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30XX

Batterystaple Games · 2023-08-09

Steam

ActionIndie

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative · Perspectives: Side view

Releases: Aug 09, 2023 (Nintendo Switch), Feb 17, 2021 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Jump, shoot, and slash your way through 30XX, the roguelike action platformer you can play with a friend! Explore lush, ever-changing worlds that mix precise platforming with fevered combat. Destroy fearsome Guardians. Master unique Powers. Rediscover the thousand years we've lost.

30XX is a 2023 Action and Indie game priced at $19.99, with an estimated 100,000 to 200,000 owners and Very Positive (90% of 2814 reviews).

13
playing now
90%
positive of 2.8k reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
83/100
critic score (3 outlets, IGDB)
56/100
IGDB user rating (5 ratings)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$19.99
steam price (US)

13 players in-game as of 2026-10-15 06:00 UTC (census sample)

30XX is a rogue-lite platform game from independent developer Batterystaple Games and the sequel to 20XX. It was released on Microsoft Windows via Steam early access on February 17, 2021, and in full on August 9, 2023. A Nintendo Switch release was planned on the same day, but was delayed to September 1. Like its predecessor, 30XX was inspired by the Mega Man series, but uses procedurally generated levels. The game possesses both a permadeath roguelike mode and, unlike the original, a new "Mega Mode" where the levels of the entire game are generated in advance and do not change upon death, giving players an experience more similar to the Mega Man games. The game follows the android main characters of 20XX, Nina and Ace, who awaken after a millennium to discover the world has changed irreversibly after the advent of the Synthetic Mind. The early access release of the game was positively received by critics, who called it an improvement over its predecessor.

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 13 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 169 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~21/week).
  • · Review velocity up 34% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 9% of 27,942 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 56k–127k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 2,817 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $5.99 at Steam (2024-07-15)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $19.99 · on sale 8 of 16 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
30630620212026Week of 2021-02-01: 306 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 108 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 41 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 36 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 31 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 38 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 41 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 74 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 31 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 28 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 36 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 297 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 50 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 70 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 45 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 113 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 50 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 60 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 33 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 49 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 34 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 32 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 28 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 30 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 34 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

