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Shadow Blade: Reload cover art

Shadow Blade: Reload

Dead Mage · 2015-08-10

SteamPlayStation Store

ActionIndie

Modes: Single player

Releases: Apr 03, 2019 (Nintendo Switch), Jul 01, 2015 (Mac), Jul 01, 2015 (Linux), Jul 01, 2015 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), May 31, 2016 (PlayStation 4)

Shadow Blade is an action-platformer set in a visually striking world where the ancient teachings of ninjas and samurai clash upon a modern landscape. Sprint through stages littered with traps, slaying enemies along your path without hesitation as Kuro, the blade of shadow!

0
playing now
87%
positive of 377 reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
69/100
critic score (3 outlets, IGDB)
80/100
IGDB user rating (3 ratings)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$9.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 12:00 UTC (census sample)

Shadow Blade: Reload is a platform game in which the player assumes the role of a ninja named Kuro. The game has a mobile version called Shadow Blade.

Health check

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 50% of 10,862 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 9.4k–23k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 377 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $1.00 at Fanatical (2020-11-19) · bundled 12×via IsThereAnyDeal

Players online

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Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$19.99$1.002015-01-012021-08-312015-01-01 — best price $6.992015-07-10 — best price $14.992015-10-12 — best price $8.992015-12-01 — best price $14.992015-12-26 — best price $14.992016-02-05 — best price $5.992016-06-06 — best price $4.502016-09-22 — best price $14.992016-10-28 — best price $4.492016-11-29 — best price $14.992017-01-16 — best price $4.492017-03-27 — best price $14.992017-05-29 — best price $14.992017-09-04 — best price $14.992017-10-16 — best price $14.992017-11-22 — best price $4.492018-01-11 — best price $4.492018-04-03 — best price $5.992018-06-21 — best price $4.492018-08-30 — best price $3.742018-10-30 — best price $2.992018-11-27 — best price $14.992019-01-24 — best price $14.992019-02-17 — best price $14.992019-04-30 — best price $3.492019-06-25 — best price $1.992019-10-28 — best price $1.992019-12-19 — best price $2.992020-02-24 — best price $2.992020-03-17 — best price $9.992020-05-25 — best price $9.992020-08-05 — best price $5.242020-11-25 — best price $3.992021-01-05 — best price $9.992021-08-31 — best price $9.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

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

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam Trading CardsSteam WorkshopSteam CloudSteam LeaderboardsIncludes level editorFamily Sharing1 DLC

4 supported languages: English, French, German, Russian

Player tags

2D2.5DIndieNinjaActionFast-PacedPlatformerSingleplayerSide Scroller

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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