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Kandidatos cover art

Kandidatos

Shaikonina Games · 2020-09-01

Steam

ActionIndie

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer · Perspectives: Side view

Releases: Sep 01, 2020 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Aug 14, 2020 (Android)

Fight in the biggest political tournament in Brazil.

Kandidatos is a $0.99 Action and Indie title released in 2020, with an estimated 200,000 to 500,000 owners and a Very Positive review sentiment (90% of 4365 reviews).

9
playing now
90%
positive of 4.4k reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$0.99
steam price (US)

9 players in-game as of 2026-10-15 04:00 UTC (census sample)

Trailer

Kandidatos trailer thumbnail

Kandidatos Trailer

≈1,868 YouTube results for this game's trailer search

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 9 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 188 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~24/week).
  • · Review velocity up 13% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (595 reviews).
  • · Top 7% of 28,023 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 87k–196k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 4,365 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.29 at Steam (2023-01-05)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $0.99 · on sale 7 of 15 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
55355320202026Week of 2020-09-01: 553 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 42 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 78 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 388 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 17 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 74 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 33 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 54 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 69 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 46 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 87 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 61 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 61 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 57 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 40 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 62 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 56 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 60 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 70 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 39 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 49 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 38 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 28 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 41 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 47 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 26 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 46 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 49 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 42 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 37 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 71 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 52 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 59 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 44 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 34 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 29 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 74 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 34 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 29 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 29 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 45 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 33 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 42 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 26 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 26 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 37 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 32 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 30 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 30 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 29 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

3102026-09-16 06:00 — 1 players2026-09-17 13:00 — 3 players2026-09-18 21:00 — 4 players2026-09-20 04:00 — 3 players2026-09-21 12:00 — 2 players2026-09-22 20:00 — 5 players2026-09-24 03:00 — 9 players2026-09-25 11:00 — 6 players2026-09-26 18:00 — 13 players2026-09-28 02:00 — 14 players2026-09-29 09:00 — 5 players2026-09-30 17:00 — 6 players2026-10-02 00:00 — 9 players2026-10-03 08:00 — 5 players2026-10-04 16:00 — 15 players2026-10-06 00:00 — 22 players2026-10-07 07:00 — 9 players2026-10-08 15:00 — 9 players2026-10-09 22:00 — 22 players2026-10-11 06:00 — 3 players2026-10-12 13:00 — 11 players2026-10-13 21:00 — 12 players2026-10-15 04:00 — 9 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
1862Sep 2020Aug 2026Sep 2020 — avg 12 · peak 68Nov 2020 — avg 3 · peak 15Jan 2021 — avg 2 · peak 11Mar 2021 — avg 4 · peak 22May 2021 — avg 14 · peak 276Jul 2021 — avg 6 · peak 25Sep 2021 — avg 11 · peak 346Nov 2021 — avg 14 · peak 240Jan 2022 — avg 31 · peak 416Mar 2022 — avg 53 · peak 344May 2022 — avg 23 · peak 410Jul 2022 — avg 24 · peak 485Sep 2022 — avg 22 · peak 356Nov 2022 — avg 8 · peak 51Jan 2023 — avg 33 · peak 798Mar 2023 — avg 128 · peak 2,451May 2023 — avg 62 · peak 1,003Jul 2023 — avg 186 · peak 2,982Sep 2023 — avg 4 · peak 18Nov 2023 — avg 3 · peak 19Jan 2024 — avg 5 · peak 22Mar 2024 — avg 3 · peak 12May 2024 — avg 2 · peak 8Jul 2024 — avg 3 · peak 13Jan 2025 — avg 3 · peak 12Aug 2025 — avg 2 · peak 11Oct 2025 — avg 2 · peak 16Jan 2026 — avg 4 · peak 51Mar 2026 — avg 3 · peak 51May 2026 — avg 7 · peak 54Jul 2026 — avg 3 · peak 9Aug 2026 — avg 3 · peak 12
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$0.99$0.292020-09-012026-07-232020-09-01 — best price $0.542020-12-14 — best price $0.502021-02-11 — best price $0.502021-04-26 — best price $0.502021-06-24 — best price $0.502021-09-27 — best price $0.542021-11-15 — best price $0.492022-01-10 — best price $0.492022-02-28 — best price $0.492022-05-23 — best price $0.542022-07-11 — best price $0.542022-09-19 — best price $0.542022-12-23 — best price $0.542023-02-18 — best price $0.992023-05-13 — best price $0.992023-07-13 — best price $0.992023-10-12 — best price $0.992024-01-18 — best price $0.992024-03-21 — best price $0.992024-05-22 — best price $0.992024-07-22 — best price $0.992024-10-18 — best price $0.992024-12-04 — best price $0.992025-03-04 — best price $0.992025-04-17 — best price $0.992025-07-10 — best price $0.992025-09-10 — best price $0.992025-10-17 — best price $0.992026-01-12 — best price $0.992026-03-26 — best price $0.992026-05-22 — best price $0.992026-07-23 — best price $0.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerMulti-playerPvPLAN PvPShared/Split Screen PvPShared/Split ScreenSteam Trading CardsDualShock Controller SupportDualShock Controller SupportDualSense Controller Support

Where its players are

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

Player tags

PvPFunnyMemesBoxingComedySatireFightingPolitical2D Fighter3D Fighter

Census log

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

Recent updates

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