5242026-09-15 15:00 — 14 players2026-09-17 00:00 — 22 players2026-09-18 07:00 — 4 players2026-09-19 15:00 — 26 players2026-09-20 22:00 — 30 players2026-09-22 06:00 — 26 players2026-09-23 13:00 — 20 players2026-09-24 21:00 — 28 players2026-09-26 04:00 — 49 players2026-09-27 12:00 — 23 players2026-09-28 19:00 — 27 players2026-09-30 03:00 — 41 players2026-10-01 10:00 — 11 players2026-10-02 18:00 — 32 players2026-10-04 02:00 — 52 players2026-10-05 10:00 — 15 players2026-10-06 17:00 — 22 players2026-10-08 01:00 — 42 players2026-10-09 08:00 — 11 players2026-10-10 16:00 — 27 players2026-10-11 23:00 — 34 players2026-10-13 07:00 — 16 players2026-10-14 14:00 — 12 players2026-10-15 06:00 — 13 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
25318Feb 2021Aug 2026Feb 2021 — avg 227 · peak 749Apr 2021 — avg 38 · peak 115Jun 2021 — avg 23 · peak 61Aug 2021 — avg 34 · peak 170Oct 2021 — avg 21 · peak 55Dec 2021 — avg 21 · peak 65Feb 2022 — avg 18 · peak 113Apr 2022 — avg 23 · peak 73Jun 2022 — avg 29 · peak 83Aug 2022 — avg 21 · peak 46Oct 2022 — avg 31 · peak 80Dec 2022 — avg 32 · peak 71Feb 2023 — avg 31 · peak 81Apr 2023 — avg 28 · peak 71Jun 2023 — avg 33 · peak 86Aug 2023 — avg 253 · peak 733Oct 2023 — avg 85 · peak 193Dec 2023 — avg 92 · peak 234Feb 2024 — avg 57 · peak 114Apr 2024 — avg 92 · peak 272Jun 2024 — avg 51 · peak 107Aug 2024 — avg 34 · peak 71Oct 2024 — avg 58 · peak 126Dec 2024 — avg 43 · peak 95Feb 2025 — avg 37 · peak 88Apr 2025 — avg 27 · peak 61Jun 2025 — avg 23 · peak 59Aug 2025 — avg 30 · peak 60Oct 2025 — avg 19 · peak 53Dec 2025 — avg 24 · peak 64Feb 2026 — avg 40 · peak 178Apr 2026 — avg 28 · peak 62Jun 2026 — avg 19 · peak 56Aug 2026 — avg 22 · peak 51
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$19.99$5.992021-02-172026-08-172021-02-17 — best price $17.992021-03-29 — best price $19.992021-07-15 — best price $17.992021-08-14 — best price $19.992021-10-28 — best price $16.992021-12-01 — best price $19.992022-01-27 — best price $16.992022-03-07 — best price $19.992022-06-06 — best price $16.992022-07-07 — best price $19.992022-10-20 — best price $16.992022-11-29 — best price $19.992022-12-23 — best price $16.992023-02-20 — best price $19.992023-06-05 — best price $16.992023-07-13 — best price $19.992023-10-02 — best price $15.992023-11-28 — best price $19.992023-12-21 — best price $14.992024-02-19 — best price $19.992024-04-15 — best price $13.992024-06-10 — best price $19.992024-07-15 — best price $5.992024-09-23 — best price $19.992024-11-27 — best price $11.992025-01-02 — best price $19.992025-03-13 — best price $9.992025-05-05 — best price $19.992025-08-04 — best price $9.992025-10-06 — best price $19.992025-12-18 — best price $8.992026-03-07 — best price $19.992026-04-13 — best price $7.992026-06-08 — best price $19.992026-08-13 — best price $8.992026-08-17 — best price $19.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

6092026-06-04 — 31 pageviews2026-06-08 — 37 pageviews2026-06-12 — 19 pageviews2026-06-16 — 24 pageviews2026-06-20 — 14 pageviews2026-06-24 — 21 pageviews2026-06-28 — 32 pageviews2026-07-02 — 21 pageviews2026-07-06 — 16 pageviews2026-07-10 — 23 pageviews2026-07-14 — 23 pageviews2026-07-18 — 22 pageviews2026-07-22 — 23 pageviews2026-07-26 — 19 pageviews2026-07-30 — 13 pageviews2026-08-03 — 29 pageviews2026-08-07 — 12 pageviews2026-08-11 — 24 pageviews2026-08-15 — 19 pageviews2026-08-19 — 14 pageviews2026-08-23 — 24 pageviews2026-08-27 — 15 pageviews2026-08-31 — 19 pageviews2026-09-04 — 20 pageviews2026-09-08 — 25 pageviews2026-09-12 — 20 pageviews2026-09-16 — 31 pageviews2026-09-20 — 16 pageviews2026-09-24 — 33 pageviews2026-09-28 — 24 pageviews2026-10-02 — 24 pageviews2026-10-06 — 24 pageviews2026-10-10 — 15 pageviews2026-10-13 — 11 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

50
achievements tracked
49.3%
earned "Persistence"
4.1%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerMulti-playerCo-opOnline Co-opShared/Split Screen Co-opShared/Split ScreenSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam CloudSteam Leaderboards2 DLC

11 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish - Latin America, Portuguese - Brazil, Traditional Chinese

Post-launch support: 2 DLC released, first 2021-02-17, latest 2024-09-19 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)2,0861%50
Switch (Nintendo)810%0

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

Where its players are

Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.

Player tags

2DActionSci-fiControllerPlatformerRogue-likeRogue-litePerma DeathLevel Editor2D Platformer

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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