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Headbangers in Holiday Hell

Vikerlane · Hammer & Ravens · 2020-12-07

SteamPlayStation StoreMicrosoft Store

ActionIndie

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Third person, Bird view / Isometric

Releases: Dec 21, 2022 (Xbox One), Dec 21, 2022 (Xbox Series X|S), Dec 21, 2022 (PlayStation 4), Dec 21, 2022 (PlayStation 5), Dec 21, 2022 (Nintendo Switch), Dec 07, 2020 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Christmas. Christmas never changes. Soon those overzealous little freaks will swarm the city led by that bearded maniac. But this time, we fight back. Inspired by Zombies Ate My Neighbors and Beavis&Butthead's heavy metal comedy, this is twin-stick mayhem like you've never experienced before.

84%
positive of 68 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
4.06★
PlayStation Store rating (79 ratings)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$1.04
steam price (US)

Danger's rife in the Headbangers brotherhood. The bearded maniac, Santa himself, has you down on his naughty list. Your crime? Not having succumbed to the consumerist Christmas frenzy last year. You didn't buy your hideous wooly jumper. You didn't buy, gift and receive enough presents. And, worst of all, you didn't make a Christmas tree! You, and your fellow rebel scoundrels, are not gonna ruin the sanctity of THE celebration of the Santanic Kult! The Big Red One's sending his craziest minions to quell your non-conformist antics. Let's introduce them to the untamed power of Heavy Metal! * Tw(Storyline via IGDB)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 5 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 29% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (15 reviews).
  • · Top 47% of 25,752 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 1.4k–3.1k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 68 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

Microsoft Store$5.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

12-month high $5.99 · on sale 0 of 4 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
151520202026Week of 2020-12-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam CloudFamily Sharing

Player tags

2D2.5DArcadeShooterIsometricRogue-likeRogue-liteBullet HellPerma DeathHero Shooter

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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