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Lost Patrol cover art

Lost Patrol

Shadow Development · Pixel Games UK · 2020-09-02

Steam

ActionRPGSimulation

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: First person, Side view

Releases: Jun 01, 1991 (DOS), Sep 02, 2020 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), 1990 (Atari ST/STE), 1990 (Amiga)

"We’re fit, we’re alive, but we’re not back home" In this classic multi-genre DOS game, take command of the seven survivors of a U.S. helicopter crash in Vietnam, desperately trekking across 57 miles of harsh terrain infested with booby traps and enemy soldiers.

Lost Patrol is a 2020 Action, RPG, and Simulation game priced at $5.99, estimated to have 200,000 to 500,000 owners, with a Mostly Negative review sentiment (30% of 10 reviews).— census verdict as of 2026-09-20

0
playing now
30%
positive of 10 reviews
Mostly Negative
steam's rating (official)
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
$5.99
steam price (US)

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

Lost Patrol, also known as The Lost Patrol, is a survival action role-playing strategy video game developed by Shadow Development and published by Ocean Software for the Amiga and Atari ST computers in 1990. An MS-DOS port by Astros Productions was published in 1991. Set during the Vietnam War, the game follows a squad of United States Army soldiers who are stranded behind enemy lines after their helicopter crashes, and must reach a U.S. military outpost for rescue.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 9 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Top 98% of 27,667 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-03

All-time low: $2.39 at Steam (2022-07-25)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $5.99 · on sale 1 of 2 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
2220202024Week of 2020-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

002026-09-14 23:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 07:00 — 0 players2026-09-17 15:00 — 0 players2026-09-18 22:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 06:00 — 0 players2026-09-21 14:00 — 0 players2026-09-22 21:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 05:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 12:00 — 0 players2026-09-26 20:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 03:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 11:00 — 0 players2026-09-30 18:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 02:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 09:00 — 0 players2026-10-04 17:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 01:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 08:00 — 0 players2026-10-08 16:00 — 0 players2026-10-09 23:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 07:00 — 0 players2026-10-12 15:00 — 0 players2026-10-13 22:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 14:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$5.99$2.392020-09-022026-03-262020-09-02 — best price $5.092020-09-09 — best price $5.992021-11-24 — best price $4.192021-12-01 — best price $5.992022-07-25 — best price $2.392022-08-01 — best price $5.992023-06-29 — best price $2.992023-07-13 — best price $5.992023-12-21 — best price $2.992024-01-04 — best price $5.992024-03-14 — best price $3.892024-03-21 — best price $5.992024-06-27 — best price $2.992024-07-11 — best price $5.992024-12-20 — best price $2.992025-01-02 — best price $5.992025-03-13 — best price $2.992025-03-20 — best price $5.992025-04-28 — best price $2.992025-05-05 — best price $5.992025-06-26 — best price $2.992025-07-10 — best price $5.992025-10-01 — best price $2.992025-10-06 — best price $5.992026-03-19 — best price $2.992026-03-26 — best price $5.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

2622026-06-01 — 8 pageviews2026-06-05 — 2 pageviews2026-06-09 — 9 pageviews2026-06-13 — 9 pageviews2026-06-17 — 23 pageviews2026-06-21 — 4 pageviews2026-06-25 — 6 pageviews2026-06-29 — 10 pageviews2026-07-03 — 10 pageviews2026-07-07 — 4 pageviews2026-07-11 — 8 pageviews2026-07-15 — 8 pageviews2026-07-19 — 11 pageviews2026-07-23 — 5 pageviews2026-07-27 — 12 pageviews2026-07-31 — 10 pageviews2026-08-04 — 10 pageviews2026-08-08 — 8 pageviews2026-08-12 — 25 pageviews2026-08-16 — 5 pageviews2026-08-20 — 12 pageviews2026-08-24 — 14 pageviews2026-08-28 — 8 pageviews2026-09-01 — 25 pageviews2026-09-05 — 7 pageviews2026-09-09 — 10 pageviews2026-09-13 — 12 pageviews2026-09-17 — 8 pageviews2026-09-21 — 15 pageviews2026-09-25 — 4 pageviews2026-09-29 — 12 pageviews2026-10-03 — 8 pageviews2026-10-07 — 9 pageviews2026-10-10 — 4 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerPartial Controller SupportFamily Sharing

3 supported languages: English, French, German

Player tags

2DFPSRPGWarTanksSniperShooterStealthWargameSurvival

Census log

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

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