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Power Chord cover art

Power Chord

Big Blue Bubble · 2023-01-26

Steam

IndieStrategy

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Third person, Side view

Releases: Jan 26, 2023 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Power Chord is a rock'n roguelite deck-building game. Assemble Earth's mightiest musicians, battle your way through legions of demons, discover new cards to enhance your instruments of destruction, and take back the city, one dive bar at a time.

71%
positive of 186 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
60/100
critic score (2 outlets, IGDB)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$19.99
steam price (US)

Assemble Earth's mightiest musicians, each with their own unique cards and gear, to fight your way through the hordes and destroy the only guitar powerful enough to reopen the scratch between worlds. Choose from a diverse cast of kick-ass characters to assemble your band, with each member having their own unique set of cards and playstyles. Combo your different band members’ cards to unleash devastating attacks and shred your opponents.(Storyline via IGDB)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 19 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity up 36% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 37% of 30,770 Indie games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 3.7k–8.4k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 186 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $2.99 at Steam (2025-06-26)via IsThereAnyDeal

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
363620232026Week of 2023-01-01: 36 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 16 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-09-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Completion

38
achievements tracked
75.8%
earned "Kragar and Krust"
12.6%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam Trading CardsSteam CloudFamily Sharing

Player tags

DemonsStrategyStylizedCard GameRogue-likeRogue-liteTeam-BasedCard BattlerDeckbuildingDungeon Crawler

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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