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Shadow Blade: Reload cover art

Shadow Blade: Reload

Dead Mage · 2015-08-10

SteamPlayStation Store

ActionIndie

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Side view

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!

Shadow Blade: Reload is an Action and Indie game released in 2015, priced at $9.99, with an owner estimate of 20,000 .. 50,000 and a review sentiment of Very Positive (87% of 378 reviews).

0
playing now
87%
positive of 378 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
69/100
critic score (3 outlets, IGDB)
80/100
IGDB user rating (3 ratings)
4.30★
PlayStation Store rating (208 ratings)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$9.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 06:00 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

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 15 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity up 67% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 23% of 27,649 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-01

Estimated sales: 9.4k–23k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 378 total reviews — how this is computed.

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

12-month high $1.99 · on sale 0 of 4 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
8820152026Week of 2015-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2016-02-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2016-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2016-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2016-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-10-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2016-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2017-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2017-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2017-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2017-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2017-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2017-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-10-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2017-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 3 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

202026-09-15 07:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 15:00 — 2 players2026-09-17 23:00 — 1 players2026-09-19 06:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 14:00 — 1 players2026-09-21 22:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 05:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 13:00 — 1 players2026-09-25 20:00 — 0 players2026-09-27 04:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 11:00 — 1 players2026-09-29 19:00 — 0 players2026-10-01 02:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 10:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 17:00 — 1 players2026-10-05 01:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 09:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 16:00 — 1 players2026-10-09 00:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 07:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 15:00 — 0 players2026-10-12 23:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 06:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$19.99$1.002015-01-012026-09-182015-01-01 — 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 $9.992026-09-16 — best price $1.992026-09-18 — best price $1.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

1002026-05-31 — 2 pageviews2026-06-04 — 2 pageviews2026-06-08 — 5 pageviews2026-06-12 — 5 pageviews2026-06-16 — 4 pageviews2026-06-20 — 6 pageviews2026-06-24 — 1 pageviews2026-06-28 — 2 pageviews2026-07-02 — 0 pageviews2026-07-06 — 7 pageviews2026-07-10 — 8 pageviews2026-07-14 — 2 pageviews2026-07-18 — 5 pageviews2026-07-22 — 6 pageviews2026-07-26 — 3 pageviews2026-07-30 — 4 pageviews2026-08-03 — 3 pageviews2026-08-07 — 2 pageviews2026-08-11 — 5 pageviews2026-08-15 — 4 pageviews2026-08-19 — 3 pageviews2026-08-23 — 5 pageviews2026-08-27 — 0 pageviews2026-08-31 — 2 pageviews2026-09-04 — 1 pageviews2026-09-08 — 1 pageviews2026-09-12 — 0 pageviews2026-09-16 — 5 pageviews2026-09-20 — 6 pageviews2026-09-24 — 3 pageviews2026-09-28 — 3 pageviews2026-10-02 — 3 pageviews2026-10-06 — 3 pageviews2026-10-10 — 4 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

37
achievements tracked
33.8%
earned "Greedy Ninja!"
9%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

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

4 supported languages: English, French, German, Russian

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2015-08-10 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)1,1625%37
PS4 (PlayStation)3989%19
Switch (Nintendo)10%0

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

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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