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16bit Trader

Forever Entertainment S. A. · 2015-06-04

Steam

AdventureCasualIndieRPGSimulationStrategy

Modes: Single player

Releases: Jun 04, 2015 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Jun 04, 2015 (Mac), Jun 04, 2015 (Linux), Jul 31, 2012 (iOS)

Take revenge on your father’s killer!

16bit Trader is an Adventure, Casual, Indie, RPG game priced at $0.83 and released in 2015, estimated to have 100,000 .. 200,000 owners and Mixed reviews (43% of 1786 reviews).

11
playing now
43%
positive of 1.8k reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
40/100
IGDB user rating (4 ratings)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$0.83
steam price (US)

11 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 15:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 11 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 16 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity up 7% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 10% of 28,771 Adventure games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-30

Estimated sales: 45k–107k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 1,786 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.28 at GamersGate (2023-01-11)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $2.99 · on sale 32 of 55 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
9920172026Week of 2017-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-11-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2017-12-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2018-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2018-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2019-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 2 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

1632026-09-15 00:00 — 6 players2026-09-16 08:00 — 6 players2026-09-17 16:00 — 8 players2026-09-18 23:00 — 8 players2026-09-20 07:00 — 3 players2026-09-21 14:00 — 8 players2026-09-22 22:00 — 7 players2026-09-24 05:00 — 8 players2026-09-25 13:00 — 7 players2026-09-26 20:00 — 4 players2026-09-28 04:00 — 7 players2026-09-29 11:00 — 11 players2026-09-30 19:00 — 8 players2026-10-02 02:00 — 13 players2026-10-03 10:00 — 8 players2026-10-04 18:00 — 10 players2026-10-06 02:00 — 8 players2026-10-07 09:00 — 6 players2026-10-08 17:00 — 9 players2026-10-10 00:00 — 6 players2026-10-11 08:00 — 6 players2026-10-12 15:00 — 8 players2026-10-13 23:00 — 7 players2026-10-14 15:00 — 11 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
1500Jun 2015Aug 2026Jun 2015 — avg 2 · peak 19Oct 2015 — avg 26 · peak 205Feb 2016 — avg 127 · peak 957Jun 2016 — avg 45 · peak 442Oct 2016 — avg 16 · peak 141Feb 2017 — avg 7 · peak 155Jun 2017 — avg 7 · peak 19Oct 2017 — avg 4 · peak 24Feb 2018 — avg 2 · peak 10Jun 2018 — avg 6 · peak 52Oct 2018 — avg 2 · peak 13Feb 2019 — avg 1 · peak 7Jun 2019 — avg 1 · peak 39Oct 2019 — avg 1 · peak 3Feb 2020 — avg 1 · peak 5Jun 2020 — avg 1 · peak 5Nov 2020 — avg 4 · peak 31Mar 2021 — avg 1 · peak 4Aug 2021 — avg 1 · peak 4Jan 2022 — avg 6 · peak 199May 2022 — avg 16 · peak 431Sep 2022 — avg 5 · peak 10Jan 2023 — avg 28 · peak 908May 2023 — avg 6 · peak 132Sep 2023 — avg 4 · peak 7Jan 2024 — avg 6 · peak 14May 2024 — avg 8 · peak 68Sep 2024 — avg 9 · peak 14Jan 2025 — avg 10 · peak 16May 2025 — avg 8 · peak 13Sep 2025 — avg 11 · peak 160Jan 2026 — avg 9 · peak 15May 2026 — avg 8 · peak 14Aug 2026 — avg 12 · peak 108
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$2.99$0.282015-06-042026-08-242015-06-04 — best price $1.492016-01-04 — best price $2.992016-11-21 — best price $1.492017-06-05 — best price $2.992017-11-22 — best price $0.502018-02-15 — best price $0.502018-05-17 — best price $2.992018-08-02 — best price $2.992018-11-09 — best price $2.992019-01-21 — best price $0.502019-04-11 — best price $0.512019-10-03 — best price $0.382019-12-12 — best price $0.342020-03-20 — best price $0.382020-05-25 — best price $0.382020-08-31 — best price $2.992020-12-23 — best price $0.502021-05-13 — best price $0.382021-09-20 — best price $0.502021-12-06 — best price $0.502022-03-03 — best price $2.992022-07-11 — best price $2.992022-10-31 — best price $2.992023-01-05 — best price $2.992023-04-17 — best price $0.382023-07-13 — best price $2.992023-10-09 — best price $0.282024-03-11 — best price $2.992024-05-02 — best price $0.632024-07-11 — best price $2.992024-09-16 — best price $2.992024-12-04 — best price $2.992025-01-31 — best price $0.392025-06-02 — best price $2.992025-09-03 — best price $2.992026-02-23 — best price $2.992026-05-28 — best price $0.842026-06-15 — best price $2.292026-07-23 — best price $2.292026-08-24 — best price $0.83
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

16
achievements tracked
6.6%
earned "Sea Dog"
5.9%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam Trading CardsSteam CloudSteam LeaderboardsFamily Sharing

4 supported languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)1,46843%16

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

Player tags

RPGIndieCasualEconomyTradingStrategyAdventureSimulationSingleplayer

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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