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Idol Showdown cover art

Idol Showdown

Besto Game Team · holo Indie · 2023-05-05

Steam

ActionIndie

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer · Perspectives: Side view

Releases: May 05, 2023 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Made by hololive fans, for hololive fans. Idol Showdown is the definitive fan-made hololive fighting game experience, powered by rollback netcode. Engage in exciting duels as your favorite hololive talent and prove once and for all who the strongest idol is using the game’s easy-to-learn controls.

Idol Showdown is a 2023 Action and Indie title that is free-to-play, with a Very Positive review sentiment (94% of 5839 reviews).

94%
positive of 5.9k reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
66/100
IGDB user rating (8 ratings)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
Free
steam price (US)
Idol Showdown is a 2023 fighting game developed by Besto Games. It is a freeware fan game featuring VTubers from Hololive Production as the playable fighters. The game received positive reception on release, and the developers announced plans to continue adding additional characters to the game in updates.

Trailer

Idol Showdown trailer thumbnail

Idol Showdown: Official Launch Trailer | hololive Fighting Game

≈653,175 YouTube results for this game's trailer search

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 185 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~23/week).
  • · Review velocity down 27% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (3,587 reviews).
  • · Top 6% of 27,661 Action games in the census by review count.

Review momentum

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3.4k3.4k20232026Week of 2023-05-01: 3,362 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 225 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 207 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 21 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 122 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 16 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 179 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 22 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 94 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 83 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 551 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 81 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 69 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 50 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 53 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 55 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 157 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 18 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 59 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 70 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 43 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 46 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 33 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 41 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 44 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 36 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 38 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 34 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 26 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 50 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 43 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 28 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 37 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 11 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Attention

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Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerMulti-playerPvPOnline PvPShared/Split Screen PvPShared/Split ScreenPartial Controller SupportSteam CloudFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Where its players are

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

Player tags

2DPvPAnimeIndie1990'sActionArcadeCombatFantasyFighting

Census log

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

Recent updates

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