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Gang Beasts cover art

Gang Beasts

Boneloaf · 2017-12-12

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ActionAdventureCasualIndieSimulation

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative · Perspectives: Bird view / Isometric, Virtual Reality

Releases: Dec 12, 2017 (Linux), Dec 12, 2017 (PlayStation 4), Oct 07, 2021 (Nintendo Switch), Dec 12, 2017 (Mac), Dec 12, 2017 (PlayStation VR), Mar 27, 2019 (Xbox One)

Gang Beasts is a silly multiplayer party game with surly gelatinous characters, brutal slapstick fight sequences, and absurd hazardous environments, set in the mean streets of Beef City.

Gang Beasts is an Action, Adventure, Casual, Indie game released in 2017, priced at $7.99, with an owner estimate of 2,000,000 .. 5,000,000 and a review sentiment of Very Positive (86% of 67514 reviews).

228
playing now
86%
positive of 68k reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
2,000,000–5,000,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
12,145
twitch viewers (latest)
12145.0
viewers/channel (concentration)
65/100
critic score (5 outlets, IGDB)
74/100
IGDB user rating (158 ratings)
21
Nexus mods (45k downloads)
4.26★
PlayStation Store rating (95,733 ratings)
66/100
opencritic · fair · 31% recommend · from 32 critics
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Verified
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$7.99
steam price (US)

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

Gang Beasts is a beat 'em up party video game developed and published by English game developer Boneloaf Studios. The title was originally published by Double Fine Presents until May 2020 and was self-published afterwards, while it would later be published physically by Skybound Games. The game released for Windows, macOS, Linux, and PlayStation 4 on 12 December 2017, following an early access period for the PC platforms that began in August 2014. It was also released on the Xbox One on 27 March 2019. A version for Nintendo Switch was released on 13 October 2021.

Trailer

Gang Beasts trailer thumbnail

Gang Beasts - Gameplay Trailer | PS4

≈1,000,000 YouTube results for this game's trailer search

Health check

Healthy
  • · 228 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 4,971 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~621/week).
  • · Review velocity up 65% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 2% of 27,727 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-27

Estimated sales: 1.7M–4.1M copies

Review-multiple estimate from 67,852 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

Microsoft Store$7.99-60%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $4.99 at Steam (2026-05-29) · bundled 6×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $19.99 · on sale 24 of 47 observed days · $3.00 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
1.2k1.2k20182026Week of 2018-03-01: 145 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 77 negativeWeek of 2018-04-01: 105 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 55 negativeWeek of 2018-05-01: 98 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 39 negativeWeek of 2018-06-01: 133 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 74 negativeWeek of 2018-07-01: 119 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 72 negativeWeek of 2018-08-01: 113 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 44 negativeWeek of 2018-09-01: 81 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 35 negativeWeek of 2018-10-01: 67 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 34 negativeWeek of 2018-11-01: 336 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 44 negativeWeek of 2018-12-01: 85 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 61 negativeWeek of 2019-01-01: 88 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 51 negativeWeek of 2019-02-01: 78 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 39 negativeWeek of 2019-03-01: 62 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 27 negativeWeek of 2019-04-01: 63 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 28 negativeWeek of 2019-05-01: 68 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 27 negativeWeek of 2019-06-01: 223 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 37 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 270 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 50 negativeWeek of 2019-08-01: 64 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 24 negativeWeek of 2019-09-01: 33 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 19 negativeWeek of 2019-10-01: 72 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 28 negativeWeek of 2019-11-01: 333 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 22 negativeWeek of 2019-12-01: 324 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 30 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 286 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 32 negativeWeek of 2020-02-01: 306 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 70 negativeWeek of 2020-03-01: 251 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 30 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 281 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 41 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 276 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 38 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 345 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 70 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 558 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 91 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 359 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 52 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 217 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 30 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 302 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 74 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 409 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 70 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 618 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 127 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 576 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 87 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 447 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 62 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 545 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 62 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 404 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 38 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 777 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 117 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 458 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 86 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 570 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 64 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 425 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 42 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 756 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 85 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 416 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 37 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 500 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 44 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 926 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 64 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 1,248 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 92 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 988 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 81 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 530 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 59 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 744 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 69 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 701 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 74 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 529 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 45 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 697 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 80 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 537 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 50 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 483 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 41 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 404 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 33 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 533 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 37 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 567 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 54 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 776 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 54 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 774 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 73 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 708 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 52 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 488 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 28 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 644 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 56 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 763 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 65 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 996 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 83 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 726 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 59 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 749 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 64 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 541 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 64 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 512 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 39 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 479 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 54 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 507 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 52 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 403 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 29 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 450 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 55 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 317 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 29 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 277 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 30 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 396 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 36 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 451 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 51 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 317 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 24 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 272 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 31 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 278 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 20 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 379 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 34 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 485 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 37 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 398 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 39 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 270 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 18 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 362 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 24 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 258 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 16 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 247 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 21 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 313 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 31 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 368 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 38 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 302 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 34 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 276 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 27 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 330 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 34 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 193 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 19 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 373 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 62 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 553 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 65 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 356 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 40 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 666 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 74 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 568 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 71 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 478 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 52 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 996 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 136 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 638 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 69 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 393 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 58 negativeWeek of 2026-09-01: 337 positiveWeek of 2026-09-01: 39 negativeWeek of 2026-10-01: 87 positiveWeek of 2026-10-01: 12 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

