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Absolute Blue

Jochen Heizmann · Asylum Square · 2018-04-21

Steam

ActionIndie

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Side view

Releases: Apr 21, 2018 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Sidescrolling Shoot’em’up that will transport you back into the 90s (and space).

Absolute Blue is an Action, Indie game released in 2018, priced at free-to-play, with a Mostly Positive review sentiment (71% of 56 reviews) and an owner estimate of 20,000 .. 50,000.

0
playing now
71%
positive of 56 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
50/100
IGDB user rating (0 ratings)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unsupported
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Unsupported
Free
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 09:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 9 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity up 13% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 49% of 27,727 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-02

All-time low: $0.51 at Steam (2018-06-22) · bundled 2×via IsThereAnyDeal

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
4420182026Week of 2018-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2018-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

102026-09-15 09:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 18:00 — 0 players2026-09-18 01:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 09:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 16:00 — 0 players2026-09-22 00:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 08:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 15:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 23:00 — 0 players2026-09-27 06:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 14:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 21:00 — 0 players2026-10-01 05:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 12:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 20:00 — 0 players2026-10-05 04:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 11:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 19:00 — 0 players2026-10-09 02:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 10:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 18:00 — 0 players2026-10-13 01:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 09:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$3.99$0.002018-04-302022-11-122018-04-30 — best price $3.992018-06-22 — best price $0.512018-07-05 — best price $3.992019-06-26 — best price $3.592019-07-09 — best price $3.992020-01-13 — best price $0.912020-01-20 — best price $3.992020-05-04 — best price $0.512020-05-18 — best price $3.992021-10-28 — best price $0.512021-11-01 — best price $3.992021-11-24 — best price $0.512021-12-01 — best price $3.992021-12-22 — best price $0.512022-01-05 — best price $3.992022-11-12 — best price $0.00
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerPartial Controller SupportFamily Sharing1 DLC

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2018-04-23 (Steam store data)

Player tags

2D1980sRetroSpace1990'sActionArcadeLinearSci-fiShooter

Census log

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

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