The Game Census
Cold Shell cover art

Cold Shell

Brutal Muse · 2023-02-28

Steam

ActionIndieRPG

Modes: Single player

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.

0
playing now
93%
positive of 40 reviews
Positive
steam rating
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$9.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 14:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 80% of 10,798 Action games in the census by review count.

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

12-month high $9.99 · on sale 10 of 20 observed days (census price snapshots)

Players online

002026-08-12 03:00 — 0 players2026-08-12 19:00 — 0 players2026-08-13 11:00 — 0 players2026-08-14 03:00 — 0 players2026-08-14 19:00 — 0 players2026-08-15 10:00 — 0 players2026-08-16 02:00 — 0 players2026-08-16 18:00 — 0 players2026-08-17 10:00 — 0 players2026-08-18 02:00 — 0 players2026-08-18 18:00 — 0 players2026-08-19 09:00 — 0 players2026-08-20 01:00 — 0 players2026-08-20 17:00 — 0 players2026-08-21 09:00 — 0 players2026-08-22 01:00 — 0 players2026-08-22 16:00 — 0 players2026-08-23 08:00 — 0 players2026-08-24 00:00 — 0 players2026-08-24 16:00 — 0 players2026-08-25 08:00 — 0 players2026-08-25 23:00 — 0 players2026-08-26 16:00 — 0 players2026-08-27 08:00 — 0 players2026-08-28 13:00 — 0 players2026-08-29 05:00 — 0 players2026-08-29 21:00 — 0 players2026-08-30 14:00 — 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).

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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