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Rivalry

Kew McParlane · My64K · 2016-01-22

Steam

CasualIndieSimulationStrategyEarly Access

Modes: Multiplayer · Perspectives: Side view

Releases: Jan 21, 2016 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Jan 22, 2016 (Linux), Jan 22, 2016 (Mac), Oct 30, 2015 (Web browser)

Rivalry is a hotseat game where two players take turns moving their rag-doll character’s limbs and weapons until one is victorious. While the beginning stages of each game captures the strategic essence of swordplay, as damage and limbs are taken, the endgame turns rather Pythonesque.

91%
positive of 366 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
80/100
IGDB user rating (1 ratings)
$2.99
steam price (US)
Rivalry is an upcoming ragdoll-based sword-fighting hotseat multiplayer game created by Kew McParlane. The game was released into Steam Early Access in January 2016 after being previewed as a WebGL game at PAX Australia 2015.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 16 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity up 60% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 16% of 25,912 Casual games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 9.2k–22k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 366 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $2.99 at Steam (2016-01-23)via IsThereAnyDeal

Review momentum

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Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Attention

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Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxMulti-playerPvPShared/Split Screen PvPShared/Split ScreenRemote Play TogetherFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Player tags

IndieCasualStrategySimulationEarly AccessLocal Multiplayer

Census log

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

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