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Action indie game Metal Unit focuses on combat-led play and launched in 2021. Developed by JellySnow Studio and published by NEOWIZ, it lists 2,041 Steam reviews with a mixed rating and an initial price of $14.99.
Overview
Metal Unit is a 2021 Action game developed by JellySnow Studio and published by NEOWIZ. On Steam it has gathered 2,050 player reviews, 83% of them positive, which counts as a mostly positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $15. The pairing of developer JellySnow Studio with publisher NEOWIZ 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 80,000 to 187,000 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 Unit can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
2,050
Positive
83%
Steam appid
1173200
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.080K to 187K
units (median: 133K)
≈ $685K to $1.6M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2021 | +15 |
| price_$15 | 0 |
| positive_83% | 0 |
| final NB | 65 |
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 Unit at roughly 80,000 to 187,000 copies, with a median around 133,000, derived from its 2,050 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $1.1M 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
9 observed days · window low $2.99Across 9 observed UTC days from 2026-07-15 to 2026-07-23, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $2.99 to $2.99. The tracked-window low was $2.99 on 2026-07-15.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
Affiliate disclosure- GOG.com -80%$2.99 Buy
- Steam reference$14.99 Buy
- Green Man Gaming$14.99 Buy
- Humble Store$14.99 Buy
- Fanatical
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Platforms
windows
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Metal Unit sold?
- indielist estimates Metal Unit has sold between 79,950 and 186,550 units (median 133,250), derived from its 2,050 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Metal Unit?
- Metal Unit was developed by JellySnow Studio and published by NEOWIZ.
- Who published Metal Unit?
- Metal Unit was published by NEOWIZ, developed by JellySnow Studio. See NEOWIZ's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Metal Unit released?
- Metal Unit was released in 2021.
- How many reviews does Metal Unit have on Steam?
- Metal Unit has 2,050 Steam reviews, of which 83% are positive.
- Is Metal Unit worth playing?
- Steam players rate Metal Unit 83% positive across 2,050 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 Metal Unit 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, JellySnow Studio's other releases and NEOWIZ's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Metal Unit 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 Unit 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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