METAL SLUG
Short description
“METAL SLUG ”, the very first title in SNK’s legendary 2D run & gun action shooting game series where all began, returns to the missions on the Steam gaming platform!
- Developer
- Dotemu
- Publisher
- SNK CORPORATION
- Release
- Thu, Jun 25, 2015
- Price
- $7.99
- Reviews
- 4,390
- Positive
- 90%
- Followers
- n/a
- Owners (estimated)
- 200K – 500K
- Concurrent players
- 13
- Genres
- Action
- Features
- Multi-player, Co-op, Online Co-op, Shared/Split Screen Co-op, Full controller support, Steam Trading Cards, Steam Leaderboards, Remote Play on Phone, Remote Play on Tablet, Remote Play on TV, Remote Play Together
- Tags
Review count and SteamSpy's owner range agree well enough to narrow the estimate down to this band. Multiplied by $7.26, the average price these copies actually sold for — weighted from the price history rather than taken from the $7.99 launch price. That is 9% below list price on average. Before Steam's cut, VAT and refunds. How these numbers are calculated.
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History
Tracking started Aug 10, 2026. Charts appear once there is more than one data point — nothing has changed since.
251 data points going back to Jun 1, 2015 lie outside the 90-day window of your plan. Plus shows the complete history.
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