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Metal: Hellsinger cover art

Metal: Hellsinger

The Outsiders · Funcom · 2022-09-15

SteamGOGPlayStation StoreMicrosoft Store

ActionAdventure

Modes: Single player

Releases: Sep 15, 2022 (Xbox Series X|S), Sep 15, 2022 (PlayStation 5), Sep 15, 2022 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Dec 08, 2022 (PlayStation 4), Dec 08, 2022 (Xbox One)

Slay to the rhythm of metal and vengeance on an infernal journey through the eight Hells. Make them fear the beat. Metal: Hellsinger is a rhythm FPS bursting with demons, badass weapons, and heavy metal music.

27
playing now
96%
positive of 17k reviews
Overwhelmingly Positive
steam rating
1,000,000–2,000,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
86/100
critic score (6 outlets, IGDB)
77/100
IGDB user rating (87 ratings)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$29.99
steam price (US)

27 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 01:00 UTC (census sample)

Metal: Hellsinger is a rhythmic first-person shooter video game developed by Swedish developer The Outsiders for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S. It is published by Funcom and was released on September 15, 2022.

Health check

Healthy
  • · 27 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 510 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~64/week).
  • · Review velocity down 35% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (3,584 reviews).
  • · Top 8% of 10,791 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-28

Estimated sales: 340k–765k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 16,991 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

Microsoft Store$0.00
lowest across shops (ITAD)$11.09-63%
GOG$29.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $4.50 at PlanetPlay (2026-04-28) · bundled 4×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $29.99 · on sale 80 of 113 observed days · at its all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
3.5k3.5k20222026Week of 2022-09-01: 3,509 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 75 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 777 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 20 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 2,010 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 30 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 626 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 29 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 592 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 34 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 203 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 433 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 19 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 341 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 138 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 190 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 396 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 21 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 286 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 18 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 208 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 156 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 305 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 490 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 30 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 305 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 129 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 155 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 179 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 30 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 154 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 151 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 167 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 109 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 112 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 95 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 166 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 184 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 117 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 68 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 150 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 99 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 148 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 87 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 94 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 67 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 78 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 90 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 66 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 73 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 64 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 49 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 69 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 47 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 62 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 51 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 65 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 30 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 5 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

4462026-08-06 21:00 — 29 players2026-08-07 05:00 — 10 players2026-08-07 13:00 — 21 players2026-08-07 21:00 — 25 players2026-08-08 05:00 — 14 players2026-08-08 13:00 — 18 players2026-08-08 21:00 — 24 players2026-08-09 05:00 — 14 players2026-08-09 13:00 — 26 players2026-08-09 21:00 — 44 players2026-08-10 05:00 — 9 players2026-08-10 14:00 — 19 players2026-08-10 22:00 — 21 players2026-08-11 06:00 — 8 players2026-08-11 14:00 — 24 players2026-08-12 21:00 — 26 players2026-08-14 05:00 — 11 players2026-08-15 13:00 — 22 players2026-08-16 21:00 — 38 players2026-08-18 04:00 — 15 players2026-08-19 12:00 — 13 players2026-08-20 19:00 — 29 players2026-08-22 03:00 — 22 players2026-08-23 10:00 — 15 players2026-08-24 18:00 — 25 players2026-08-26 02:00 — 18 players2026-08-27 10:00 — 11 players2026-08-28 17:00 — 20 players2026-08-30 01:00 — 27 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$29.99$5.212022-09-152026-08-302022-09-15 — best price $29.992023-03-23 — best price $29.992023-09-25 — best price $29.992023-11-20 — best price $10.192023-12-21 — best price $11.992024-02-26 — best price $12.002024-04-01 — best price $11.992024-05-03 — best price $11.992024-06-03 — best price $12.002024-07-11 — best price $29.992024-08-15 — best price $11.992024-10-10 — best price $29.992024-11-21 — best price $9.892024-12-13 — best price $9.902025-02-03 — best price $12.002025-03-31 — best price $9.902025-05-24 — best price $29.992025-07-11 — best price $29.992025-08-09 — best price $29.992025-09-23 — best price $7.492025-10-24 — best price $22.672025-11-19 — best price $12.002025-12-06 — best price $29.992026-01-05 — best price $22.672026-01-26 — best price $11.992026-03-05 — best price $6.152026-03-26 — best price $29.992026-04-10 — best price $7.992026-04-29 — best price $29.992026-05-31 — best price $29.992026-07-01 — best price $29.992026-07-31 — best price $7.992026-08-20 — best price $29.992026-08-30 — best price $29.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

90322026-05-30 — 51 pageviews2026-06-02 — 43 pageviews2026-06-05 — 54 pageviews2026-06-08 — 58 pageviews2026-06-11 — 45 pageviews2026-06-14 — 54 pageviews2026-06-17 — 34 pageviews2026-06-20 — 41 pageviews2026-06-23 — 46 pageviews2026-06-26 — 47 pageviews2026-06-29 — 55 pageviews2026-07-02 — 69 pageviews2026-07-05 — 77 pageviews2026-07-08 — 49 pageviews2026-07-11 — 68 pageviews2026-07-14 — 62 pageviews2026-07-17 — 48 pageviews2026-07-20 — 57 pageviews2026-07-23 — 66 pageviews2026-07-26 — 58 pageviews2026-07-29 — 52 pageviews2026-08-01 — 59 pageviews2026-08-04 — 56 pageviews2026-08-07 — 50 pageviews2026-08-10 — 38 pageviews2026-08-13 — 49 pageviews2026-08-16 — 45 pageviews2026-08-19 — 45 pageviews2026-08-22 — 51 pageviews2026-08-25 — 61 pageviews2026-08-27 — 45 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

28
achievements tracked
92.9%
earned "Kill Your Demons"
38.5%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsPartial Controller SupportSteam CloudFamily Sharing3 DLC

11 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Xbox Series, Windows (Xbox)25,0718%28
Steam (Steam)16,26212%28
PS5 (PlayStation)12,71537%29
Xbox One (Xbox)5,59821%28
PS4 (PlayStation)3,77229%29
PS4 (PlayStation)2,73245%29

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

Player tags

3DFPSMusicActionCombatDemonsRhythmShooterAdventureAtmospheric

Census log

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

Recent updates

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Similarity via IGDB.

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