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Battle Shapers

Metric Empire · 2024-12-04

Steam

Action

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: First person

Releases: Oct 03, 2023 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Battle Shapers is an action-packed, sci-fi FPS roguelite in which you shoot and smash your way through swarms of corrupt robots. Wield powerful weapons, abilities, and game-changing new powers stolen from ruthless Overlords.

Battle Shapers is a $24.99 Action game released in 2024, with an estimated 20,000 to 50,000 owners and a Very Positive sentiment based on 81% of 1,132 reviews.

12
playing now
82%
positive of 1.1k reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Verified
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$24.99
steam price (US)

12 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 21:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 12 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 136 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~17/week).
  • · Review velocity down 20% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 14% of 27,667 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-31

Estimated sales: 23k–51k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 1,136 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $9.99 at Steam (2026-01-24) · bundled 3×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $24.99 · on sale 11 of 22 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
13213220232026Week of 2023-10-01: 132 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 21 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 42 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 17 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 28 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 34 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 72 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 29 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 37 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 33 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 40 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 28 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 26 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 7 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

2252026-09-15 06:00 — 12 players2026-09-16 14:00 — 17 players2026-09-17 22:00 — 11 players2026-09-19 05:00 — 12 players2026-09-20 13:00 — 19 players2026-09-21 21:00 — 20 players2026-09-23 04:00 — 10 players2026-09-24 12:00 — 10 players2026-09-25 19:00 — 16 players2026-09-27 03:00 — 12 players2026-09-28 10:00 — 6 players2026-09-29 18:00 — 10 players2026-10-01 01:00 — 10 players2026-10-02 09:00 — 12 players2026-10-03 16:00 — 21 players2026-10-05 00:00 — 13 players2026-10-06 08:00 — 9 players2026-10-07 15:00 — 12 players2026-10-08 23:00 — 13 players2026-10-10 06:00 — 17 players2026-10-11 14:00 — 21 players2026-10-12 22:00 — 11 players2026-10-14 05:00 — 6 players2026-10-14 21:00 — 12 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
574Oct 2023Aug 2026Oct 2023 — avg 31 · peak 106Nov 2023 — avg 14 · peak 45Dec 2023 — avg 14 · peak 35Jan 2024 — avg 7 · peak 23Feb 2024 — avg 10 · peak 34Mar 2024 — avg 4 · peak 13Apr 2024 — avg 8 · peak 25May 2024 — avg 7 · peak 47Jun 2024 — avg 14 · peak 41Jul 2024 — avg 12 · peak 111Aug 2024 — avg 21 · peak 68Sep 2024 — avg 11 · peak 32Oct 2024 — avg 7 · peak 23Nov 2024 — avg 5 · peak 16Dec 2024 — avg 57 · peak 185Jan 2025 — avg 30 · peak 72Feb 2025 — avg 29 · peak 79Mar 2025 — avg 25 · peak 192Apr 2025 — avg 47 · peak 165May 2025 — avg 25 · peak 66Jun 2025 — avg 12 · peak 32Jul 2025 — avg 10 · peak 25Aug 2025 — avg 12 · peak 31Sep 2025 — avg 7 · peak 17Oct 2025 — avg 8 · peak 19Nov 2025 — avg 7 · peak 16Dec 2025 — avg 11 · peak 25Jan 2026 — avg 36 · peak 199Feb 2026 — avg 26 · peak 59Mar 2026 — avg 11 · peak 28Apr 2026 — avg 13 · peak 37May 2026 — avg 9 · peak 29Jun 2026 — avg 13 · peak 53Jul 2026 — avg 6 · peak 15Aug 2026 — avg 9 · peak 25
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$24.99$9.992023-10-032026-08-172023-10-03 — best price $22.492023-11-21 — best price $18.742023-12-13 — best price $18.742024-01-29 — best price $18.742024-04-12 — best price $17.492024-05-28 — best price $17.492024-06-27 — best price $17.492024-07-30 — best price $16.742024-09-20 — best price $17.492024-11-27 — best price $17.492024-12-19 — best price $17.492025-01-16 — best price $16.242025-02-17 — best price $16.242025-03-13 — best price $16.242025-03-30 — best price $14.992025-05-15 — best price $14.992025-06-27 — best price $14.992025-07-27 — best price $14.992025-09-14 — best price $14.992025-09-29 — best price $14.992025-10-28 — best price $13.742025-12-04 — best price $12.492026-01-05 — best price $24.992026-01-24 — best price $9.992026-03-09 — best price $12.492026-04-18 — best price $12.492026-05-02 — best price $24.992026-05-08 — best price $12.492026-05-28 — best price $12.492026-06-11 — best price $9.992026-08-03 — best price $9.992026-08-17 — best price $24.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

52
achievements tracked
72.1%
earned "A First of Many"
14.6%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportDualShock Controller SupportDualSense Controller SupportDualSense Controller SupportSteam CloudSteam LeaderboardsFamily Sharing1 DLC

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

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2023-12-20 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)8151%52

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

Player tags

FPSIndieActionRobotsShooterColorfulStylizedControllerRogue-likeRogue-lite

Census log

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

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