TINY METAL
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Action indie game TINY METAL launched in 2017 from developer AREA 35 Inc. Published by Sony Music Entertainment Japan’s UNTIES label, it has 265 Steam reviews listed as mixed and carried an initial price of $24.99.
Overview
TINY METAL is a 2017 Action game developed by AREA 35, Inc. and published by Sony Music Entertainment (Japan) Inc. / UNTIES. On Steam it has gathered 265 player reviews, 71% of them positive, which counts as a mixed-to-positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on mac, windows, and launched at $25. The pairing of developer AREA 35, Inc. with publisher Sony Music Entertainment (Japan) Inc. / UNTIES 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 14,000 to 32,000 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, TINY METAL can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
265
Positive
71%
Steam appid
751500
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.014K to 32K
units (median: 23K)
≈ $193K to $450K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2017 | +30 |
| price_$25 | +5 |
| positive_71% | 0 |
| final NB | 85 |
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 TINY METAL at roughly 14,000 to 32,000 copies, with a median around 23,000, derived from its 265 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $322K 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
1 observed day · window low $24.99Across 1 observed UTC day from 2026-09-06 to 2026-09-06, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $24.99 to $24.99. The tracked-window low was $24.99 on 2026-09-06.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
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Platforms
macwindows
Genres
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has TINY METAL sold?
- indielist estimates TINY METAL has sold between 13,515 and 31,535 units (median 22,525), derived from its 265 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed TINY METAL?
- TINY METAL was developed by AREA 35, Inc. and published by Sony Music Entertainment (Japan) Inc. / UNTIES.
- Who published TINY METAL?
- TINY METAL was published by Sony Music Entertainment (Japan) Inc. / UNTIES, developed by AREA 35, Inc.. See Sony Music Entertainment (Japan) Inc. / UNTIES's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was TINY METAL released?
- TINY METAL was released in 2017.
- How many reviews does TINY METAL have on Steam?
- TINY METAL has 265 Steam reviews, of which 71% are positive.
- Is TINY METAL worth playing?
- Steam players rate TINY METAL 71% positive across 265 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 TINY 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, AREA 35, Inc.'s other releases and Sony Music Entertainment (Japan) Inc. / UNTIES's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where TINY 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 TINY 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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