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80's OVERDRIVE cover art

80's OVERDRIVE

Insane Code · 2020-11-19

SteamMicrosoft Store

IndieRacing

Modes: Single player

Releases: Dec 03, 2017 (Nintendo 3DS), Jul 27, 2022 (Xbox One), May 07, 2020 (Nintendo Switch), Nov 19, 2020 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

80's OVERDRIVE is a 2D pixelart racing game, designed to take you back in time to when 8 and 16 bit consoles and arcade games ruled the world. Compete against opponents in career mode to unlock new races, buy new cars and upgrade them with state-of-the-art technologies!

0
playing now
75%
positive of 794 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam rating
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
86/100
IGDB user rating (6 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$9.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 11:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 29% of 17,990 Indie games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 16k–36k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 794 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

Microsoft Store$9.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $0.99 at Steam (2022-07-28) · bundled 6×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $9.99 · on sale 4 of 9 observed days · $9.00 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Players online

402026-08-12 04:00 — 2 players2026-08-12 20:00 — 1 players2026-08-13 12:00 — 2 players2026-08-14 04:00 — 4 players2026-08-14 20:00 — 0 players2026-08-15 11:00 — 0 players2026-08-16 03:00 — 0 players2026-08-16 19:00 — 2 players2026-08-17 11:00 — 1 players2026-08-18 03:00 — 0 players2026-08-18 19:00 — 0 players2026-08-19 10:00 — 0 players2026-08-20 02:00 — 3 players2026-08-20 18:00 — 0 players2026-08-21 10:00 — 1 players2026-08-22 01:00 — 0 players2026-08-22 17:00 — 0 players2026-08-23 09:00 — 1 players2026-08-24 01:00 — 2 players2026-08-24 17:00 — 0 players2026-08-25 09:00 — 2 players2026-08-26 01:00 — 0 players2026-08-26 17:00 — 2 players2026-08-27 09:00 — 2 players2026-08-28 01:00 — 1 players2026-08-29 19:00 — 3 players2026-08-30 11:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$9.99$0.992020-11-192026-08-292020-11-19 — best price $8.992021-02-11 — best price $2.492021-04-08 — best price $1.002021-08-02 — best price $2.992021-11-15 — best price $1.002022-01-05 — best price $9.992022-03-22 — best price $1.002022-04-22 — best price $9.992022-07-07 — best price $9.992022-09-22 — best price $9.992022-11-28 — best price $0.992023-02-06 — best price $1.992023-04-06 — best price $0.992023-05-15 — best price $1.992023-08-19 — best price $1.992023-10-13 — best price $1.992023-11-21 — best price $1.492024-01-08 — best price $1.992024-03-22 — best price $1.492024-05-18 — best price $1.992024-06-27 — best price $0.992024-07-29 — best price $2.992024-09-09 — best price $1.992024-11-12 — best price $1.992025-01-02 — best price $9.992025-03-20 — best price $9.992025-06-08 — best price $9.992025-07-28 — best price $1.492026-05-08 — best price $0.992026-07-25 — best price $0.992026-08-29 — best price $9.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportIncludes level editorFamily Sharing

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Windows (Xbox)2,9468%65
Steam (Steam)2,2379%65
Switch (Nintendo)1170%0
Switch (Nintendo)40%0

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

Player tags

2D1980sIndieRetroArcadeRacingDrivingHand-drawnOld SchoolSoundtrack

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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