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Shantae: Risky's Revenge - Director's Cut cover art

Shantae: Risky's Revenge - Director's Cut

WayForward · 2014-07-15

SteamGOGPlayStation StoreAmazonMicrosoft Store

ActionAdventureIndie

Modes: Single player

Releases: Feb 22, 2021 (Google Stadia), Oct 15, 2020 (Xbox One), Mar 24, 2016 (Wii U), Oct 19, 2021 (PlayStation 5), Jul 15, 2014 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Dec 08, 2015 (PlayStation 4)

Shantae: Risky’s Revenge – Director’s Cut brings hair-whipping, belly-dancing to your PC! Play one of the most critically acclaimed handheld series of all time, now with brand new features!

8
playing now
86%
positive of 1.7k reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
78/100
critic score (1 outlets, IGDB)
76/100
IGDB user rating (24 ratings)
8.1h
time to beat (IGDB)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$9.99
steam price (US)

8 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 06:00 UTC (census sample)

Shantae: Risky's Revenge is a 2010 platform video game developed and published by WayForward Technologies for the Nintendo DSi. The second installment in the Shantae series, Risky's Revenge is the sequel to the 2002 Game Boy Color video game Shantae, and follows series protagonist Shantae as she sets out to stop the ambitions of the nefarious pirate Risky Boots.

Health check

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 27% of 10,862 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 43k–104k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 1,727 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

GOG$9.99
lowest across shops (ITAD)$9.99
Microsoft Store$9.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $2.49 at Steam (2015-03-12) · bundled 7×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $9.99 · on sale 84 of 133 observed days · $7.50 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Players online

1912026-08-11 17:00 — 5 players2026-08-12 09:00 — 1 players2026-08-13 01:00 — 4 players2026-08-13 17:00 — 2 players2026-08-14 08:00 — 3 players2026-08-15 00:00 — 3 players2026-08-15 16:00 — 5 players2026-08-16 08:00 — 5 players2026-08-17 00:00 — 3 players2026-08-17 16:00 — 2 players2026-08-18 08:00 — 8 players2026-08-18 23:00 — 12 players2026-08-19 15:00 — 11 players2026-08-20 07:00 — 7 players2026-08-20 23:00 — 15 players2026-08-21 15:00 — 10 players2026-08-22 06:00 — 6 players2026-08-22 22:00 — 18 players2026-08-23 14:00 — 14 players2026-08-24 06:00 — 8 players2026-08-24 22:00 — 10 players2026-08-25 13:00 — 7 players2026-08-26 06:00 — 4 players2026-08-26 22:00 — 19 players2026-08-27 14:00 — 8 players2026-08-28 06:00 — 15 players2026-08-28 22:00 — 11 players2026-08-29 14:00 — 9 players2026-08-30 06:00 — 8 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$9.99$2.492015-01-012026-08-302015-01-01 — best price $4.992016-02-29 — best price $4.992016-11-23 — best price $6.692017-11-22 — best price $4.992018-11-06 — best price $9.992020-12-16 — best price $4.992021-08-09 — best price $4.992022-01-07 — best price $8.892022-05-26 — best price $8.892022-11-18 — best price $3.992023-01-12 — best price $9.992023-03-14 — best price $9.992023-07-15 — best price $9.992023-08-24 — best price $3.922023-10-09 — best price $4.002023-11-23 — best price $9.992024-01-29 — best price $9.992024-03-23 — best price $9.992024-06-03 — best price $3.062024-07-25 — best price $9.992024-09-25 — best price $4.992024-11-13 — best price $9.992025-01-15 — best price $4.992025-03-01 — best price $9.992025-04-25 — best price $3.822025-06-17 — best price $6.292025-08-11 — best price $3.992025-09-27 — best price $9.992025-11-30 — best price $9.992026-01-29 — best price $5.992026-03-16 — best price $9.992026-05-07 — best price $6.992026-07-13 — best price $3.902026-08-30 — best price $9.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

171562026-06-01 — 87 pageviews2026-06-04 — 123 pageviews2026-06-07 — 119 pageviews2026-06-10 — 83 pageviews2026-06-13 — 71 pageviews2026-06-16 — 103 pageviews2026-06-19 — 79 pageviews2026-06-22 — 97 pageviews2026-06-25 — 93 pageviews2026-06-28 — 104 pageviews2026-07-01 — 71 pageviews2026-07-04 — 156 pageviews2026-07-07 — 117 pageviews2026-07-10 — 83 pageviews2026-07-13 — 93 pageviews2026-07-16 — 70 pageviews2026-07-19 — 92 pageviews2026-07-22 — 74 pageviews2026-07-25 — 74 pageviews2026-07-28 — 91 pageviews2026-07-31 — 79 pageviews2026-08-03 — 82 pageviews2026-08-06 — 74 pageviews2026-08-09 — 56 pageviews2026-08-12 — 57 pageviews2026-08-15 — 84 pageviews2026-08-18 — 171 pageviews2026-08-21 — 113 pageviews2026-08-24 — 96 pageviews2026-08-27 — 121 pageviews2026-08-29 — 110 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

26
achievements tracked
84.3%
earned "Ret-2-Go!"
9.6%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam Trading CardsPartial Controller SupportSteam CloudFamily Sharing

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)10,7764%26
PS4, PS3, PS Vita (PlayStation)5,3028%13
Xbox One, Windows (Xbox)7969%24
PS5 (PlayStation)74911%13
PS4 (PlayStation)54222%13
Switch (Nintendo)1480%0
Switch (Nintendo)20%0

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

Player tags

2DCuteAnimeFunnyIndieRetroActionAdventurePlatformerMetroidvania

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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