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Kaiju Wars

Foolish Mortals Games · 2022-04-28

SteamPlayStation StoreMicrosoft Store

IndieStrategy

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer · Perspectives: Bird view / Isometric

Releases: Apr 28, 2022 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Nov 10, 2022 (PlayStation 4), Dec 20, 2022 (Nintendo Switch), Oct 27, 2022 (Xbox One)

Play out a Kaiju movie as the (hopelessly) outclassed military in this stylish 2D turn-based strategy game. Construct buildings and defend your city with cannon-fodder tanks, jets and more as the devastating kaiju grow in power with every attack.

Kaiju Wars is an Indie and Strategy game released in 2022, priced at $19.99, with an estimated owner base of 50,000 .. 100,000 and a review sentiment of Mostly Positive (76% of 275 reviews).

0
playing now
76%
positive of 275 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
78/100
critic score (1 outlets, IGDB)
4.24★
PlayStation Store rating (45 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$19.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 19:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 13 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity down 28% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (46 reviews).
  • · Top 21% of 50,052 Indie games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 5.5k–12k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 275 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

Steam$2.99-85%
Microsoft Store$19.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $2.79 at Steam (2024-06-27) · bundled 1×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $19.99 · on sale 11 of 22 observed days · $17.20 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
444420222026Week of 2022-04-01: 35 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 44 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

302026-09-15 20:00 — 0 players2026-09-17 04:00 — 0 players2026-09-18 11:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 19:00 — 0 players2026-09-21 02:00 — 0 players2026-09-22 10:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 18:00 — 1 players2026-09-25 01:00 — 0 players2026-09-26 09:00 — 0 players2026-09-27 16:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 00:00 — 1 players2026-09-30 07:00 — 0 players2026-10-01 15:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 22:00 — 0 players2026-10-04 06:00 — 0 players2026-10-05 14:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 21:00 — 0 players2026-10-08 05:00 — 0 players2026-10-09 12:00 — 1 players2026-10-10 20:00 — 1 players2026-10-12 04:00 — 0 players2026-10-13 11:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 19:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$19.99$2.792022-04-282026-10-152022-04-28 — best price $17.992022-06-15 — best price $19.992022-08-08 — best price $19.992022-09-22 — best price $19.992022-11-18 — best price $9.992022-12-02 — best price $19.992022-12-22 — best price $7.992023-01-23 — best price $4.992023-03-16 — best price $4.992023-04-24 — best price $4.992023-07-13 — best price $19.992023-11-13 — best price $4.992023-11-28 — best price $19.992024-02-12 — best price $2.992024-03-21 — best price $19.992024-06-27 — best price $2.792024-11-20 — best price $19.992024-12-19 — best price $2.792025-02-17 — best price $19.992025-06-26 — best price $5.992025-10-06 — best price $19.992025-12-18 — best price $3.992026-03-26 — best price $19.992026-08-27 — best price $19.992026-09-17 — best price $19.992026-10-02 — best price $2.992026-10-05 — best price $2.992026-10-08 — best price $2.992026-10-15 — best price $19.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

24
achievements tracked
73.6%
earned "The Mayor"
3%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxSingle-playerMulti-playerPvPShared/Split Screen PvPShared/Split ScreenSteam AchievementsSteam WorkshopPartial Controller SupportSteam CloudSteam Leaderboards1 DLC

8 supported languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Korean

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2022-04-30 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)6381%24
Xbox One (Xbox)20939%26
PS4 (PlayStation)7928%27
PS4 (PlayStation)5535%27
Switch (Nintendo)130%0

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

Player tags

2DPvEMechsActionSci-fiColorfulStrategyStylizedTacticalAdventure

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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