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NIGHT-RUNNERS™ PROLOGUE

PLANET JEM · 2024-02-23

Steam

RacingSimulation

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative · Perspectives: First person, Third person, Bird view / Isometric, Side view

Releases: Feb 23, 2024 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Descend into the underworld of Japanese street racing. Set between 1990-2009, join the local street racing crews in their battle for territory control. Explore the real location open world(s), compete in wager races, battle other crews and upgrade your vehicles with detailed car customization.

NIGHT-RUNNERS™ PROLOGUE is a free-to-play Racing and Simulation game released in 2024, with an estimated 500,000 .. 1,000,000 owners and a Very Positive review sentiment (95% of 22567 reviews).

59
playing now
95%
positive of 23k reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
500,000–1,000,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
12,152
twitch viewers (latest)
12152.0
viewers/channel (concentration)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
Free
steam price (US)

59 players in-game as of 2026-10-15 03:00 UTC (census sample)

Please note that Storyline is for in-game plot only. Design and functionality should appear in Description/Summary. Description: tinyurl.com/3xbcpfwm Storyline: tinyurl.com/bdhk4np6(Storyline via IGDB)

Trailer

NIGHT-RUNNERS™ PROLOGUE trailer thumbnail

Night-Runners Prologue Release Date Trailer

≈5,544 YouTube results for this game's trailer search

Health check

Healthy
  • · 59 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 2,761 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~345/week).
  • · Review velocity up 6% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 2% of 2,389 Racing games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-29

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
2.2k2.2k20242026Week of 2024-02-01: 1,901 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 310 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 2,169 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 159 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 1,853 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 63 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 1,874 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 82 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 1,348 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 58 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 976 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 57 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 999 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 55 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 775 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 32 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 666 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 37 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 2,002 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 34 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 1,151 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 30 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 767 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 54 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 491 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 30 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 410 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 24 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 341 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 25 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 366 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 28 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 336 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 20 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 307 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 20 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 294 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 17 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 259 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 248 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 17 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 278 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 28 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 304 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 16 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 431 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 25 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 400 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 23 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 331 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 22 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 370 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 29 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 298 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 24 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 185 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 26 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 260 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 17 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 236 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 18 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

125402026-09-15 12:00 — 69 players2026-09-16 20:00 — 81 players2026-09-18 04:00 — 47 players2026-09-19 11:00 — 84 players2026-09-20 19:00 — 114 players2026-09-22 03:00 — 51 players2026-09-23 10:00 — 44 players2026-09-24 18:00 — 96 players2026-09-26 01:00 — 58 players2026-09-27 09:00 — 76 players2026-09-28 16:00 — 79 players2026-09-30 00:00 — 80 players2026-10-01 07:00 — 47 players2026-10-02 15:00 — 92 players2026-10-03 22:00 — 94 players2026-10-05 06:00 — 52 players2026-10-06 14:00 — 74 players2026-10-07 21:00 — 74 players2026-10-09 05:00 — 40 players2026-10-10 12:00 — 93 players2026-10-11 20:00 — 108 players2026-10-13 04:00 — 56 players2026-10-14 11:00 — 62 players2026-10-15 03:00 — 59 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
47569Mar 2024Aug 2026Mar 2024 — avg 475 · peak 1,272Apr 2024 — avg 365 · peak 639May 2024 — avg 334 · peak 606Jun 2024 — avg 258 · peak 428Jul 2024 — avg 204 · peak 323Aug 2024 — avg 223 · peak 493Sep 2024 — avg 196 · peak 432Oct 2024 — avg 186 · peak 377Nov 2024 — avg 145 · peak 295Dec 2024 — avg 126 · peak 215Jan 2025 — avg 194 · peak 401Feb 2025 — avg 153 · peak 293Mar 2025 — avg 113 · peak 212Apr 2025 — avg 109 · peak 256May 2025 — avg 112 · peak 227Jun 2025 — avg 95 · peak 167Jul 2025 — avg 83 · peak 144Aug 2025 — avg 81 · peak 139Sep 2025 — avg 74 · peak 151Oct 2025 — avg 76 · peak 145Nov 2025 — avg 85 · peak 149Dec 2025 — avg 83 · peak 159Jan 2026 — avg 122 · peak 238Feb 2026 — avg 145 · peak 434Mar 2026 — avg 107 · peak 187Apr 2026 — avg 120 · peak 333May 2026 — avg 112 · peak 262Jun 2026 — avg 69 · peak 123Jul 2026 — avg 76 · peak 167Aug 2026 — avg 88 · peak 162
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerFull controller supportGamepad RecommendedDualShock Controller SupportDualSense Controller SupportFamily Sharing

Where its players are

Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.

Player tags

RPGNoir1990'sArcadeRacingSportsDrivingStylizedCinematicRealistic

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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