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Shadow Bug

Muro Studios · 2017-07-22

Steam

ActionAdventureIndie

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Side view

Releases: Jul 22, 2017 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), TBD (iOS), TBD (Android), Mar 30, 2018 (Nintendo Switch), Jul 22, 2017 (Mac)

Leap, slash, splash! You are the overpowered ninja hero Shadow Bug! Save your home forest from the evil factory by slicing monsters to pieces.

96%
positive of 112 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
60/100
critic score (1 outlets, IGDB)
70/100
IGDB user rating (1 ratings)
35h
to beat · rushed 10h · completionist 55h
$5.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 8 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity up 0% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 49% of 18,426 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 2.8k–6.7k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 112 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.49 at Steam (2018-06-22) · bundled 2×via IsThereAnyDeal

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
7720172026Week of 2017-07-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2017-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2017-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-09-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2017-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Completion

19
achievements tracked
84.3%
earned "Brown Belt"
21.6%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam LeaderboardsFamily Sharing

11 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Dutch, Finnish, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Simplified Chinese

Player tags

2DIndieNinjaActionAdventurePlatformerAtmosphericAction-Adventure

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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