TINY METAL

TINY METAL

Skip · Multiplayer · 2017

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

SKIP IT.

It scores 24, under the fair line, at $24.99.

Length
11.4h
Value
$2.19/hr
Reviews
71% positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
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Length
11.4h
typical playtime (HowLongToBeat)
$/hr
$2.19
price ÷ typical playtime
Price
$24.99
as of Oct 1
Reviews
71%
290 reviews, as of Sep 27
Metacritic
68
critic score
Players
10K
owners, SteamSpy estimate
Released
2017

Minimum on the Steam store: 3 GB of memory, ATI Radeon HD 5770 or NVIDIA GeForce GTS450 with 1GB VRAM, 2 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.

Craft unique strategies and outmaneuver your foes in TINY METAL, a turn-based Japanese wargame! With new tactical options, you will command over 16 tactically diverse units, flank, assault, deploy heroes from orbital dropships, and focus the firepower of multiple units to even out otherwise disastrous odds.
Description from the Steam store page.

What drives the score

How to read this

Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work

Holding it back
Reviews71% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
Reach10K+ owners
How many own it and play it, by SteamSpy's estimates (an old snapshot), the biggest driver for a game with no ending
For context
Value$2.19/hr
Price per hour of game. This genre scores on player counts instead
Length11 hours
Typical playtime on HowLongToBeat. Endless games score on players, so hours stay out of it
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds0 of 87 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

The value story

It has never been cheaper than $6.24. That was June 2026. Its cuts run 50 percent off as a rule. There have been 41 in the 9 years tracked, about 8 weeks apart.

It is pricier than 93 percent of its genre. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. Unity of Command II ($29.99, scores 51) and Dead Age ($14.99, scores 57) both outscore it.

The drop-off

80% start to 1% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

No achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements

Players

2 players online when we last checked, on Sep 29, 03:50 UTC.

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

Cite this score

BANG Score badge
TINY METAL scores 24/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/751500/tiny-metal
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Reviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 27, price as of Oct 1.

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Critics vs players+3
Critics
68
Players
71
Critics and players agree on this one.
Metacritic critics · 290 Steam player reviews

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperAREA 35, Inc.
PublisherSony Music Entertainment (Japan) Inc. / UNTIES
GenreMultiplayer
Released2017
Achievements14