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Azure Striker Gunvolt cover art

Azure Striker Gunvolt

INTI CREATES CO., LTD. · 2015-08-28

SteamMicrosoft Store

ActionIndie

Franchise: Azure Striker Gunvolt · Modes: Single player

Releases: Aug 28, 2014 (Nintendo 3DS), Jun 30, 2022 (Xbox One), Aug 31, 2017 (Nintendo Switch), Apr 23, 2020 (PlayStation 4), Aug 28, 2015 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

A 2D action game featuring a young man with the power of lightning who stands for freedom against the evil ambitions of a massive organization. When lightning strikes, a new legend is born.

2
playing now
85%
positive of 1.8k reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
95/100
critic score (2 outlets, IGDB)
70/100
IGDB user rating (26 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$14.99
steam price (US)

2 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 07:00 UTC (census sample)

Azure Striker Gunvolt, known as Armed Blue: Gunvolt in Japan, is a 2D side-scrolling action-platform game developed and published by Inti Creates. It was first released for Nintendo 3DS via eShop in August 2014. Ports of the game were released for Windows in 2015, for Nintendo Switch in 2017, for PlayStation 4 in 2020, for Xbox One and Xbox Series X/S in 2022, and for Nintendo Switch 2 in 2026. In addition to utilizing gameplay similar to Mega Man Zero, Azure Striker Gunvolt also introduced new gameplay elements such as Gunvolt's ability to "tag" enemies and target many at once, adding an additional layer of complexity to the genre.

Health check

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  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 27% of 10,970 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 44k–105k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 1,755 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

Microsoft Store$14.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $3.74 at Steam (2017-06-22)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $14.99 · on sale 12 of 24 observed days · $11.25 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Players online

402026-08-11 20:00 — 2 players2026-08-12 12:00 — 1 players2026-08-13 04:00 — 0 players2026-08-13 20:00 — 0 players2026-08-14 11:00 — 0 players2026-08-15 03:00 — 1 players2026-08-15 19:00 — 3 players2026-08-16 11:00 — 1 players2026-08-17 03:00 — 2 players2026-08-17 19:00 — 1 players2026-08-18 11:00 — 1 players2026-08-19 02:00 — 0 players2026-08-19 18:00 — 1 players2026-08-20 10:00 — 0 players2026-08-21 02:00 — 1 players2026-08-21 18:00 — 2 players2026-08-22 09:00 — 2 players2026-08-23 01:00 — 4 players2026-08-23 17:00 — 0 players2026-08-24 09:00 — 0 players2026-08-25 01:00 — 1 players2026-08-25 16:00 — 0 players2026-08-26 09:00 — 0 players2026-08-27 01:00 — 1 players2026-08-27 17:00 — 1 players2026-08-28 09:00 — 1 players2026-08-29 15:00 — 1 players2026-08-30 07:00 — 2 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$14.99$3.742015-08-282026-08-292015-08-28 — best price $14.992016-03-07 — best price $7.492016-07-04 — best price $14.992017-04-28 — best price $7.492017-11-01 — best price $14.992018-02-15 — best price $4.492018-10-29 — best price $4.492019-01-03 — best price $14.992019-10-28 — best price $7.492020-01-02 — best price $14.992020-06-25 — best price $7.492020-11-02 — best price $14.992021-02-11 — best price $7.492021-05-06 — best price $14.992021-07-16 — best price $7.492021-11-01 — best price $14.992021-12-22 — best price $7.492022-05-28 — best price $14.992022-09-14 — best price $7.492022-11-29 — best price $14.992023-02-06 — best price $7.492023-05-10 — best price $14.992023-09-15 — best price $7.492023-11-28 — best price $14.992024-03-14 — best price $5.992024-06-26 — best price $14.992024-09-20 — best price $5.992024-12-04 — best price $14.992025-01-17 — best price $5.992025-03-20 — best price $14.992025-06-27 — best price $5.992025-09-29 — best price $5.992025-12-17 — best price $14.992026-03-02 — best price $5.242026-05-11 — best price $14.992026-07-23 — best price $5.242026-08-29 — best price $14.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

216692026-05-31 — 184 pageviews2026-06-03 — 157 pageviews2026-06-06 — 88 pageviews2026-06-09 — 96 pageviews2026-06-12 — 94 pageviews2026-06-15 — 115 pageviews2026-06-18 — 87 pageviews2026-06-21 — 102 pageviews2026-06-24 — 145 pageviews2026-06-27 — 88 pageviews2026-06-30 — 97 pageviews2026-07-03 — 99 pageviews2026-07-06 — 116 pageviews2026-07-09 — 154 pageviews2026-07-12 — 144 pageviews2026-07-15 — 109 pageviews2026-07-18 — 91 pageviews2026-07-21 — 108 pageviews2026-07-24 — 99 pageviews2026-07-27 — 87 pageviews2026-07-30 — 93 pageviews2026-08-02 — 83 pageviews2026-08-05 — 134 pageviews2026-08-08 — 91 pageviews2026-08-11 — 96 pageviews2026-08-14 — 94 pageviews2026-08-17 — 76 pageviews2026-08-20 — 92 pageviews2026-08-23 — 101 pageviews2026-08-26 — 106 pageviews2026-08-28 — 121 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

25
achievements tracked
85%
earned "It's My Hobby!!"
2.4%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam Trading CardsPartial Controller SupportSteam CloudSteam LeaderboardsFamily Sharing2 DLC

10 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Portuguese - Portugal, Russian, Korean, Traditional Chinese

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)3,6312%25
Xbox One (Xbox)5773%25

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

Player tags

2DAnimeIndieActionCyberpunkDifficultPlatformerSingleplayer2D PlatformerSide Scroller

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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