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River City Melee : Battle Royal Special cover art

River City Melee : Battle Royal Special

Arc System Works · H2 Interactive Co., Ltd. · 2017-09-28

SteamPlayStation Store

ActionAdventureSports

Franchise: Kunio-kun · Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative · Perspectives: Side view

Releases: Sep 14, 2017 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Apr 28, 2017 (PlayStation 4)

This is the most recent installment of the ‘Kunio-Kun’ franchise recreated as a fun and easy fighting game with the fighting aspects taken and upgraded from River City Super Sports Challenge ~All Star Special~.

River City Melee : Battle Royal Special is an Action, Adventure, and Sports game released in 2017, priced at $19.99, with a Mixed sentiment across 131 reviews and an owner estimate of 20,000 .. 50,000.

0
playing now
52%
positive of 131 reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
59/100
critic score (1 outlets, IGDB)
3.88★
PlayStation Store rating (530 ratings)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$19.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 08:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 4 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 20% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (14 reviews).
  • · Top 35% of 27,649 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-01

Estimated sales: 3.3k–7.9k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 131 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $2.00 at GameBillet (2025-10-09)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $19.99 · on sale 33 of 53 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
101020172026Week of 2017-09-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2017-09-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2017-10-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2017-10-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2017-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2018-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

102026-09-15 08:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 17:00 — 0 players2026-09-18 00:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 08:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 15:00 — 0 players2026-09-21 23:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 07:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 14:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 22:00 — 0 players2026-09-27 05:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 13:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 20:00 — 0 players2026-10-01 04:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 11:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 19:00 — 0 players2026-10-05 03:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 10:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 18:00 — 1 players2026-10-09 01:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 09:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 16:00 — 0 players2026-10-13 00:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 08:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$19.99$1.992017-09-142026-08-102017-09-14 — best price $17.992018-01-04 — best price $18.992018-09-28 — best price $19.992018-12-20 — best price $3.992019-07-08 — best price $19.992019-10-28 — best price $3.992020-01-03 — best price $19.992020-07-30 — best price $2.682020-09-22 — best price $19.992020-11-26 — best price $2.612021-01-20 — best price $2.792021-04-27 — best price $16.792021-08-13 — best price $2.662021-12-02 — best price $19.992022-02-03 — best price $19.992022-04-23 — best price $17.992022-07-08 — best price $16.232022-09-15 — best price $2.422022-12-22 — best price $2.542023-03-16 — best price $2.492023-07-03 — best price $2.782023-11-28 — best price $19.992024-04-06 — best price $18.372024-07-12 — best price $16.592024-10-26 — best price $3.002025-02-03 — best price $19.992025-05-12 — best price $2.992025-08-11 — best price $16.542025-09-30 — best price $2.122025-10-31 — best price $2.432025-11-27 — best price $2.362026-01-07 — best price $16.572026-07-09 — best price $19.992026-08-10 — best price $19.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

11
achievements tracked
32%
earned "Watch beneath your foot!"
20.6%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerMulti-playerPvPOnline PvPShared/Split Screen PvPCo-opOnline Co-opShared/Split Screen Co-opShared/Split ScreenSteam Achievements

5 supported languages: English, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese

Player tags

AnimeRetroActionSportsFightingAdventureBattle RoyalePixel GraphicsAction-Adventure

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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