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Action indie game Tears of Metal launched in 2026 from Paper Cult, with the developer also listed as publisher. Its Steam page shows 533 reviews at 0% positive with a mixed label, and an initial price of $24.99.
Overview
Tears of Metal is a 2026 Action game developed by Paper Cult and published by Paper Cult. On Steam it has gathered 2,311 player reviews, 86% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $25. The pairing of developer Paper Cult with publisher Paper Cult is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Action projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 76,000 to 178,000 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, Tears of Metal can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
2,311
Positive
86%
Steam appid
1913120
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.076K to 178K
units (median: 127K)
≈ $1.1M to $2.5M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2026 | -10 |
| price_$25 | +5 |
| positive_86% | +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 Tears of Metal at roughly 76,000 to 178,000 copies, with a median around 127,000, derived from its 2,311 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $1.8M 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
7 observed days · window low $22.49Across 7 observed UTC days from 2026-07-26 to 2026-09-06, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $22.49 to $24.99. The tracked-window low was $22.49 on 2026-07-26.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
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- GOG.com
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Platforms
windows
Genres
ActionIndieEarly Access
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Tears of Metal sold?
- indielist estimates Tears of Metal has sold between 76,263 and 177,947 units (median 127,105), derived from its 2,311 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Tears of Metal?
- Tears of Metal was developed by Paper Cult and published by Paper Cult.
- Who published Tears of Metal?
- Tears of Metal was published by Paper Cult, developed by Paper Cult. See Paper Cult's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Tears of Metal released?
- Tears of Metal was released in 2026.
- How many reviews does Tears of Metal have on Steam?
- Tears of Metal has 2,311 Steam reviews, of which 86% are positive.
- Is Tears of Metal worth playing?
- Steam players rate Tears of Metal 86% positive across 2,311 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 Tears of Metal can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Action titles such as Terraria, Rust, Phasmophobia, The Forest, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Paper Cult's other releases and Paper Cult's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Tears of Metal 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 Tears of Metal page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Action 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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