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Droid Assault cover art

Droid Assault

Puppygames · 2013-01-09

Steam

ActionIndie

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer

Releases: Jan 09, 2013 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Jan 09, 2013 (Linux), Jan 09, 2013 (Mac)

Play Droid Assault and experience running blaster battles with hordes of rampaging killer robots! Discover a unique tactical arcade shooter, with the fun addictive gameplay of 8-bit classics. You'll need your wits and the help of your acquired droid squad to stay alive in this fast-paced retro actionfest.

0
playing now
82%
positive of 371 reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
80/100
IGDB user rating (3 ratings)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$9.99
steam price (US)

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

Droid Assault is a scrolling multidirectional shooter developed by Puppy Games and released on May 2, 2008 for Windows, OS X, and Linux. The game received mixed reviews from critics, praising its art style and gameplay but calling its length short.

Health check

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  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 50% of 10,936 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 15k–30k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 371 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.99 at Steam (2014-06-26) · bundled 3×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $9.99 · on sale 6 of 13 observed days (census price snapshots)

Players online

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

Price history

$12.99$1.002015-01-012026-07-092015-01-01 — best price $4.992015-04-27 — best price $9.992015-10-29 — best price $7.492016-02-12 — best price $9.992016-09-01 — best price $2.492016-11-29 — best price $9.992017-04-17 — best price $4.392017-11-01 — best price $9.992018-02-15 — best price $4.192018-08-06 — best price $9.992018-11-21 — best price $3.692019-02-11 — best price $9.992019-09-09 — best price $3.192019-11-01 — best price $9.992020-01-23 — best price $4.992020-05-11 — best price $9.992020-07-27 — best price $4.992020-12-01 — best price $9.992021-06-24 — best price $4.992021-12-01 — best price $9.992022-05-09 — best price $12.992022-07-07 — best price $12.992023-03-16 — best price $6.492023-08-07 — best price $12.992023-11-21 — best price $4.412024-02-26 — best price $4.412024-04-22 — best price $12.992024-12-19 — best price $6.492025-04-14 — best price $12.992025-09-26 — best price $9.992026-02-23 — best price $4.292026-05-25 — best price $9.992026-07-09 — best price $9.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

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

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxFull controller supportSingle-playerMulti-playerShared/Split ScreenSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam Trading CardsSteam CloudSteam LeaderboardsRemote Play TogetherFamily Sharing

Player tags

2DIndieRetroActionArcadeRobotsSci-fiShooterTop-DownLocal Co-Op

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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