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Kaiju Wars cover art

Kaiju Wars

Foolish Mortals Games · 2022-04-28

SteamPlayStation StoreMicrosoft Store

IndieStrategy

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer

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.

0
playing now
76%
positive of 275 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam rating
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
78/100
critic score (1 outlets, IGDB)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$19.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 09:00 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 46% of 18,324 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

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 5 of 11 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

202026-08-11 22:00 — 1 players2026-08-12 14:00 — 1 players2026-08-13 06:00 — 1 players2026-08-13 22:00 — 0 players2026-08-14 13:00 — 0 players2026-08-15 05:00 — 1 players2026-08-15 21:00 — 2 players2026-08-16 13:00 — 0 players2026-08-17 05:00 — 0 players2026-08-17 21:00 — 0 players2026-08-18 13:00 — 0 players2026-08-19 04:00 — 1 players2026-08-19 20:00 — 0 players2026-08-20 12:00 — 0 players2026-08-21 04:00 — 0 players2026-08-21 19:00 — 1 players2026-08-23 00:00 — 0 players2026-08-23 16:00 — 0 players2026-08-24 08:00 — 0 players2026-08-25 00:00 — 1 players2026-08-25 16:00 — 0 players2026-08-26 08:00 — 0 players2026-08-27 00:00 — 0 players2026-08-27 16:00 — 1 players2026-08-28 08:00 — 0 players2026-08-29 00:00 — 0 players2026-08-29 16:00 — 1 players2026-08-30 09:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$19.99$2.792022-04-282026-08-272022-04-28 — best price $17.992022-06-02 — best price $16.992022-06-24 — best price $16.992022-08-08 — best price $19.992022-09-19 — best price $19.992022-10-24 — best price $9.992022-11-18 — best price $9.992022-11-29 — best price $19.992022-12-08 — best price $7.992022-12-22 — best price $7.992023-01-20 — best price $7.992023-01-30 — best price $19.992023-03-16 — best price $4.992023-04-17 — best price $7.992023-05-01 — best price $19.992023-07-13 — best price $19.992023-09-04 — best price $19.992023-11-14 — best price $3.992023-11-28 — best price $19.992024-01-04 — best price $19.992024-02-19 — best price $19.992024-03-21 — best price $19.992024-04-08 — best price $19.992024-07-11 — best price $19.992024-11-20 — best price $19.992024-12-04 — best price $19.992025-01-02 — best price $19.992025-02-17 — best price $19.992025-03-20 — best price $19.992025-07-10 — best price $19.992025-10-06 — best price $19.992025-12-04 — best price $19.992026-01-05 — best price $19.992026-03-26 — best price $19.992026-07-09 — best price $19.992026-08-27 — 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

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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