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Neon Ships: The Type'em Up Shooter cover art

Neon Ships: The Type'em Up Shooter

Sensen Games · 2021-02-11

Steam

ActionCasualIndie

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Bird view / Isometric

Releases: Feb 11, 2021 (Linux), Feb 11, 2021 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Feb 11, 2021 (Mac)

Shoot enemies while typing pop culture phrases to destroy enemies with your special laser attack! This is a classic Shoot'em up game with a typing twist! We challenge you to dodge all the shots and destroy all the enemies!

88%
positive of 51 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
$4.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 9 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 18% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 71% of 13,327 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 1.0k–2.3k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 51 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.79 at Steam (2021-12-10)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $4.99 · on sale 12 of 17 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
222220212026Week of 2021-02-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$4.99$0.792021-02-112026-08-212021-02-11 — best price $0.892021-04-05 — best price $1.492021-05-31 — best price $1.992021-08-12 — best price $1.492021-10-22 — best price $1.992021-11-24 — best price $1.192021-12-17 — best price $1.992022-04-14 — best price $1.492022-05-27 — best price $1.992022-12-22 — best price $1.172023-06-29 — best price $1.592023-08-19 — best price $1.992023-10-02 — best price $3.992023-11-21 — best price $0.952023-12-23 — best price $3.992024-03-07 — best price $1.992024-03-21 — best price $3.992024-06-06 — best price $1.992024-07-11 — best price $3.992024-09-19 — best price $1.992024-11-09 — best price $3.992024-12-20 — best price $2.392025-02-13 — best price $2.792025-03-20 — best price $3.992025-05-22 — best price $2.792025-07-10 — best price $2.792025-08-30 — best price $3.992025-10-27 — best price $2.792026-01-05 — best price $3.992026-02-23 — best price $4.992026-06-08 — best price $3.242026-07-09 — best price $4.992026-08-21 — best price $4.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam CloudStatsSteam LeaderboardsFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Player tags

2DIndieRetroArcadeModernTypingSpellingDifficultWord GameBullet Hell

Census log

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

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