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Retrowave

RewindApp · 2022-05-06

Steam

ActionCasualIndieRacingSimulation

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer · Perspectives: First person, Third person

Releases: Mar 06, 2020 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Neon lights, palm trees, synthwave, '80s supercars speeding down an endless highway... Welcome to the world of Retrowave!

Retrowave is a 2022 Action, Casual, Indie and Racing game priced at $2.99, with an estimated 200,000 to 500,000 owners and an Overwhelmingly Positive review sentiment (95% of 15,542 reviews).

3
playing now
95%
positive of 15k reviews
Overwhelmingly Positive
steam's rating (official)
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
80/100
IGDB user rating (15 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unsupported
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Unsupported
$2.99
steam price (US)

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

Trailer

Retrowave trailer thumbnail

Retrowave -Trailer

≈335,007 YouTube results for this game's trailer search

Health check

Healthy
  • · 3 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 448 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~56/week).
  • · Review velocity up 17% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (3,039 reviews).
  • · Top 4% of 27,649 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-28

Estimated sales: 309k–694k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 15,428 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.89 at Steam (2023-11-21) · bundled 6×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $2.99 · on sale 11 of 22 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
3.0k3.0k20202026Week of 2020-03-01: 153 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 168 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 1,028 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 47 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 189 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 229 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 133 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 180 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 115 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 1,289 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 19 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 182 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 223 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 113 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 151 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 91 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 278 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 130 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 227 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 114 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 160 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 105 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 208 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 117 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 103 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 113 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 62 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 96 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 682 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 28 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 360 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 20 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 416 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 220 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 155 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 183 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 3,005 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 34 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 192 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 363 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 22 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 192 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 194 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 221 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 208 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 132 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 323 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 140 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 110 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 123 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 235 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 134 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 215 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 99 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 82 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 94 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 102 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 83 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 116 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 71 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 66 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 76 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 57 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 68 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 72 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 54 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 54 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 49 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 39 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 51 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 56 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 46 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 33 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 35 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 38 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 37 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 42 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 26 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 34 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 28 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 28 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 36 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 171 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 42 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 5 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

2122026-09-14 21:00 — 11 players2026-09-16 05:00 — 2 players2026-09-17 13:00 — 8 players2026-09-18 20:00 — 14 players2026-09-20 04:00 — 6 players2026-09-21 12:00 — 8 players2026-09-22 19:00 — 21 players2026-09-24 03:00 — 11 players2026-09-25 10:00 — 6 players2026-09-26 18:00 — 14 players2026-09-28 01:00 — 7 players2026-09-29 09:00 — 6 players2026-09-30 16:00 — 12 players2026-10-02 00:00 — 7 players2026-10-03 07:00 — 6 players2026-10-04 15:00 — 19 players2026-10-05 23:00 — 10 players2026-10-07 06:00 — 4 players2026-10-08 14:00 — 7 players2026-10-09 21:00 — 16 players2026-10-11 05:00 — 8 players2026-10-12 13:00 — 12 players2026-10-13 20:00 — 11 players2026-10-14 12:00 — 3 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
928Mar 2020Aug 2026Mar 2020 — avg 8 · peak 23May 2020 — avg 59 · peak 638Jul 2020 — avg 18 · peak 42Sep 2020 — avg 14 · peak 33Nov 2020 — avg 15 · peak 41Jan 2021 — avg 16 · peak 40Mar 2021 — avg 10 · peak 31May 2021 — avg 20 · peak 66Jul 2021 — avg 21 · peak 47Sep 2021 — avg 16 · peak 46Nov 2021 — avg 18 · peak 48Jan 2022 — avg 22 · peak 51Mar 2022 — avg 12 · peak 29May 2022 — avg 92 · peak 308Jul 2022 — avg 60 · peak 137Sep 2022 — avg 24 · peak 69Nov 2022 — avg 32 · peak 72Jan 2023 — avg 49 · peak 129Mar 2023 — avg 34 · peak 209May 2023 — avg 33 · peak 248Jul 2023 — avg 39 · peak 82Sep 2023 — avg 19 · peak 50Nov 2023 — avg 30 · peak 76Jan 2024 — avg 33 · peak 78Mar 2024 — avg 21 · peak 59May 2024 — avg 19 · peak 42Jul 2024 — avg 21 · peak 43Sep 2024 — avg 17 · peak 54Nov 2024 — avg 14 · peak 33Jan 2025 — avg 17 · peak 36Mar 2025 — avg 14 · peak 37May 2025 — avg 11 · peak 27Jul 2025 — avg 13 · peak 40Sep 2025 — avg 12 · peak 29Nov 2025 — avg 11 · peak 26Jan 2026 — avg 14 · peak 46Mar 2026 — avg 11 · peak 24May 2026 — avg 9 · peak 22Jul 2026 — avg 9 · peak 22Aug 2026 — avg 11 · peak 24
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$2.99$0.892020-03-062026-08-172020-03-06 — best price $1.492020-06-25 — best price $1.492020-09-08 — best price $1.492020-11-04 — best price $1.492020-12-22 — best price $1.492021-02-11 — best price $1.392021-05-06 — best price $1.392021-07-09 — best price $0.992021-10-28 — best price $0.992021-11-18 — best price $1.992022-01-05 — best price $1.992022-04-28 — best price $2.992022-06-07 — best price $2.992022-09-01 — best price $2.992022-11-29 — best price $2.992023-03-23 — best price $2.992023-05-31 — best price $2.992023-07-31 — best price $2.992023-11-21 — best price $0.892024-01-18 — best price $2.992024-03-21 — best price $2.992024-05-29 — best price $2.992024-09-07 — best price $2.992024-12-18 — best price $2.992025-01-31 — best price $2.992025-04-14 — best price $2.842025-06-27 — best price $1.492025-08-04 — best price $2.842025-10-06 — best price $2.992025-12-14 — best price $2.992026-01-27 — best price $2.992026-03-26 — best price $2.992026-04-28 — best price $2.992026-07-09 — best price $2.992026-08-17 — best price $2.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

44
achievements tracked
74.9%
earned "Normal"
13%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerMulti-playerPvPOnline PvPSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam Trading CardsSteam CloudSteam LeaderboardsFamily Sharing4 DLC

13 supported languages: English, Simplified Chinese, Russian, French, Traditional Chinese, Polish, Romanian, Turkish, Hungarian, Portuguese - Brazil, Czech, Spanish - Spain…

Post-launch support: 4 DLC released, first 2021-12-23, latest 2025-08-13 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)10,8317%44

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

1980sIndieMusicRetro1990'sActionArcadeCasualRacingRelaxing

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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