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Neon Hardcorps cover art

Neon Hardcorps

Sergey Dovganovskiy · Back To Basics Gaming · 2016-05-30

Steam

ActionIndie

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Bird view / Isometric

Releases: May 30, 2016 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Neon Hardcorps is a fast paced top down action shooter, inspired by games such as Contra, Metal Slug, Super Turrican, Cybernator, Realm and Doom Troopers.

Neon Hardcorps is a 2016 Action Indie game priced at $1.99, with an estimated 500,000 to 1,000,000 owners and a Mixed review sentiment (47% of 315 reviews).— census verdict as of 2026-09-20

2
playing now
47%
positive of 314 reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
500,000–1,000,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
40/100
IGDB user rating (0 ratings)
silver
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$1.99
steam price (US)

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

Health check

Quiet
  • · 2 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 6 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 25% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (18 reviews).
  • · Top 25% of 27,908 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-01

Estimated sales: 7.8k–19k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 314 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.01 at Steam (2016-06-28) · bundled 5×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $1.99 · on sale 8 of 15 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
111120162026Week of 2016-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-06-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2016-06-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2016-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2016-07-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2016-08-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2016-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2016-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

502026-09-15 13:00 — 1 players2026-09-16 21:00 — 2 players2026-09-18 05:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 12:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 20:00 — 1 players2026-09-22 03:00 — 1 players2026-09-23 11:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 18:00 — 0 players2026-09-26 02:00 — 1 players2026-09-27 09:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 17:00 — 2 players2026-09-30 00:00 — 2 players2026-10-01 08:00 — 1 players2026-10-02 15:00 — 2 players2026-10-03 23:00 — 2 players2026-10-05 07:00 — 3 players2026-10-06 15:00 — 5 players2026-10-07 22:00 — 4 players2026-10-09 06:00 — 1 players2026-10-10 13:00 — 3 players2026-10-11 21:00 — 3 players2026-10-13 04:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 12:00 — 0 players2026-10-15 04:00 — 2 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
3200Mar 2016May 2025Mar 2016 — avg 3 · peak 35Jun 2016 — avg 34 · peak 137Sep 2016 — avg 3 · peak 20Dec 2016 — avg 8 · peak 259Mar 2017 — avg 50 · peak 347Jun 2017 — avg 38 · peak 428Sep 2017 — avg 45 · peak 606Dec 2017 — avg 6 · peak 60Mar 2018 — avg 3 · peak 23Jun 2018 — avg 1 · peak 23Sep 2018 — avg 3 · peak 497Dec 2018 — avg 1 · peak 41Mar 2019 — avg 0 · peak 3Jun 2019 — avg 0 · peak 3Sep 2019 — avg 0 · peak 2Jan 2020 — avg 1 · peak 4Apr 2020 — avg 82 · peak 5,876Aug 2020 — avg 59 · peak 1,725Nov 2020 — avg 105 · peak 1,958Feb 2021 — avg 4 · peak 50Jun 2021 — avg 22 · peak 129Dec 2021 — avg 32 · peak 206Mar 2022 — avg 1 · peak 3Jul 2022 — avg 13 · peak 274Oct 2022 — avg 7 · peak 566Jan 2023 — avg 12 · peak 470Apr 2023 — avg 13 · peak 119Jul 2023 — avg 38 · peak 308Oct 2024 — avg 1 · peak 3May 2025 — avg 2 · peak 5
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$1.99$0.012016-03-182026-07-092016-03-18 — best price $1.192016-05-30 — best price $1.992016-08-12 — best price $0.992016-11-29 — best price $0.992017-02-04 — best price $0.992017-07-05 — best price $0.992017-11-01 — best price $0.992018-01-24 — best price $0.992018-04-07 — best price $0.992018-08-29 — best price $0.992019-01-03 — best price $0.992019-03-19 — best price $0.992019-11-01 — best price $0.992020-01-27 — best price $0.992020-07-09 — best price $0.992020-11-25 — best price $0.492021-02-11 — best price $0.492021-12-26 — best price $0.492022-02-28 — best price $1.992022-06-22 — best price $1.992022-08-25 — best price $1.992022-12-13 — best price $1.992023-03-15 — best price $1.992023-04-28 — best price $1.992023-08-08 — best price $1.992023-11-28 — best price $1.992024-02-03 — best price $1.992024-05-01 — best price $1.992024-07-11 — best price $1.992024-11-04 — best price $1.992025-01-02 — best price $1.992025-03-20 — best price $1.992025-07-10 — best price $1.992025-10-06 — best price $1.992026-01-05 — best price $1.992026-03-18 — best price $1.992026-05-11 — best price $1.992026-07-09 — best price $1.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam Trading CardsFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Player tags

IndieActionTop-DownPixel Graphics

Census log

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

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