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Cold Shell cover art

Cold Shell

Brutal Muse · 2023-02-28

Steam

ActionIndieRPG

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Bird view / Isometric

Releases: Feb 28, 2023 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Cold Shell is a top-down, sci-fi, arcade brawler with persistent RPG elements. Bash thugs and change wallpapers.

Cold Shell is an Action, Indie, RPG game released in 2023, priced at $9.99, with an estimated 20,000 .. 50,000 owners and a Positive review sentiment (92% of 40 reviews).

0
playing now
93%
positive of 40 reviews
Positive
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$9.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 09:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 11 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 61% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 57% of 27,727 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-02

All-time low: $0.99 at Steam (2026-01-30)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $9.99 · on sale 8 of 16 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
151520232026Week of 2023-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

102026-09-15 10:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 18:00 — 0 players2026-09-18 01:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 09:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 17:00 — 0 players2026-09-22 00:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 08:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 15:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 23:00 — 0 players2026-09-27 06:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 14:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 22:00 — 0 players2026-10-01 05:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 13:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 20:00 — 0 players2026-10-05 04:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 12:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 19:00 — 0 players2026-10-09 03:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 10:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 18:00 — 0 players2026-10-13 02:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 09:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$9.99$0.992023-02-282026-08-102023-02-28 — best price $8.992023-06-29 — best price $7.992023-11-21 — best price $6.992023-12-21 — best price $5.992024-01-28 — best price $5.992024-03-14 — best price $5.992024-04-04 — best price $9.992024-05-20 — best price $9.992024-07-11 — best price $9.992024-08-12 — best price $9.992024-10-10 — best price $9.992024-11-25 — best price $9.992024-12-04 — best price $9.992025-01-02 — best price $9.992025-02-10 — best price $9.992025-04-01 — best price $9.992025-05-15 — best price $9.992025-07-10 — best price $9.992025-08-11 — best price $9.992025-09-24 — best price $9.992025-10-06 — best price $9.992025-11-08 — best price $9.992026-01-05 — best price $9.992026-02-07 — best price $9.992026-03-18 — best price $9.992026-03-26 — best price $9.992026-05-15 — best price $9.992026-07-09 — best price $9.992026-08-10 — best price $9.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

29
achievements tracked
96.2%
earned "Here we go"
27.7%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsPartial Controller SupportSteam CloudFamily Sharing

3 supported languages: English, Russian, Simplified Chinese

Player tags

2DRPGBloodActionArcadeColorfulTop-DownCyberpunkDifficultAction RPG

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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