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Nitro Kid cover art

Nitro Kid

Wildboy Studios · tinyBuild · 2022-10-18

Steam

IndieStrategy

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Third person, Text

Releases: Oct 18, 2022 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Synthwave roguelike deckbuilder set in the neon 80's. Pick your agent. Build your deck. Hit card combos and fight through the floors of INFINITY tower. Featuring 30+ fresh Synthwave tracks by LudoWic, Tonebox and Jules Reves.

88%
positive of 552 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Verified
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$19.99
steam price (US)

In a dystopian ’80s Miami, a megacorp, Infinity, has secretly captured mutant kids to turn their powers into products. The goal? Save as many kids as you can and put Infinity out of business.(Storyline via IGDB)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 22 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~3/week).
  • · Review velocity down 33% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (101 reviews).
  • · Top 26% of 25,647 Indie games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 11k–25k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 552 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

lowest across shops (ITAD)$15.89-21%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $1.99 at Fanatical (2026-07-23) · bundled 7×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $19.99 · on sale 77 of 105 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
939320222026Week of 2022-10-01: 93 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 45 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-09-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$99.99$3.052022-08-102026-09-052022-08-10 — best price $99.992022-11-22 — best price $15.992023-01-01 — best price $12.932023-02-07 — best price $19.992023-04-14 — best price $13.992023-05-12 — best price $11.882023-06-10 — best price $14.692023-07-06 — best price $15.892023-08-06 — best price $15.892023-09-15 — best price $19.992023-11-09 — best price $19.992023-12-11 — best price $8.992024-01-30 — best price $14.692024-03-02 — best price $19.992024-04-03 — best price $17.402024-04-22 — best price $14.692024-05-22 — best price $3.812024-07-04 — best price $19.992024-08-14 — best price $17.402024-09-25 — best price $4.802024-10-26 — best price $14.692024-12-05 — best price $15.892025-01-22 — best price $19.992025-02-18 — best price $15.892025-04-02 — best price $14.692025-05-27 — best price $14.692025-08-02 — best price $14.692025-09-16 — best price $3.992025-11-04 — best price $19.992025-12-01 — best price $16.572026-01-08 — best price $16.572026-02-17 — best price $3.582026-04-01 — best price $15.892026-05-14 — best price $14.692026-06-19 — best price $3.992026-07-31 — best price $15.892026-09-05 — best price $15.89
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

46
achievements tracked
76.3%
earned "Nitro Kid"
10.3%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam CloudFamily Sharing1 DLC

10 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Portuguese - Brazil, Simplified Chinese, Korean, Russian, Japanese

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2022-10-18 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)7682%46

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

1980sIndieSci-fiCard GameIsometricRogue-likeRogue-liteTurn-BasedAtmosphericCard Battler

Census log

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

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