METAL SLUG 3
Short description
“METAL SLUG 3”, the masterpiece in SNK’s emblematic 2D run & gun action shooting game series, still continues to fascinate millions of fans worldwide to this day for its intricate dot-pixel graphics, and simple and intuitive game controls, heads out to the Steam gaming platform!
- Developer
- Dotemu, SNK CORPORATION
- Publisher
- SNK CORPORATION
- Release
- Fri, Feb 14, 2014
- Price
$7.99
$1.59
80%
best price ever- Reviews
- 6,888
- Positive
- 90%
- Followers
- 19,763
- Owners (estimated)
- 1M – 2M
- Concurrent players
- 17
- 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 disagree, so the band is widened to cover both rather than picking a favourite. Multiplied by $7.41, the average price these copies actually sold for — weighted from the price history rather than taken from the $7.99 launch price. That is 7% below list price on average. Before Steam's cut, VAT and refunds. How these numbers are calculated.
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Media
History
6 data points since Aug 10, 2026. Gaps mean nothing changed — the value carries forward.
The revenue curve is an estimate, not a measurement. It is the only calculated series here: each interval takes the review growth of that period, multiplies it by the sales-per-review factor and by the price actually charged at the time, and adds the result to the running total. That is why it climbs more slowly through discount periods than the review curve next to it. The last point is the same figure quoted above — gross, before Steam's cut, VAT and refunds. How these numbers are calculated.
The blurred area is the rest of the history. 297 further data points reach back to Jan 1, 2014 — your plan shows the last 90 days of it. How far each series in particular reaches is written on its own chart; not every one of them goes back that far. The shape in the blurred area is decoration, not data: the figures are not in this page at all. Plus unlocks the complete series.
Lowest recorded price: $1.59 on Nov 6, 2024. That is the current price.
Similar games that found an audience
Games sharing at least 3 of this title's leading tags, with enough reviews to have gone somewhere. Ranked by how much they overlap, not by how big they are. − missing and + extra mark the tags each one does not share with METAL SLUG 3. Studio counts the titles that developer has released — the closest thing to production scale that public data allows. It is not a budget, and nobody publishes those.
| Image | Name | Studio | Shared | Tag difference | Price | Reviews | Positive | Released | Revenue (estimated) |
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PAC-MAN Championship Edition DX+ | Mine Loader Software Co., Ltd. first game | 4 | − Co-op − Side Scroller + Score Attack + Remake | $9.99 | 4,955 | 96% | Tue, Sep 24, 2013 | $2m $1.8m – $3.6m |
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METAL SLUG | Dotemu 42 titles | 4 | − Classic − Co-op + 2D + Shoot 'Em Up | $7.99 | 4,390 | 90% | Thu, Jun 25, 2015 | $1.5m $1.5m – $2.5m |
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METAL SLUG X | Dotemu 42 titles +1 | 4 | − Side Scroller − Retro + Shoot 'Em Up + 2D | $7.99 | 3,132 | 88% | Thu, Oct 02, 2014 | $1.5m $1.5m – $1.8m |
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Cowabunga Collection | Digital Eclipse 24 titles | 4 | − Classic − Side Scroller + 2D Fighter + Platformer | $39.99 | 781 | 88% | Tue, Aug 30, 2022 | $1.3m $738k – $1.8m |
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ARCADE GAME SERIES: DIG DUG | BANDAI NAMCO Studios Inc. 18 titles | 4 | − Co-op − Side Scroller + 2D + 1980s | $3.99 | 534 | 92% | Tue, Apr 19, 2016 | $87k $38k – $720k |
There are more like this. Your plan shows the 5 closest neighbours; Plus and Pro show up to 100 — enough to see the shape of a niche instead of a sample of it.