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CODE SHIFTER cover art

CODE SHIFTER

LAND HO! Co., Ltd. · Arc System Works · 2020-01-29

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Action

Franchise: BlazBlue, Guilty Gear, Kunio-kun · Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative · Perspectives: Bird view / Isometric, Side view

Releases: Jan 29, 2020 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Jan 29, 2020 (PlayStation 4), Jan 30, 2020 (Nintendo Switch), Jan 30, 2020 (Xbox One)

Characters from all the iconic Arc System Works franchises, including Guilty Gear, BlazBlue, and the River City series, all meet in a 2D pixel art side-scrolling action game!

41%
positive of 64 reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
57/100
critic score (2 outlets, IGDB)
50/100
IGDB user rating (0 ratings)
$14.99
steam price (US)
Code Shifter is a 2020 action-platform game developed and published by Arc System Works. The game was released worldwide on January 30, 2020, for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One. It was released on January 29, 2020, in North America, and a day later in Europe, for the Nintendo Switch.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 7 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 12% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 58% of 17,962 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 1.3k–2.9k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 64 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

Microsoft Store$14.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $2.24 at GamersGate (2021-07-10)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $14.99 · on sale 0 of 1 observed days · $12.75 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
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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-playerPvPShared/Split Screen PvPCo-opShared/Split Screen Co-opSteam AchievementsFull controller supportRemote Play TogetherFamily Sharing

4 supported languages: English, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean

Player tags

2DAction2D FighterOld SchoolPixel Graphics

Census log

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

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