METAL SLUG Review Summary
Last updated: 2026-06-14
- Pixel art praised
- Fun co-op mode
- Classic gameplay praised
- Poor port quality
- Frequent frame rate drops
- Extremely short game length
Emotions
Archetypes
Hardware
Windows <8GB VRAMmixed
Core metrics
Core business metrics
Steam review mix, revenue model, and refund leakage.
Steam review stats
- Steam rating
- Very Positive (8/10)
- Total reviews
- 5,096
- Positive
- 4,54089.1%
- Negative
- 55610.9%
Sales estimations
- Estimated sales count
- 382,342
- Estimated revenue
- $3,054,913
- Game price
- $8
- Review → sale ratio
Refund leakage
- Refund-intent reviews
- 709.02%
- Estimated copies lost
- 5,252
- Estimated revenue lost
- $41,963
Review pace
Statistical analysis
Sentiment vs playtime and velocity signals.
Sentiment × Playtime
review counts| Bucket | Neg | Pos |
|---|---|---|
| ≤ 2h playtime | 709% Avg playtime 0.8h | 27835.8% Avg playtime 1h |
| > 2h playtime | 283.6% Avg playtime 7.7h | 40051.5% Avg playtime 10.2h |
Velocity
review pace| Avg/day | 0.2 rev/day |
| Last 30d | 1.6 rev/day |
| Quarterly | 11.6 rev/qtr |
| Days covered | 4,006.2 days |
Audience segments
Who is reviewing
Buyer mixes, lifecycle phase, and Steam Deck signals.
Buyer vs key activations
Share of review volume
776 total
Organic purchasers67587.0%
Voted up: 88%
Key activations10113.0%
Voted up: 82%
Honeymoon vs endgame
Based on hours played
775 total
First impression0-2h41954.0%
Voted up: 81%
Mid game2-10h27435.3%
Voted up: 95%
Late game10-20h516.57%
Voted up: 94%
Endgame20h+313.99%
Voted up: 94%
Steam Deck monitor
Deck vs global sentiment
Deck satisfaction
100.0%
Global baseline 87.4%
20 Steam Deck-tagged reviews out of 5,096 total.