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Kotama and Academy Citadel

Atomstring Games · 2P Games · 2026-01-14

Steam

ActionAdventureIndieRPG

Modes: Single player

Releases: Jan 15, 2026 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Jan 15, 2026 (Linux)

In the Academy Citadel, strength reigns supreme: only the most powerful survive and thrive. Fight your way through the high-tech Academy in your quest to get the highest of honors for a student, and uncover secrets that can save it in its direst crisis in this 2.5D side-scrolling Metroidvania.

Kotama and Academy Citadel is an Action, Adventure, Indie, and RPG game released in 2026, priced at $19.99, with a Very Positive review sentiment (81% of 2858 reviews).

81%
positive of 2.9k reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$19.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Healthy
  • · 267 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~33/week).
  • · Review velocity up 50% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (1,159 reviews).
  • · Top 22% of 10,936 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 57k–129k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 2,858 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $13.69 at Fanatical (2026-08-03) · bundled 1×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $19.99 · on sale 5 of 12 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
83783720262026Week of 2026-01-15: 837 positiveWeek of 2026-01-15: 322 negativeWeek of 2026-01-22: 229 positiveWeek of 2026-01-22: 54 negativeWeek of 2026-01-29: 121 positiveWeek of 2026-01-29: 24 negativeWeek of 2026-02-05: 61 positiveWeek of 2026-02-05: 13 negativeWeek of 2026-02-12: 36 positiveWeek of 2026-02-12: 9 negativeWeek of 2026-02-19: 41 positiveWeek of 2026-02-19: 8 negativeWeek of 2026-02-26: 17 positiveWeek of 2026-02-26: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-03-05: 21 positiveWeek of 2026-03-05: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-03-12: 23 positiveWeek of 2026-03-12: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-03-19: 41 positiveWeek of 2026-03-19: 9 negativeWeek of 2026-03-26: 30 positiveWeek of 2026-03-26: 7 negativeWeek of 2026-04-02: 42 positiveWeek of 2026-04-02: 9 negativeWeek of 2026-04-09: 24 positiveWeek of 2026-04-09: 6 negativeWeek of 2026-04-16: 15 positiveWeek of 2026-04-16: 5 negativeWeek of 2026-04-23: 18 positiveWeek of 2026-04-23: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-04-30: 24 positiveWeek of 2026-04-30: 7 negativeWeek of 2026-05-07: 18 positiveWeek of 2026-05-07: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-05-14: 22 positiveWeek of 2026-05-14: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-05-21: 15 positiveWeek of 2026-05-21: 5 negativeWeek of 2026-05-28: 14 positiveWeek of 2026-05-28: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-06-04: 19 positiveWeek of 2026-06-04: 5 negativeWeek of 2026-06-11: 19 positiveWeek of 2026-06-11: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-06-18: 35 positiveWeek of 2026-06-18: 21 negativeWeek of 2026-06-25: 37 positiveWeek of 2026-06-25: 5 negativeWeek of 2026-07-02: 37 positiveWeek of 2026-07-02: 10 negativeWeek of 2026-07-09: 28 positiveWeek of 2026-07-09: 5 negativeWeek of 2026-07-16: 20 positiveWeek of 2026-07-16: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-23: 23 positiveWeek of 2026-07-23: 5 negativeWeek of 2026-07-30: 15 positiveWeek of 2026-07-30: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-08-06: 8 positiveWeek of 2026-08-06: 4 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$19.99$13.692026-01-152026-08-032026-01-15 — best price $17.992026-01-28 — best price $19.992026-03-19 — best price $16.992026-03-26 — best price $19.992026-04-27 — best price $16.992026-05-05 — best price $19.992026-06-16 — best price $15.992026-06-17 — best price $19.992026-06-23 — best price $19.992026-06-25 — best price $15.992026-07-09 — best price $19.992026-08-03 — best price $13.69
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

40
achievements tracked
81.2%
earned "The Candidate"
29%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsLinuxFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam Trading CardsGamepad RecommendedDualShock Controller SupportDualSense Controller SupportSteam CloudFamily Sharing1 DLC

8 supported languages: English, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Korean, French, German, Russian

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)60717%40

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.

Census log

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

Recent updates

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