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Ground Pounders cover art

Ground Pounders

Kerberos Productions Inc. · 2014-07-15

Steam

IndieStrategy

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer

Releases: Jul 15, 2014 (Mac), Jul 15, 2014 (Linux), Jul 15, 2014 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Ground Pounders is a turn-based, strategy wargame. Inspired by classic strategy games like Panzer General, and steeped in the lore of the Sword of the Stars universe, Ground Pounders offers a new generation of gamers an updated taste of turn-based strategic warfare.

Ground Pounders is a 2014 Indie, Strategy game priced at $4.99, estimated to have 20,000 .. 50,000 owners, with a Mostly Negative sentiment (39% of 54 reviews).

0
playing now
39%
positive of 54 reviews
Mostly Negative
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
40/100
IGDB user rating (0 ratings)
$4.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 09:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 4 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity up 33% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 48% of 49,583 Indie games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-02

Estimated sales: 1.4k–3.2k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 54 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.34 at GamersGate (2022-01-30) · bundled 5×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $4.99 · on sale 2 of 12 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
2220142025Week of 2014-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2014-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2014-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2014-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2014-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2014-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2014-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2015-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2015-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

102026-09-15 09:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 18:00 — 0 players2026-09-18 01:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 09:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 16:00 — 0 players2026-09-22 00:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 08:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 15:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 23:00 — 0 players2026-09-27 06:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 14:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 21:00 — 0 players2026-10-01 05:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 12:00 — 1 players2026-10-03 20:00 — 0 players2026-10-05 04:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 11:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 19:00 — 1 players2026-10-09 03:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 10:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 18:00 — 0 players2026-10-13 01:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 09:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$12.99$0.492015-01-012026-07-102015-01-01 — best price $6.492015-11-25 — best price $2.592016-05-01 — best price $1.942016-10-06 — best price $12.992017-06-22 — best price $0.992018-02-15 — best price $1.992018-07-26 — best price $0.502018-12-21 — best price $1.242019-06-10 — best price $1.252019-11-02 — best price $4.992020-01-25 — best price $4.992020-07-09 — best price $4.992020-08-26 — best price $4.492020-09-13 — best price $4.492020-10-04 — best price $4.492020-10-22 — best price $4.492020-11-07 — best price $4.492020-11-25 — best price $0.492020-12-18 — best price $4.492021-01-04 — best price $4.992021-01-21 — best price $4.492021-02-08 — best price $4.492021-02-24 — best price $4.492021-03-14 — best price $4.492021-04-02 — best price $4.492021-04-20 — best price $4.492021-05-08 — best price $4.492021-05-26 — best price $4.492021-06-25 — best price $0.752021-11-24 — best price $0.992022-01-29 — best price $0.492022-07-29 — best price $2.492022-12-08 — best price $4.992023-07-14 — best price $4.992024-03-22 — best price $4.992025-08-15 — best price $4.992026-04-19 — best price $4.492026-07-10 — best price $4.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

45
achievements tracked
8.5%
earned "Shipped out to Basic"
3%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxSingle-playerMulti-playerCross-Platform MultiplayerSteam AchievementsSteam Trading CardsFamily Sharing2 DLC

Post-launch support: 2 DLC released, first 2014-05-12, latest 2014-09-24 (Steam store data)

Player tags

IndieSci-fiWargameHex GridStrategyTurn-BasedEarly AccessTurn-Based Strategy

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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