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Metal Thunder

Metal Thunder

Command the legendary gunship in a high-octane action-roguelite! Engage insurgents with devastating firepower in ever-changing missions. Upgrade your arsenal, adapt to dynamic challenges, and survive relentless waves of enemies. Every run offers new tactics and chaos as you dominate the skies.

Released Nov 1, 2024 Developer Dumbbell Games Platforms Windows · Mac Early AccessVehicular CombatFlightMilitaryTop-Down Shooter
View on Steam ↗ $10.99 (US · as of 2026-09-26)

What players say

Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-25.

76.3%positive611 reviews
Recommended · 5 found this helpful

“Look, it's basically a $10 game. It's still in the works, so it's only 1 mode so far. The creator says zombies will be a thing soon. Fingers crossed. Good mind numbing game, gets dicey but gun go BURRRRRRRRRR. Me like.”

— a player, Steam review · 42 hrs played
Recommended · 2 found this helpful

“Its a lovely game to spend time in it, I like it”

— a player, Steam review · 2 hrs played
Not recommended · 20 found this helpful

“Instead of following the game’s planned progression, the dev team keeps focusing on nerfing player power and slowing progress through currency and upgrade restrictions. In this recent shooting patch, the only change that’s strongly noticeable is the update to game currency—gun…”

— a player, Steam review · 91 hrs played
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Player activity

Monthly average concurrent players. Live data self-collected from the Steam API · history through 2026-08 via SteamCharts.

405all-time peak
0 50 100 2025 2026 No data collected for this period 82 avg · May 2025

Achievement stats

Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-09-26.

20achievements
14.7%median completion
3.4%rarest: Protector Supreme
95.0% of players 90.0% of players 85.5% of players 76.1% of players 66.3% of players 49.3% of players 36.9% of players 33.4% of players 29.7% of players 28.2% of players 14.7% of players 13.7% of players 13.5% of players 11.2% of players 9.3% of players 8.9% of players 7.7% of players 6.2% of players 4.7% of players 3.4% of players 95.0% 0% most earned rarest
Almost everyone has
95.0%Maiden Flight — [Survival] Take to the skies on your first sortie.
90.0%Rookie Reaper — [Survival] Achieve 100 kills in a single sortie.
85.5%Reality Check — [Survival] Every victory starts with a loss. This was yours
Rarest badges of honor
3.4%Protector Supreme — [Survival] Complete all operations without taking any base damage.
4.7%Keeper of Purity — [Survival] Complete Operation Faithkeeper without taking any base damage.
6.2%Eye of the Storm — [Survival] Complete Operation Thunderfield without taking any base damage.

Price tracking

US-region pricing (USD), sampled twice daily by our own tracker since 2026-09-26. Steam prices vary by region — always confirm your local price on Steam.

$10.99current · sampled 2026-09-26 21:12 UTC
$10.99lowest since tracking began2026-09-26
US10.99 USD
EU10.79 EUR
UK9.29 GBP
Australia16.25 AUD
Canada13.99 CAD
Japan599 JPY
Brazil18.00 BRL
China20.00 CNY

Regional prices at last sample, in local currency — Steam sets each region's price independently.

China≈$3.0 Brazil Japan Canada US Australia EU UK≈$12

Cheapest → most expensive, converted to USD at ECB reference rates (2026-09-25). Relative comparison only.

Latest official news

Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.

Jul 22, 2026
Hotfix v0.9.808

Hotfix v0.9.808 Hey Commanders, Fresh batch, straight from your reports: - Units freezing and taking turns to move in crowded battles is fixed. TrashPanda's repro cracked this one for the modifier pla

Jul 21, 2026
Hotfix v0.9.807

Hey Commanders, Remember when I said more patches are on the way? I ran a deep bug-hunt sweep through Survival, and between this and your reports this one turned into a big pile of fixes. Grab a coffe

Jul 20, 2026
Hotfix v0.9.806

Hey Commanders, So, funny story. Someone on Discord showed me a screenshot of 550 million credits earned in half an hour and asked if that was normal. It was not. Turns out the economy had a few holes

Jul 20, 2026
Hotfix v0.9.805

Hey Commanders, Quick SITREP: another day, another batch of bugs blasted. Here's what got fixed: - Units taking turns to move when the map gets crowded. A recent patch accidentally choked the pathfind

Jul 19, 2026
Hotfix v0.9.804

Hey Commanders, Quick SITREP: went through your reports from the last few days and blasted a solid batch of bugs. Here's what got fixed: - Base "capturing itself" with zero enemies in sight, plus the

Screenshots

Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.

Facts & details

From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-09-25.

GenresAction, Casual, Indie, Simulation, Strategy, Early Access
Player tagsEarly Access · Vehicular Combat · Flight · Military · Top-Down Shooter · Realistic · Wargame · Simulation · Cold War · Modern · Action Roguelike · Roguelite (Steam store community voting)
FeaturesSingle-player · Steam Achievements · Steam Trading Cards · Partial Controller Support · Steam Cloud · Steam Leaderboards · Family Sharing
LanguagesEnglish * , French * , German * , Spanish - Spain * , Japanese * , Polish * , Portuguese - Brazil * , Portuguese - Portugal * , Simplified Chinese * , Spanish - Latin America * , Traditional Chinese * , Turkish * , Itali…
Achievements20
Official sitehttp://www.dumbbellgames.com/
Minimum system requirements (PC)

Minimum: OS: Windows (64-bit) 10 Processor: Intel Core i5-2500 @ 3,3 GHz (4 CPUs) Memory: 8 GB RAM Graphics: NVidia GeForce GTX 670 DirectX: Version 11 Storage: 6 GB available space