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Blast-off cover art

Blast-off

Quad-Games · 2018-01-22

Steam

ActionIndie

Modes: Single player

Releases: Jan 22, 2018 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Blast-off is a hardcore jumper/runner/shmup, where your alter ego will be a ball of anti-matter seeking to leave our Universe. Anti-matter is extremely difficult to exist in our universe, because when it contact with matter it annihilates.

0
playing now
87%
positive of 422 reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
70/100
IGDB user rating (1 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$2.99
steam price (US)

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

Blast Off is a 1989 vertically scrolling shooter video game developed and published by Namco for arcades. It was released only in Japan in March 1989. It is the sequel to Bosconian which was released eight years prior. In 2006, it was released for Japanese mobile phones through Namco Bandai Games' mobile game service. Hamster Corporation released the game outside Japan for the first time as part of their Arcade Archives series for the Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4 in September 2024.

Health check

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  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 48% of 10,791 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 11k–25k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 422 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.38 at Steam (2022-12-22) · bundled 2×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $2.99 · on sale 3 of 6 observed days (census price snapshots)

Players online

202026-08-11 20:00 — 1 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 — 0 players2026-08-15 19:00 — 0 players2026-08-16 11:00 — 0 players2026-08-17 03:00 — 1 players2026-08-17 19:00 — 0 players2026-08-18 11:00 — 0 players2026-08-19 02:00 — 0 players2026-08-19 18:00 — 0 players2026-08-20 10:00 — 0 players2026-08-21 02:00 — 0 players2026-08-21 18:00 — 0 players2026-08-22 09:00 — 0 players2026-08-23 01:00 — 0 players2026-08-23 17:00 — 2 players2026-08-24 09:00 — 0 players2026-08-25 01:00 — 0 players2026-08-25 16:00 — 0 players2026-08-26 09:00 — 0 players2026-08-27 01:00 — 0 players2026-08-27 17:00 — 0 players2026-08-28 09:00 — 0 players2026-08-29 02:00 — 0 players2026-08-29 18:00 — 0 players2026-08-30 08:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$9.99$0.382017-03-022026-07-092017-03-02 — best price $7.992017-05-15 — best price $4.992017-07-31 — best price $3.742017-11-09 — best price $9.992018-03-20 — best price $9.992018-08-06 — best price $2.992018-11-01 — best price $9.992019-01-03 — best price $9.992019-02-28 — best price $9.992019-07-09 — best price $9.992019-10-28 — best price $0.492019-12-19 — best price $0.492020-06-25 — best price $0.492020-10-12 — best price $0.492020-12-22 — best price $0.492021-04-05 — best price $0.492021-06-24 — best price $0.492021-09-27 — best price $0.492021-11-24 — best price $0.492022-01-17 — best price $0.492022-03-07 — best price $0.492022-08-29 — best price $0.492022-11-29 — best price $2.992023-03-06 — best price $2.992023-04-17 — best price $2.992023-07-13 — best price $2.992023-11-13 — best price $2.992024-01-04 — best price $2.992024-03-21 — best price $2.992024-07-11 — best price $2.992025-01-02 — best price $2.992025-03-20 — best price $2.992025-10-06 — best price $2.992026-07-09 — best price $2.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

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Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam Trading CardsSteam CloudStatsSteam LeaderboardsFamily Sharing1 DLC

11 supported languages: English, Russian, Italian, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Hungarian, Turkish, Czech, Swedish, Simplified Chinese

Player tags

2DIndieSpaceActionArcadeSci-fiPhysicsReal-TimeFuturisticBullet Hell

Census log

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

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