1.2k862026-09-15 11:00 — 128 players2026-09-16 20:00 — 347 players2026-09-18 03:00 — 294 players2026-09-19 11:00 — 244 players2026-09-20 18:00 — 593 players2026-09-22 02:00 — 312 players2026-09-23 09:00 — 86 players2026-09-24 17:00 — 307 players2026-09-26 00:00 — 405 players2026-09-27 08:00 — 216 players2026-09-28 15:00 — 239 players2026-09-29 23:00 — 282 players2026-10-01 06:00 — 107 players2026-10-02 14:00 — 321 players2026-10-03 22:00 — 797 players2026-10-05 06:00 — 227 players2026-10-06 13:00 — 240 players2026-10-07 21:00 — 512 players2026-10-09 04:00 — 442 players2026-10-10 12:00 — 495 players2026-10-11 19:00 — 1,210 players2026-10-13 03:00 — 576 players2026-10-14 10:00 — 228 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
1.0k39Sep 2014Aug 2026Sep 2014 — avg 66 · peak 193Jan 2015 — avg 64 · peak 280May 2015 — avg 47 · peak 116Sep 2015 — avg 59 · peak 170Jan 2016 — avg 170 · peak 517May 2016 — avg 230 · peak 656Sep 2016 — avg 296 · peak 650Jan 2017 — avg 895 · peak 2,130May 2017 — avg 232 · peak 478Sep 2017 — avg 374 · peak 2,946Jan 2018 — avg 500 · peak 1,218May 2018 — avg 176 · peak 387Sep 2018 — avg 194 · peak 450Jan 2019 — avg 216 · peak 508May 2019 — avg 117 · peak 300Sep 2019 — avg 100 · peak 260Jan 2020 — avg 177 · peak 409May 2020 — avg 203 · peak 410Sep 2020 — avg 161 · peak 325Jan 2021 — avg 442 · peak 1,242May 2021 — avg 604 · peak 1,591Sep 2021 — avg 706 · peak 1,903Jan 2022 — avg 1,015 · peak 2,726May 2022 — avg 676 · peak 1,605Sep 2022 — avg 501 · peak 1,304Jan 2023 — avg 661 · peak 1,806May 2023 — avg 602 · peak 1,636Sep 2023 — avg 642 · peak 1,806Jan 2024 — avg 431 · peak 1,009May 2024 — avg 261 · peak 633Sep 2024 — avg 297 · peak 917Jan 2025 — avg 439 · peak 1,161May 2025 — avg 248 · peak 742Sep 2025 — avg 257 · peak 672Jan 2026 — avg 517 · peak 1,162May 2026 — avg 445 · peak 2,043Aug 2026 — avg 406 · peak 1,030
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Chart history

