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Castle of Shikigami 2 cover art

Castle of Shikigami 2

Cosmo Machia · Cosmo Machia inc. · 2021-12-06

SteamAmazon

Action

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative · Perspectives: Bird view / Isometric

Releases: Dec 07, 2021 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Apr 13, 2023 (Nintendo Switch)

The second installment of the dramatic shooter that gained popularity in the arcades is now coming to Steam with +α elements!

94%
positive of 47 reviews
Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
$19.99
steam price (US)
Castle Shikigami 2 is a vertically scrolling shooter developed by Alfa System for the Sega NAOMI arcade system board. It was subsequently ported in Japan to GameCube, and then later to Dreamcast, PlayStation 2, Xbox, and Microsoft Windows. The game was released in North America on the PlayStation 2 by XS Games as Castle Shikigami 2, and in Europe as Castle Shikigami 2: War of the Worlds. XS Games also published the first game in the series in North America and Europe under the name Mobile Light Force 2.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 9 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 25% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 71% of 14,066 Action games in the census by review count.

Review momentum

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161620212026Week of 2021-12-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-09-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Attention

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

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerMulti-playerCo-opShared/Split Screen Co-opShared/Split ScreenSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam CloudSteam LeaderboardsFamily Sharing1 DLC

1 supported languages: English

Census log

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

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