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Jamestown cover art

Jamestown

Final Form Games · 2011-06-08

Steam

ActionIndie

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative

Releases: Jun 08, 2011 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Jun 08, 2011 (Linux), Jun 08, 2011 (Mac)

Jamestown: Legend Of The Lost Colony is a neo-classical top-down shooter for up to 4 players, set on 17th-century British Colonial Mars. It features all the intensity, depth, and lovingly handcrafted pixels of a classic arcade shooter, with a modern twist: deeply-integrated cooperative gameplay.

1
playing now
94%
positive of 2.4k reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
500,000–1,000,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
78/100
critic score (1 outlets, IGDB)
78/100
IGDB user rating (18 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$9.99
steam price (US)

1 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 18:00 UTC (census sample)

Jamestown: Legend of the Lost Colony, also known as simply Jamestown, is a vertically scrolling shooter developed and released by Final Form Games in 2011. The game takes place on Mars in an alternate history steampunk 17th century, where the planet is an English colony contested by the Spanish and the indigenous Martians.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 1 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 5 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity up 0% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 24% of 10,903 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-30

Estimated sales: 95k–189k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 2,365 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $2.99 at Steam (2019-11-26) · bundled 1×via IsThereAnyDeal

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
101020172026Week of 2017-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2017-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

202026-08-06 22:00 — 1 players2026-08-07 06:00 — 1 players2026-08-07 14:00 — 0 players2026-08-07 22:00 — 0 players2026-08-08 06:00 — 0 players2026-08-08 14:00 — 2 players2026-08-08 22:00 — 1 players2026-08-09 06:00 — 2 players2026-08-09 14:00 — 0 players2026-08-09 22:00 — 0 players2026-08-10 06:00 — 0 players2026-08-10 14:00 — 0 players2026-08-10 22:00 — 0 players2026-08-11 06:00 — 1 players2026-08-11 14:00 — 0 players2026-08-12 22:00 — 0 players2026-08-14 05:00 — 0 players2026-08-15 13:00 — 1 players2026-08-16 21:00 — 0 players2026-08-18 04:00 — 1 players2026-08-19 12:00 — 1 players2026-08-20 19:00 — 0 players2026-08-22 03:00 — 0 players2026-08-23 10:00 — 0 players2026-08-24 18:00 — 0 players2026-08-26 02:00 — 2 players2026-08-27 10:00 — 0 players2026-08-28 18:00 — 0 players2026-08-30 02:00 — 0 players2026-08-30 18:00 — 1 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$14.99$2.992015-01-012021-03-112015-01-01 — best price $4.992015-01-02 — best price $9.992015-06-11 — best price $3.992015-06-22 — best price $9.992018-11-05 — best price $14.992018-11-19 — best price $9.992019-10-07 — best price $4.992019-10-14 — best price $9.992019-11-26 — best price $2.992019-12-03 — best price $9.992021-03-11 — best price $4.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

2862026-06-01 — 13 pageviews2026-06-04 — 16 pageviews2026-06-07 — 13 pageviews2026-06-10 — 15 pageviews2026-06-13 — 22 pageviews2026-06-16 — 11 pageviews2026-06-19 — 14 pageviews2026-06-22 — 16 pageviews2026-06-25 — 7 pageviews2026-06-28 — 10 pageviews2026-07-01 — 17 pageviews2026-07-04 — 6 pageviews2026-07-07 — 8 pageviews2026-07-10 — 13 pageviews2026-07-13 — 7 pageviews2026-07-16 — 11 pageviews2026-07-19 — 13 pageviews2026-07-22 — 8 pageviews2026-07-25 — 13 pageviews2026-07-28 — 12 pageviews2026-07-31 — 17 pageviews2026-08-03 — 13 pageviews2026-08-06 — 11 pageviews2026-08-09 — 12 pageviews2026-08-12 — 8 pageviews2026-08-15 — 12 pageviews2026-08-18 — 20 pageviews2026-08-21 — 14 pageviews2026-08-24 — 17 pageviews2026-08-27 — 23 pageviews2026-08-29 — 10 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

42
achievements tracked
88.9%
earned "Tyrannicide"
11.1%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSFull controller supportSingle-playerMulti-playerPvPShared/Split Screen PvPCo-opShared/Split Screen Co-opShared/Split ScreenSteam AchievementsFull controller supportStats1 DLC

1 supported languages: English

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)29,0700%42

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

2DCo-opIndieRetroActionArcadeDifficultSteampunkBullet HellLocal Co-Op

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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