PositiveNegative
33332026-09-222026-10-142026-09-22: 33 new positive2026-09-22: 3 new negative2026-09-23: 11 new positive2026-09-23: 2 new negative2026-09-24: 7 new positive2026-09-25: 7 new positive2026-09-25: 1 new negative2026-09-26: 25 new positive2026-09-26: 3 new negative2026-09-28: 16 new positive2026-09-28: 2 new negative2026-09-29: 8 new positive2026-09-29: 1 new negative2026-10-01: 11 new positive2026-10-01: 1 new negative2026-10-03: 14 new positive2026-10-03: 2 new negative2026-10-04: 10 new positive2026-10-04: 4 new negative2026-10-05: 21 new positive2026-10-05: 3 new negative2026-10-07: 13 new positive2026-10-07: 2 new negative2026-10-08: 10 new positive2026-10-08: 1 new negative2026-10-09: 19 new positive2026-10-10: 18 new positive2026-10-10: 1 new negative2026-10-11: 33 new positive2026-10-11: 10 new negative2026-10-14: 15 new positive2026-10-14: 2 new negative
New Steam reviews per day (census review snapshots). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$19.99$7.992015-01-012026-10-152015-01-01 — best price $14.992015-05-25 — best price $19.992016-01-04 — best price $19.992016-09-26 — best price $19.992017-06-22 — best price $13.392017-12-12 — best price $15.992018-02-22 — best price $19.992018-07-23 — best price $19.992019-02-04 — best price $13.392019-09-13 — best price $13.392020-10-19 — best price $9.992020-12-22 — best price $9.992021-03-29 — best price $19.992021-07-22 — best price $9.992021-12-04 — best price $19.992022-02-15 — best price $19.992022-04-22 — best price $19.992022-06-24 — best price $8.992022-10-03 — best price $8.992022-11-24 — best price $7.992023-02-07 — best price $7.992023-04-21 — best price $19.992023-07-11 — best price $19.992023-09-09 — best price $7.992023-11-17 — best price $7.992024-03-04 — best price $7.992024-05-27 — best price $7.992024-08-15 — best price $7.992024-11-21 — best price $7.992025-02-10 — best price $19.992025-04-16 — best price $7.992025-07-03 — best price $7.992025-10-20 — best price $19.992026-01-16 — best price $7.992026-04-02 — best price $7.992026-06-25 — best price $7.992026-09-03 — best price $19.992026-10-15 — best price $7.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

215752026-05-28 — 161 pageviews2026-06-01 — 126 pageviews2026-06-05 — 145 pageviews2026-06-09 — 136 pageviews2026-06-13 — 113 pageviews2026-06-17 — 207 pageviews2026-06-21 — 160 pageviews2026-06-25 — 179 pageviews2026-06-29 — 120 pageviews2026-07-03 — 144 pageviews2026-07-07 — 215 pageviews2026-07-11 — 128 pageviews2026-07-15 — 110 pageviews2026-07-19 — 119 pageviews2026-07-23 — 104 pageviews2026-07-27 — 92 pageviews2026-07-31 — 116 pageviews2026-08-04 — 98 pageviews2026-08-08 — 139 pageviews2026-08-12 — 105 pageviews2026-08-16 — 123 pageviews2026-08-20 — 102 pageviews2026-08-24 — 123 pageviews2026-08-28 — 132 pageviews2026-09-01 — 136 pageviews2026-09-05 — 171 pageviews2026-09-09 — 146 pageviews2026-09-13 — 140 pageviews2026-09-17 — 75 pageviews2026-09-21 — 114 pageviews2026-09-25 — 126 pageviews2026-09-29 — 106 pageviews2026-10-03 — 142 pageviews2026-10-07 — 123 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Twitch viewers

12k02026-10-01 05:12 — 12,145 viewers2026-10-02 07:34 — 4 viewers2026-10-02 16:34 — 1 viewers2026-10-03 01:34 — 88 viewers2026-10-03 11:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-03 20:34 — 44 viewers2026-10-04 05:34 — 15 viewers2026-10-04 14:34 — 2 viewers2026-10-04 23:34 — 18 viewers2026-10-05 12:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-05 21:34 — 13 viewers2026-10-06 06:34 — 17 viewers2026-10-07 06:34 — 2 viewers2026-10-07 15:34 — 6 viewers2026-10-08 00:34 — 132 viewers2026-10-08 09:34 — 3 viewers2026-10-09 08:34 — 4 viewers2026-10-09 17:34 — 7 viewers2026-10-10 02:34 — 9 viewers2026-10-10 11:34 — 1 viewers2026-10-10 21:34 — 6 viewers2026-10-11 06:34 — 108 viewers2026-10-11 15:34 — 4 viewers2026-10-12 00:34 — 16 viewers2026-10-12 09:34 — 1 viewers2026-10-13 09:34 — 1 viewers2026-10-13 18:34 — 6 viewers2026-10-14 03:34 — 38 viewers2026-10-14 12:34 — 3 viewers2026-10-14 14:34 — 0 viewers
Hourly Twitch viewers (census snapshots).

Completion

19
achievements tracked
55.6%
earned "Welcome to Beef City"
18.4%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxFull controller supportMulti-playerPvPOnline PvPShared/Split Screen PvPShared/Split ScreenSteam AchievementsFull controller supportRemote Play on PhoneRemote Play on TabletRemote Play on TV1 DLC

10 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Portuguese - Brazil, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2019-04-03 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Xbox One, Windows (Xbox)104,9177%19
PS4 (PlayStation)87,0217%19
PS4 (PlayStation)72,4278%19
Steam (Steam)40,3745%19
Switch (Nintendo)5180%0

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

Where its players are

Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.

Player tags

Co-opFunnyPartyCasualComedyPhysicsColorfulFighting3D FighterParty Game

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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