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Full Metal Sergeant is a budget indie game from developer-publisher carloc, released in 2023 at an initial price of $9.99. With 128 Steam reviews and 87% positive sentiment, it fits an underrated indie profile with very positive user feedback.
Overview
Full Metal Sergeant is a 2023 Indie game developed by CarloC and published by CarloC. On Steam it has gathered 129 player reviews, 87% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Indie category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $10. The pairing of developer CarloC with publisher CarloC is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Indie projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 4,000 to 10,000 units, with the full Boxleiter factor breakdown shown on this page rather than a single black-box figure. Within indielist's catalog of indie games mapped to their studios, publishers, and funding, Full Metal Sergeant can be compared against similar Indie titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
129
Positive
87%
Steam appid
1698350
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.04K to 10K
units (median: 7K)
≈ $24K to $57K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2023 | 0 |
| price_$10 | -5 |
| positive_87% | +10 |
| final NB | 55 |
Heuristic display range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].
Methodology & limitations
Sales estimates use an additive Boxleiter-derived heuristic against public Steam review
counts. They are not authoritative sales data, and the fixed display range
is not a statistically validated confidence interval. Actual results may fall outside it,
especially for deeply discounted or bundle-heavy titles. Algorithm version
v1.0. Read the exact method and validation status.
indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for Full Metal Sergeant at roughly 4,000 to 10,000 copies, with a median around 7,000, derived from its 129 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $40K in net revenue after Steam's 30% cut, regional pricing, and refunds. Unlike black-box trackers, the full calculation is shown on this page: a base review-to-sales multiplier is adjusted for release year, launch price, review sentiment, studio size, and genre, and every adjustment is listed so developers, publishers, and investors can audit exactly how the figure was reached. The range itself reflects genuine uncertainty — review-to-sales ratios vary widely between games — so indielist publishes a low, median, and high band rather than a false-precision single number, and treats free-to-play, heavily discounted, and bundle-distributed titles as having wider error margins still.
Price history
12 observed days · window low $4.99Across 12 observed UTC days from 2026-07-17 to 2026-09-03, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $4.99 to $9.99. The tracked-window low was $4.99 on 2026-07-17.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
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Platforms
windows
Genres
IndieSimulationStrategy
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Full Metal Sergeant sold?
- indielist estimates Full Metal Sergeant has sold between 4,257 and 9,933 units (median 7,095), derived from its 129 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Full Metal Sergeant?
- Full Metal Sergeant was developed by CarloC and published by CarloC.
- Who published Full Metal Sergeant?
- Full Metal Sergeant was published by CarloC, developed by CarloC. See CarloC's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Full Metal Sergeant released?
- Full Metal Sergeant was released in 2023.
- How many reviews does Full Metal Sergeant have on Steam?
- Full Metal Sergeant has 129 Steam reviews, of which 87% are positive.
- Is Full Metal Sergeant worth playing?
- Steam players rate Full Metal Sergeant 87% positive across 129 reviews. indielist doesn't score games editorially; it surfaces public review sentiment and a white-box sales estimate so you can judge reception and reach yourself.
Ecosystem
Players looking for games like Full Metal Sergeant can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Indie titles such as Stardew Valley, Euro Truck Simulator 2, Project Zomboid, Undertale, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, CarloC's other releases and CarloC's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Full Metal Sergeant sits among a studio's body of work and how its publisher's portfolio performs. Because indielist maps studios, publishers, games, and funding into one connected graph, the same Full Metal Sergeant page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Indie game, developers studying how comparable projects were positioned and what they sold, and investors tracing which teams and labels are active in the space. A machine-readable markdown mirror of this page is published at the same path with a .md suffix for AI assistants, and its review, price, and sales-estimate figures are refreshed on a schedule rather than frozen at launch.
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