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Golden Hornet cover art

Golden Hornet

Hijong Park · PsychoFlux Entertainment · 2017-12-22

Steam

ActionIndieFree To Play

Modes: Single player

Releases: Dec 22, 2017 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Golden Hornet is a retro style twin-stick shooter. Become a pilot of the multipurpose helicopter 'Golden Hornet' — rescue hostages and destroy enemy outposts.

Golden Hornet is an Action, Indie and Free To Play game released in 2017, priced at $0.99, with an estimated owner base of 20,000 .. 50,000 and a Very Positive review sentiment (93% of 179 reviews).

0
playing now
93%
positive of 179 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$0.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 23:00 UTC (census sample)

There was a country called Videl, divided into North and South after their first civil war. And still, there was a lot of conflict between them. On May 26th, 2020, as the North Videl began to invade in the dawn, the Second Videl War broke out. To fight against the North Videl army, the Golden Hornet — the South Videl's most advanced multipurpose helicopter — was put into operation. Being piloted by two elite chopper pilots; the mission of the Golden Hornet is to save the prisoners of war, and destroy the enemy outposts.(Storyline via IGDB)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 3 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~0/week).
  • · Review velocity up 200% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 31% of 28,039 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-01

Estimated sales: 4.5k–11k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 179 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.79 at Steam (2020-01-25)via IsThereAnyDeal

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
2220172026Week of 2017-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

102026-09-16 01:00 — 0 players2026-09-17 08:00 — 0 players2026-09-18 16:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 23:00 — 0 players2026-09-21 07:00 — 0 players2026-09-22 14:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 22:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 05:00 — 0 players2026-09-26 13:00 — 0 players2026-09-27 20:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 04:00 — 0 players2026-09-30 11:00 — 0 players2026-10-01 19:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 02:00 — 0 players2026-10-04 10:00 — 0 players2026-10-05 18:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 02:00 — 0 players2026-10-08 09:00 — 0 players2026-10-09 17:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 00:00 — 0 players2026-10-12 08:00 — 0 players2026-10-13 16:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 23:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$0.99$0.002017-12-222024-02-112017-12-22 — best price $0.002020-01-25 — best price $0.792020-01-27 — best price $0.992020-03-27 — best price $0.792020-03-30 — best price $0.992020-06-25 — best price $0.792020-07-09 — best price $0.992020-08-24 — best price $0.792020-08-31 — best price $0.992020-10-29 — best price $0.792020-11-02 — best price $0.992020-11-25 — best price $0.792020-12-01 — best price $0.992020-12-22 — best price $0.792021-01-05 — best price $0.992021-02-12 — best price $0.792021-02-15 — best price $0.992024-02-11 — best price $0.00
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerFull controller supportFamily Sharing

2 supported languages: English, Korean

Player tags

2DIndieRetroActionShooterDifficultFree to PlayPixel Graphics

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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