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KickBeat Steam Edition cover art

KickBeat Steam Edition

Zen Studios · 2014-01-20

Steam

ActionIndie

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer

Releases: Sep 13, 2013 (PlayStation Vita), Jan 20, 2014 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Sep 13, 2013 (PlayStation 3)

From indie pioneers Zen Studios (makers of Pinball FX2 and CastleStorm) comes KickBeat, an innovative rhythm game with a Kung Fu theme, featuring fully 3D characters and high-energy music! You can use your own music to create custom KickBeat tracks, allowing you ultimate replayability!

0
playing now
67%
positive of 772 reviews
Mixed
steam rating
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
70/100
IGDB user rating (8 ratings)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$9.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 05:00 UTC (census sample)

KickBeat is a martial arts-themed rhythm action game developed by Zen Studios. The mechanics are similar to those of Gitaroo Man and Dance Dance Revolution, where the player must press a button corresponding to one of four directions at the correct time.

Health check

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 39% of 10,791 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 19k–46k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 772 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.99 at Steam (2020-08-03) · bundled 3×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $9.99 · on sale 5 of 10 observed days (census price snapshots)

Players online

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Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$9.99$0.992015-01-012026-07-092015-01-01 — best price $4.992015-06-22 — best price $9.992016-06-23 — best price $1.992016-11-29 — best price $9.992017-01-23 — best price $4.992017-07-05 — best price $9.992017-11-22 — best price $1.992018-01-04 — best price $9.992018-06-21 — best price $1.992018-11-27 — best price $9.992019-06-25 — best price $1.992019-12-03 — best price $9.992020-06-25 — best price $1.992020-08-10 — best price $9.992020-11-25 — best price $0.992021-01-05 — best price $9.992021-06-24 — best price $1.992021-12-01 — best price $9.992022-01-27 — best price $0.992022-07-07 — best price $9.992022-12-22 — best price $1.992023-03-23 — best price $9.992023-11-21 — best price $3.392024-01-04 — best price $9.992024-06-27 — best price $3.492024-08-26 — best price $9.992024-12-19 — best price $2.992025-02-17 — best price $9.992025-06-26 — best price $2.992025-10-06 — best price $9.992026-02-13 — best price $1.992026-03-26 — best price $9.992026-07-09 — best price $9.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

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Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam Trading CardsSteam CloudSteam LeaderboardsFamily Sharing

4 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)4,8731%42

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

Player tags

IndieMusicActionRhythmFightingMartial ArtsSingleplayerGreat SoundtrackMusic-Based Procedural Generation

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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