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Metal Dead

Walk Thru Walls Studios · 2014-10-06

Steam

AdventureIndie

Modes: Single player

Releases: Sep 01, 2014 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

A hilariously terrifying adventure filled with laughs, blood, insanity, and of course... hordes of the undead.

Metal Dead is a 2014 Adventure and Indie title priced at $2.49, with an estimated 20,000 to 50,000 owners and Very Positive sentiment (86% of 506 reviews).

0
playing now
86%
positive of 506 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
80/100
IGDB user rating (3 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$2.49
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 22:00 UTC (census sample)

Metal Dead is a point-and-click adventure game created by independent Australian developer Walk Thru Walls Studios and released online on December 19, 2011. It was built with the Adventure Game Studio engine.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 9 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 31% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 19% of 28,763 Adventure games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-31

Estimated sales: 13k–30k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 506 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.99 at Desura (2012-10-28) · bundled 4×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $4.99 · on sale 7 of 14 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
121220152026Week of 2015-07-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2015-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-08-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2015-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2015-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2015-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2015-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2015-11-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2015-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2015-12-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2016-01-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2016-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2016-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2016-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2016-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2016-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2016-05-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2016-06-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2016-07-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2016-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2016-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2016-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2016-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-12-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2016-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2017-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-02-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2017-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2017-08-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2017-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2017-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-11-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

102026-09-15 07:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 15:00 — 0 players2026-09-17 23:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 06:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 14:00 — 0 players2026-09-21 21:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 05:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 12:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 20:00 — 0 players2026-09-27 03:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 11:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 18:00 — 0 players2026-10-01 02:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 09:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 17:00 — 0 players2026-10-05 01:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 09:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 16:00 — 0 players2026-10-09 00:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 07:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 15:00 — 0 players2026-10-12 22:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 06:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 22:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$5.40$0.992015-01-012026-08-242015-01-01 — best price $1.692015-02-24 — best price $2.492015-04-17 — best price $3.952015-06-13 — best price $2.492015-07-16 — best price $4.492015-09-12 — best price $4.992016-01-11 — best price $4.992016-04-11 — best price $2.502016-06-13 — best price $4.992016-08-01 — best price $1.572016-11-01 — best price $4.992017-01-02 — best price $4.992017-04-17 — best price $4.992017-10-16 — best price $4.992018-01-15 — best price $1.992018-09-24 — best price $4.992019-01-03 — best price $4.992019-06-17 — best price $4.992020-01-02 — best price $4.992020-07-09 — best price $4.992021-01-05 — best price $4.992021-07-08 — best price $4.992022-02-03 — best price $4.992022-10-31 — best price $4.992023-02-27 — best price $4.992024-01-04 — best price $4.992024-06-24 — best price $4.992025-01-02 — best price $4.992025-07-17 — best price $4.992026-01-05 — best price $4.992026-07-20 — best price $4.992026-08-24 — best price $2.49
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

702026-06-01 — 0 pageviews2026-06-05 — 3 pageviews2026-06-09 — 2 pageviews2026-06-13 — 1 pageviews2026-06-17 — 5 pageviews2026-06-21 — 2 pageviews2026-06-25 — 3 pageviews2026-06-29 — 1 pageviews2026-07-03 — 1 pageviews2026-07-07 — 2 pageviews2026-07-11 — 5 pageviews2026-07-15 — 7 pageviews2026-07-19 — 0 pageviews2026-07-23 — 2 pageviews2026-07-28 — 1 pageviews2026-08-01 — 3 pageviews2026-08-05 — 2 pageviews2026-08-09 — 2 pageviews2026-08-13 — 0 pageviews2026-08-17 — 2 pageviews2026-08-21 — 0 pageviews2026-08-25 — 0 pageviews2026-08-30 — 0 pageviews2026-09-03 — 3 pageviews2026-09-07 — 1 pageviews2026-09-11 — 6 pageviews2026-09-15 — 1 pageviews2026-09-19 — 0 pageviews2026-09-23 — 3 pageviews2026-09-27 — 1 pageviews2026-10-01 — 5 pageviews2026-10-05 — 1 pageviews2026-10-09 — 1 pageviews2026-10-10 — 2 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

13
achievements tracked
44.2%
earned "My First Time"
22.6%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam Trading CardsCaptions availableFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)1,07842%13

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

2DGoreBloodFunnyIndieRetroComedyHorrorViolentZombies

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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Similarity via IGDB.

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