How many copies has Metal Thunder sold?

indielist estimates Metal Thunder has sold between 16,020 and 37,380 units (median 26,700), derived from its 534 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.

Who developed Metal Thunder?

Metal Thunder was developed by Dumbbell Games and published by Dumbbell Games.

Who published Metal Thunder?

Metal Thunder was published by Dumbbell Games, developed by Dumbbell Games. See Dumbbell Games's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.

When was Metal Thunder released?

Metal Thunder was released in 2024.

How many reviews does Metal Thunder have on Steam?

Metal Thunder has 534 Steam reviews, of which 78% are positive.

Is Metal Thunder worth playing?

Steam players rate Metal Thunder 78% positive across 534 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.

Metal Thunder

Nov 1, 2024 Action $10.99

Developer Dumbbell Games Publisher Dumbbell Games

Profile updated Jul 2026

Action-focused indie game Metal Thunder launched in 2024 from developer and publisher dumbbell-games. It has 477 Steam reviews listed at 0% positive with a mixed label, and its $10.99 launch price puts it near the budget range.

Metal Thunder is a 2024 Action game developed by Dumbbell Games and published by Dumbbell Games. On Steam it has gathered 534 player reviews, 78% of them positive, which counts as a mostly positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on mac, windows, and launched at $11. The pairing of developer Dumbbell Games with publisher Dumbbell Games 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 16,000 to 37,000 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, Metal Thunder can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.

Reviews

534

Positive

78%

Steam appid

3091340

Engine

Unknown

Players (snapshot)

Unavailable

Sales estimate

v1.0

16K to 37K

units (median: 27K)

≈ $101K to $235K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

16K median 37K

+ How is this calculated?

534 reviews × NB(50) = 26,700 median units

Factor	Adjustment
base	+50
year_2024	0
price_$11	0
positive_78%	0
final NB	50

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 Metal Thunder at roughly 16,000 to 37,000 copies, with a median around 27,000, derived from its 534 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $168K 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

8 observed days · window low $7.69

Across 8 observed UTC days from 2026-07-15 to 2026-07-22, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $7.69 to $10.99. The tracked-window low was $7.69 on 2026-07-22.

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Platforms

macwindows

Genres

Action CasualIndieSimulation StrategyEarly Access

Frequently asked questions

How many copies has Metal Thunder sold?: indielist estimates Metal Thunder has sold between 16,020 and 37,380 units (median 26,700), derived from its 534 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
Who developed Metal Thunder?: Metal Thunder was developed by Dumbbell Games and published by Dumbbell Games.
Who published Metal Thunder?: Metal Thunder was published by Dumbbell Games, developed by Dumbbell Games. See Dumbbell Games's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
When was Metal Thunder released?: Metal Thunder was released in 2024.
How many reviews does Metal Thunder have on Steam?: Metal Thunder has 534 Steam reviews, of which 78% are positive.
Is Metal Thunder worth playing?: Steam players rate Metal Thunder 78% positive across 534 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.

Players looking for games like Metal Thunder can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Action titles such as Rust, Terraria, Phasmophobia, ARK: Survival Evolved, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Dumbbell Games's other releases and Dumbbell Games's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Metal Thunder 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 Metal Thunder 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.

Matched from shared Steam tags and primary genre. Review count breaks ties; it is not a personal recommendation score.