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Lost Patrol

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

Steam

ActionRPGSimulation

Modes: Single player

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.

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

0 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 04:00 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

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  • · Top 99% of 10,936 Action games in the census by review count.

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

12-month high $5.99 · on sale 2 of 4 observed days (census price snapshots)

Players online

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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

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

Details

WindowsSingle-playerPartial Controller SupportFamily Sharing

3 supported languages: English, French, German

Census log

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

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