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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

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~.

0
playing now
52%
positive of 131 reviews
Mixed
steam rating
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
59/100
critic score (1 outlets, IGDB)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$19.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 13:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 65% of 10,910 Action games in the census by review count.
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 46 of 72 observed days (census price snapshots)

Players online

102026-08-12 01:00 — 0 players2026-08-12 17:00 — 0 players2026-08-13 09:00 — 0 players2026-08-14 01:00 — 0 players2026-08-14 17:00 — 0 players2026-08-15 08:00 — 0 players2026-08-16 00:00 — 0 players2026-08-16 16:00 — 0 players2026-08-17 08:00 — 0 players2026-08-18 00:00 — 0 players2026-08-18 16:00 — 0 players2026-08-19 08:00 — 0 players2026-08-19 23:00 — 0 players2026-08-20 15:00 — 0 players2026-08-21 07:00 — 0 players2026-08-21 23:00 — 0 players2026-08-22 14:00 — 0 players2026-08-23 06:00 — 0 players2026-08-23 22:00 — 0 players2026-08-24 14:00 — 0 players2026-08-25 06:00 — 0 players2026-08-25 22:00 — 0 players2026-08-26 14:00 — 0 players2026-08-27 06:00 — 1 players2026-08-27 22:00 — 0 players2026-08-28 14:00 — 0 players2026-08-29 07:00 — 0 players2026-08-29 21:00 — 0 players2026-08-30 13:00 — 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).

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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