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Jet Buster cover art

Jet Buster

Team Grybanser Fox · 2017-10-24

Steam

ActionIndie

Modes: Single player

Releases: Oct 24, 2017 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Jet Buster is the new 90s anthro shmup, going back to the cuter roots of the genre.

90%
positive of 62 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$9.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 11 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity up 57% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 58% of 18,511 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 1.6k–3.7k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 62 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $1.99 at Steam (2018-06-22) · bundled 4×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $9.99 · on sale 2 of 4 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
3320172026Week of 2017-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$9.99$1.992017-10-252026-07-092017-10-25 — best price $6.992017-11-28 — best price $9.992018-02-15 — best price $4.992018-07-05 — best price $9.992018-11-06 — best price $1.992018-11-27 — best price $9.992019-02-04 — best price $1.992019-05-13 — best price $9.992019-09-05 — best price $1.992019-11-01 — best price $9.992019-12-20 — best price $1.992020-01-27 — best price $9.992020-10-29 — best price $1.992020-12-01 — best price $9.992021-02-11 — best price $1.992021-07-08 — best price $9.992021-11-24 — best price $1.992022-01-05 — best price $9.992022-06-23 — best price $1.992022-11-29 — best price $9.992023-03-16 — best price $1.992023-10-02 — best price $9.992023-12-21 — best price $1.992024-03-21 — best price $9.992024-11-27 — best price $1.992025-01-02 — best price $9.992026-03-19 — best price $1.992026-07-09 — best price $9.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam Trading CardsSteam CloudFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Player tags

CuteIndieRetroActionBullet HellShoot 'Em UpSingleplayerPixel GraphicsGreat Soundtrack

Census log

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

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