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Jupiter Hell

ChaosForge · Hyperstrange · 2021-08-05

SteamGOG

IndieRPGStrategy

Modes: Single player

Releases: Feb 20, 2025 (Nintendo Switch), Aug 05, 2021 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Aug 05, 2021 (Linux), Aug 05, 2021 (Mac)

True Roguelike. Turn-based shooter. Permadeath. Tribute to the sci-fi classics of the Golden VHS era. Successor to DRL. Just you and your gun against hordes of horrors and monstrosities. Give them hell to the rhythm of heavy metal.

Jupiter Hell is an Indie, RPG, Strategy game released in 2021, priced at $24.99, with an estimated 50,000 .. 100,000 owners and a Very Positive review sentiment (92% of 2117 reviews).

17
playing now
92%
positive of 2.1k reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
90/100
critic score (1 outlets, IGDB)
72/100
IGDB user rating (8 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$24.99
steam price (US)

17 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 17:00 UTC (census sample)

Jupiter Hell is a roguelike video game developed by ChaosForge and published in 2021 by Hyperstrange. It is a spiritual successor to DRL and adapts first-person shooter gameplay to a tactical roguelike.

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 17 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 70 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~9/week).
  • · Review velocity down 28% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (446 reviews).
  • · Top 7% of 49,616 Indie games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 42k–95k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 2,117 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

GOG$7.49-70%
GOG$7.49-70%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $7.49 at Steam (2024-08-06) · bundled 4×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $24.99 · on sale 64 of 103 observed days · at its all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
41641620192026Week of 2019-08-01: 69 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2019-09-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-11-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-12-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 416 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 30 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 42 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 48 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 46 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 31 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 26 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 42 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 29 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 58 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 3 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

2642026-09-15 02:00 — 24 players2026-09-16 10:00 — 13 players2026-09-17 18:00 — 26 players2026-09-19 01:00 — 17 players2026-09-20 09:00 — 14 players2026-09-21 17:00 — 16 players2026-09-23 00:00 — 13 players2026-09-24 08:00 — 11 players2026-09-25 15:00 — 18 players2026-09-26 23:00 — 21 players2026-09-28 06:00 — 10 players2026-09-29 14:00 — 12 players2026-09-30 21:00 — 11 players2026-10-02 05:00 — 7 players2026-10-03 12:00 — 11 players2026-10-04 20:00 — 26 players2026-10-06 04:00 — 17 players2026-10-07 11:00 — 7 players2026-10-08 19:00 — 17 players2026-10-10 02:00 — 11 players2026-10-11 10:00 — 8 players2026-10-12 18:00 — 19 players2026-10-14 01:00 — 16 players2026-10-14 17:00 — 17 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
2013Aug 2019Aug 2026Aug 2019 — avg 18 · peak 77Nov 2019 — avg 3 · peak 13Feb 2020 — avg 5 · peak 14May 2020 — avg 8 · peak 29Aug 2020 — avg 5 · peak 19Nov 2020 — avg 7 · peak 19Feb 2021 — avg 8 · peak 35May 2021 — avg 10 · peak 29Aug 2021 — avg 201 · peak 655Nov 2021 — avg 25 · peak 58Feb 2022 — avg 23 · peak 50May 2022 — avg 20 · peak 48Aug 2022 — avg 35 · peak 102Nov 2022 — avg 18 · peak 37Feb 2023 — avg 19 · peak 50May 2023 — avg 17 · peak 51Aug 2023 — avg 48 · peak 180Nov 2023 — avg 22 · peak 46Feb 2024 — avg 16 · peak 36May 2024 — avg 22 · peak 45Aug 2024 — avg 54 · peak 205Nov 2024 — avg 19 · peak 42Feb 2025 — avg 16 · peak 37May 2025 — avg 14 · peak 30Aug 2025 — avg 22 · peak 45Nov 2025 — avg 14 · peak 35Feb 2026 — avg 11 · peak 25May 2026 — avg 10 · peak 20Aug 2026 — avg 20 · peak 45
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$24.99$7.492019-08-012026-10-142019-08-01 — best price $22.492019-11-12 — best price $24.992020-01-06 — best price $24.992020-01-23 — best price $19.992020-05-04 — best price $24.992020-08-28 — best price $19.992020-12-01 — best price $24.992021-02-11 — best price $19.992021-05-31 — best price $19.992021-10-11 — best price $19.992021-12-13 — best price $19.992022-04-08 — best price $17.492022-09-06 — best price $24.992022-11-22 — best price $16.242023-01-09 — best price $24.992023-04-04 — best price $24.992023-09-18 — best price $9.992023-12-11 — best price $24.992024-04-01 — best price $9.992024-06-14 — best price $24.992024-08-21 — best price $24.992024-11-05 — best price $24.992025-01-08 — best price $7.492025-04-03 — best price $7.492025-08-01 — best price $7.492025-09-18 — best price $7.492025-10-27 — best price $7.492025-12-24 — best price $12.492026-03-09 — best price $7.492026-04-11 — best price $24.992026-06-03 — best price $7.492026-08-14 — best price $7.492026-09-04 — best price $7.492026-09-14 — best price $24.992026-09-24 — best price $24.992026-10-04 — best price $24.992026-10-14 — best price $7.49
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

3442026-05-23 — 10 pageviews2026-05-27 — 10 pageviews2026-05-31 — 14 pageviews2026-06-04 — 28 pageviews2026-06-08 — 23 pageviews2026-06-12 — 4 pageviews2026-06-16 — 13 pageviews2026-06-20 — 8 pageviews2026-06-24 — 17 pageviews2026-06-28 — 14 pageviews2026-07-02 — 10 pageviews2026-07-06 — 14 pageviews2026-07-10 — 12 pageviews2026-07-14 — 12 pageviews2026-07-18 — 8 pageviews2026-07-22 — 14 pageviews2026-07-26 — 19 pageviews2026-07-30 — 9 pageviews2026-08-03 — 11 pageviews2026-08-07 — 13 pageviews2026-08-11 — 16 pageviews2026-08-15 — 15 pageviews2026-08-19 — 18 pageviews2026-08-23 — 17 pageviews2026-08-27 — 16 pageviews2026-08-31 — 9 pageviews2026-09-04 — 16 pageviews2026-09-08 — 11 pageviews2026-09-12 — 13 pageviews2026-09-16 — 9 pageviews2026-09-20 — 9 pageviews2026-09-24 — 7 pageviews2026-09-28 — 7 pageviews2026-10-02 — 16 pageviews2026-10-06 — 11 pageviews2026-10-10 — 6 pageviews2026-10-12 — 9 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

26
achievements tracked
89.5%
earned "It begins"
1.5%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsLinuxFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam WorkshopSteam CloudFamily Sharing

3 supported languages: English, German, Polish

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)3,6861%26
Switch (Nintendo)100%0

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

Where its players are

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

Player tags

RPGGoreIndieHorrorSci-fiViolentStrategyTop-DownRogue-likeTurn-Based

Census log

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

Recent updates

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Similarity via IGDB.

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