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Heavy Weapon Deluxe

PopCap Games, Inc. · 2006-08-30

Steam

Casual

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Side view

Releases: Aug 30, 2006 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

It's shoot-'em-up arcade action at its best! Use an incredible assortment of heavy artillery to blast away enemy tanks and planes, and fight your way to victory. What are you waiting for? Pull yourself up by your bootstraps and get into the action!

Heavy Weapon Deluxe is a Casual game released in 2006, priced at $4.99, with Very Positive reviews from 448 reviews and an estimated 50,000 .. 100,000 owners.

3
playing now
87%
positive of 448 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
50/100
IGDB user rating (2 ratings)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$4.99
steam price (US)

3 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 18:00 UTC (census sample)

Heavy Weapon, also referred to as Heavy Weapon: Atomic Tank, is a horizontally scrolling shooter that was both developed and published by PopCap Games and released in 2005.

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 3 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 44 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~6/week).
  • · Review velocity up 19% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 13% of 29,056 Casual games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-31

Estimated sales: 18k–36k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 448 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.99 at Steam (2021-06-25)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $4.99 · on sale 5 of 10 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
111120172026Week of 2017-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2017-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-06-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-12-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 3 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

1102026-09-15 03:00 — 1 players2026-09-16 12:00 — 0 players2026-09-17 19:00 — 3 players2026-09-19 03:00 — 1 players2026-09-20 10:00 — 3 players2026-09-21 18:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 01:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 09:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 16:00 — 1 players2026-09-27 00:00 — 2 players2026-09-28 07:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 15:00 — 4 players2026-09-30 22:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 06:00 — 1 players2026-10-03 13:00 — 0 players2026-10-04 22:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 05:00 — 1 players2026-10-07 13:00 — 5 players2026-10-08 20:00 — 3 players2026-10-10 04:00 — 1 players2026-10-11 11:00 — 5 players2026-10-12 19:00 — 1 players2026-10-14 02:00 — 1 players2026-10-14 18:00 — 3 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$4.99$0.992015-01-012026-07-092015-01-01 — best price $2.492015-06-22 — best price $4.992016-06-23 — best price $1.242016-11-29 — best price $4.992017-06-22 — best price $1.242017-11-01 — best price $4.992017-12-21 — best price $2.492018-02-19 — best price $4.992018-11-21 — best price $1.242019-01-03 — best price $4.992019-06-26 — best price $1.242019-12-03 — best price $4.992020-06-04 — best price $2.492020-12-01 — best price $4.992021-06-25 — best price $0.992021-12-01 — best price $4.992022-01-27 — best price $1.242022-07-07 — best price $4.992022-12-22 — best price $0.992024-01-04 — best price $4.992024-04-29 — best price $0.992024-07-11 — best price $4.992024-12-19 — best price $0.992025-03-27 — best price $4.992025-06-20 — best price $0.992025-10-06 — best price $4.992026-01-27 — best price $0.992026-03-26 — best price $4.992026-06-18 — best price $0.992026-07-09 — best price $4.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

57162026-05-30 — 30 pageviews2026-06-03 — 18 pageviews2026-06-07 — 23 pageviews2026-06-11 — 30 pageviews2026-06-15 — 24 pageviews2026-06-19 — 38 pageviews2026-06-23 — 24 pageviews2026-06-27 — 31 pageviews2026-07-01 — 33 pageviews2026-07-05 — 24 pageviews2026-07-09 — 19 pageviews2026-07-13 — 27 pageviews2026-07-17 — 27 pageviews2026-07-21 — 37 pageviews2026-07-25 — 20 pageviews2026-07-29 — 26 pageviews2026-08-02 — 38 pageviews2026-08-06 — 25 pageviews2026-08-10 — 32 pageviews2026-08-14 — 26 pageviews2026-08-18 — 31 pageviews2026-08-22 — 44 pageviews2026-08-26 — 25 pageviews2026-08-30 — 27 pageviews2026-09-03 — 22 pageviews2026-09-07 — 16 pageviews2026-09-11 — 21 pageviews2026-09-15 — 41 pageviews2026-09-19 — 18 pageviews2026-09-23 — 27 pageviews2026-09-27 — 30 pageviews2026-10-01 — 25 pageviews2026-10-05 — 21 pageviews2026-10-09 — 22 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Player tags

2DActionArcadeCasualBullet HellShoot 'Em UpSingleplayerSide Scroller

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.