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Phantom Brigade

Brace Yourself Games · 2023-02-28

SteamEpic Games Store

IndieSimulationStrategy

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Bird view / Isometric

Releases: Feb 28, 2023 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Phantom Brigade 2.0 is a cinematic, tactical mech strategy game with a revolutionary timeline-based command system. See the future, predict enemy actions, and plot your counterattack on the timeline! Recruit and level up your squad of rebels to retake war-torn Fyrland from the Kaskad occupation.

Phantom Brigade is an Indie, Simulation and Strategy game released in 2023 for $29.99, with Very Positive (81% of 4558 reviews) and an estimated 200,000 .. 500,000 owners.

100
playing now
81%
positive of 4.6k reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
68/100
critic score (1 outlets, IGDB)
76
Nexus mods (67k downloads)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$29.99
steam price (US)

100 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 12:00 UTC (census sample)

Phantom Brigade is a turn-based tactics video game originally developed by Tetragon Works, but currently being developed by Brace Yourself Games after they acquired the indie studio. Initially in early access on Epic Games Store since November 2020, the full game was released on February 28, 2023. The premise of the game is that the player commands a squad of mechs who obtained a secret prototype weapon that lets them see briefly into the future. The game plays out in a semi-real-time manner with turns being separated into segments of a few seconds each. The player can predict what happens during these turns and set up moves that then play out in real time.

Trailer

Phantom Brigade trailer thumbnail

Phantom Brigade 1.0 Launch Trailer

≈1,000,000 YouTube results for this game's trailer search

Health check

Healthy
  • · 100 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 864 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~108/week).
  • · Review velocity up 56% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 4% of 49,548 Indie games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 92k–206k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 4,581 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $11.99 at Steam (2026-06-25)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $29.99 · on sale 8 of 17 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
1.5k1.5k20232026Week of 2023-02-01: 47 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 1,508 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 344 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 107 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 76 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 39 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 48 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 41 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 28 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 33 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 37 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 59 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 35 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 40 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 19 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 30 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 32 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 50 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 31 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 30 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 34 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 364 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 68 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 248 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 32 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 121 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 17 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 67 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 57 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 48 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 42 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 71 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 90 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 23 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 35 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 7 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

448782026-09-14 22:00 — 78 players2026-09-16 06:00 — 125 players2026-09-17 13:00 — 240 players2026-09-18 21:00 — 337 players2026-09-20 04:00 — 311 players2026-09-21 12:00 — 361 players2026-09-22 20:00 — 334 players2026-09-24 03:00 — 207 players2026-09-25 11:00 — 175 players2026-09-26 18:00 — 237 players2026-09-28 02:00 — 172 players2026-09-29 09:00 — 104 players2026-09-30 17:00 — 142 players2026-10-02 00:00 — 144 players2026-10-03 08:00 — 130 players2026-10-04 16:00 — 193 players2026-10-05 23:00 — 115 players2026-10-07 07:00 — 91 players2026-10-08 14:00 — 147 players2026-10-09 22:00 — 131 players2026-10-11 05:00 — 132 players2026-10-12 13:00 — 123 players2026-10-13 21:00 — 115 players2026-10-14 12:00 — 100 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
1.6k25Mar 2023Aug 2026Mar 2023 — avg 1,610 · peak 5,607May 2023 — avg 61 · peak 148Jul 2023 — avg 51 · peak 85Sep 2023 — avg 42 · peak 127Nov 2023 — avg 39 · peak 97Jan 2024 — avg 87 · peak 303Mar 2024 — avg 57 · peak 119May 2024 — avg 53 · peak 246Jul 2024 — avg 64 · peak 124Sep 2024 — avg 33 · peak 81Nov 2024 — avg 43 · peak 79Jan 2025 — avg 53 · peak 113Mar 2025 — avg 40 · peak 83May 2025 — avg 40 · peak 86Jul 2025 — avg 25 · peak 49Sep 2025 — avg 29 · peak 57Nov 2025 — avg 738 · peak 2,413Jan 2026 — avg 263 · peak 485Mar 2026 — avg 130 · peak 288May 2026 — avg 94 · peak 198Jul 2026 — avg 186 · peak 436Aug 2026 — avg 87 · peak 155
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$29.99$11.992020-11-162026-07-132020-11-16 — best price $29.992023-03-07 — best price $29.992023-04-24 — best price $29.992023-06-05 — best price $29.992023-07-13 — best price $29.992023-07-24 — best price $29.992023-09-04 — best price $29.992023-10-23 — best price $29.992023-11-28 — best price $29.992024-01-04 — best price $29.992024-03-04 — best price $29.992024-03-21 — best price $29.992024-04-15 — best price $29.992024-05-29 — best price $22.492024-06-05 — best price $29.992024-07-11 — best price $29.992024-10-07 — best price $29.992024-12-18 — best price $29.992025-01-02 — best price $29.992025-02-19 — best price $29.992025-03-20 — best price $29.992025-05-13 — best price $29.992025-12-03 — best price $29.992026-01-05 — best price $29.992026-01-17 — best price $29.992026-03-03 — best price $29.992026-03-26 — best price $29.992026-04-23 — best price $29.992026-06-07 — best price $29.992026-07-03 — best price $29.992026-07-13 — best price $29.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

3662026-05-27 — 20 pageviews2026-05-31 — 19 pageviews2026-06-04 — 13 pageviews2026-06-08 — 15 pageviews2026-06-12 — 16 pageviews2026-06-16 — 11 pageviews2026-06-20 — 10 pageviews2026-06-24 — 15 pageviews2026-06-28 — 25 pageviews2026-07-02 — 18 pageviews2026-07-06 — 30 pageviews2026-07-10 — 19 pageviews2026-07-14 — 19 pageviews2026-07-18 — 20 pageviews2026-07-22 — 15 pageviews2026-07-26 — 10 pageviews2026-07-30 — 16 pageviews2026-08-03 — 13 pageviews2026-08-07 — 9 pageviews2026-08-11 — 18 pageviews2026-08-15 — 18 pageviews2026-08-19 — 17 pageviews2026-08-23 — 15 pageviews2026-08-27 — 13 pageviews2026-08-31 — 14 pageviews2026-09-04 — 15 pageviews2026-09-08 — 20 pageviews2026-09-12 — 9 pageviews2026-09-16 — 36 pageviews2026-09-20 — 21 pageviews2026-09-24 — 19 pageviews2026-09-28 — 8 pageviews2026-10-02 — 10 pageviews2026-10-06 — 11 pageviews2026-10-10 — 14 pageviews2026-10-12 — 13 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

46
achievements tracked
91.2%
earned "Play It Back"
25.7%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam Trading CardsSteam WorkshopDualShock Controller SupportDualShock Controller SupportDualSense Controller SupportDualSense Controller SupportPartial Controller SupportSteam Cloud2 DLC

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

Post-launch support: 2 DLC released, first 2023-02-28, latest 2025-12-15 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)3,0980%46

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

Where its players are

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

Player tags

MechsTanksActionRobotsSci-fiPhysicsStrategyTacticalTurn-BasedStrategy RPG

Census log

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

Recent updates

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Similarity via IGDB.

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