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DX-Ball 2: 20th Anniversary Edition cover art

DX-Ball 2: 20th Anniversary Edition

Longbow Games · 2018-11-21

Steam

CasualIndie

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer

Releases: Nov 21, 2018 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

The king of breakout games is back in a special 20th Anniversary Edition with high-res boards, new power-ups, online leaderboards, a boardset editor and more!

15
playing now
96%
positive of 517 reviews
Overwhelmingly Positive
steam rating
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
70/100
IGDB user rating (0 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$6.99
steam price (US)

15 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 12:00 UTC (census sample)

DX-Ball 2 is a 1998 Breakout clone action game for Microsoft Windows, developed and published by Longbow Games. As a follow-up to the 1996 cult-classic DX-Ball by Michael P. Welch, the sequel introduced a number of improvements to the original game, including high-colour textured graphics, an original soundtrack by Eric "Sidewinder" Gieseke, multiple board-sets with distinct visual styles, and a hotseat multiplayer mode. On November 21, 2018, the game was re-released and remastered on Steam as DX-Ball 2: 20th Anniversary Edition, commemorating the game's 20th anniversary, while also ensuring compatibility with more recent versions of Windows. The anniversary edition introduced high-definition graphics, widescreen gameplay with a selection of new widescreen board-sets, additional power-ups, online leaderboards, and a board-set editor for creating custom board-sets. Following the release of the anniversary edition on Steam, distribution of the original demo version of DX-Ball 2 via the Longbow Games website was discontinued, alongside sales of the game's original board pack expansions.

Health check

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 29% of 9,678 Casual games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 13k–31k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 517 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $2.30 at Steam (2020-11-25)via IsThereAnyDeal

Players online

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

Price history

$6.99$2.302018-11-212021-01-052018-11-21 — best price $5.592018-11-22 — best price $6.992018-11-28 — best price $6.992019-01-03 — best price $5.592019-01-07 — best price $6.992019-02-11 — best price $5.592019-02-15 — best price $6.992019-05-23 — best price $5.592019-05-27 — best price $6.992019-06-25 — best price $3.492019-07-09 — best price $6.992019-07-11 — best price $5.592019-07-15 — best price $6.992019-11-26 — best price $3.492019-12-03 — best price $6.992019-12-19 — best price $3.492020-01-02 — best price $6.992020-04-09 — best price $2.622020-04-13 — best price $6.992020-06-25 — best price $4.192020-07-09 — best price $6.992020-11-25 — best price $2.302020-12-01 — best price $6.992020-12-22 — best price $2.302021-01-05 — best price $6.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

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

Details

WindowsSingle-playerMulti-playerPvPShared/Split Screen PvPSteam AchievementsSteam WorkshopSteam CloudSteam LeaderboardsIncludes level editorRemote Play Together3 DLC

1 supported languages: English

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)9913%32

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

2DIndieRetro1990'sArcadeCasualClassicGreat Soundtrack

Census log

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

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