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Cruel Arena

Panda Studio · 2015-08-18

Steam

Action

Modes: Single player

Releases: Dec 17, 2014 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Cruel Arena is a classic arena survival zombie game. Face endless hordes and survive as much as you can, Through The Doodles and The Frames!! Will you do the best record among your friends?

0
playing now
65%
positive of 310 reviews
Mixed
steam rating
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
50/100
IGDB user rating (0 ratings)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$0.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 06:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 52% of 11,000 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 7.8k–19k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 310 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.49 at Steam (2016-06-04) · bundled 3×via IsThereAnyDeal

Players online

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Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$1.99$0.002015-01-012022-07-072015-01-01 — best price $1.992015-02-10 — best price $1.992015-05-05 — best price $1.992015-08-25 — best price $1.992015-11-17 — best price $1.992016-01-04 — best price $1.992016-02-12 — best price $1.992016-03-22 — best price $1.992016-06-04 — best price $0.492016-08-19 — best price $0.492016-10-28 — best price $0.692016-11-23 — best price $0.492016-12-22 — best price $0.492017-06-22 — best price $0.492017-10-26 — best price $0.692017-11-22 — best price $0.692017-12-21 — best price $0.492018-02-15 — best price $0.692018-06-21 — best price $0.692018-10-29 — best price $0.692018-11-21 — best price $0.692018-12-21 — best price $0.692019-02-04 — best price $0.892019-06-25 — best price $0.692022-06-23 — best price $0.592022-07-07 — best price $0.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Player tags

2DGoreActionShooterViolentZombies

Census log

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

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