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Shaq Fu: A Legend Reborn cover art

Shaq Fu: A Legend Reborn

Big Deez Productions · Mad Dog Games · 2018-06-05

SteamGOGPlayStation StoreMicrosoft Store

ActionIndie

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Side view

Releases: Jun 05, 2018 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Jun 05, 2018 (PlayStation 4), Jun 05, 2018 (Xbox One), Jun 05, 2018 (Nintendo Switch), Aug 02, 2018 (Android), Aug 02, 2018 (iOS)

The world is on the brink of disaster. Demonic celebrities have taken over the planet. Only one man can save us: a poor Chinese orphan named Shaq Fei Hung. Our hero must travel to faraway locations to lay the smack down on these pop culture icons bent on our destruction.

79%
positive of 207 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
25/100
critic score (2 outlets, IGDB)
62/100
IGDB user rating (6 ratings)
4.24★
PlayStation Store rating (496 ratings)
silver
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$3.99
steam price (US)
Shaq Fu: A Legend Reborn is a 2018 beat 'em up video game developed by Big Deez Productions and published by Mad Dog Games. It is a sequel to Shaq Fu (1994) and it was released for Microsoft Windows, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One in June 2018. Former professional basketball player Shaquille O'Neal reprises his role from the original as the player character. The game received generally negative reviews upon release for all platforms except for the Xbox One version, which received a more mixed response.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 12 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity down 29% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 32% of 24,021 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 5.2k–12k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 207 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

lowest across shops (ITAD)$3.99-80%
GOG$4.99-75%
Microsoft Store$19.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $1.11 at AllYouPlay (2020-10-26) · bundled 2×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $19.99 · on sale 27 of 54 observed days · $3.88 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
141420182026Week of 2018-06-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2018-07-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-09-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-12-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-09-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$21.53$1.112018-06-052026-10-062018-06-05 — best price $19.992018-11-01 — best price $9.992019-01-04 — best price $19.992019-03-22 — best price $19.992019-06-24 — best price $19.992019-12-26 — best price $7.982020-01-25 — best price $18.732020-02-14 — best price $18.412020-04-03 — best price $19.992020-04-29 — best price $16.682020-06-22 — best price $2.792020-07-24 — best price $2.452020-08-13 — best price $17.882020-08-31 — best price $2.992020-09-18 — best price $19.992020-10-26 — best price $1.112020-11-30 — best price $2.992021-01-07 — best price $19.992021-04-25 — best price $4.252021-07-08 — best price $19.992021-08-31 — best price $17.792021-11-11 — best price $2.522021-12-12 — best price $19.992022-01-28 — best price $3.742022-03-10 — best price $19.992022-06-23 — best price $3.742022-11-28 — best price $16.282023-04-29 — best price $4.012023-07-31 — best price $16.952024-03-22 — best price $19.992024-12-19 — best price $4.992025-06-26 — best price $3.752025-10-08 — best price $19.992026-01-11 — best price $19.992026-03-19 — best price $1.992026-06-14 — best price $19.992026-09-08 — best price $19.992026-10-06 — best price $4.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

295382026-07-08 — 65 pageviews2026-07-11 — 56 pageviews2026-07-14 — 58 pageviews2026-07-17 — 58 pageviews2026-07-20 — 72 pageviews2026-07-23 — 61 pageviews2026-07-26 — 44 pageviews2026-07-29 — 57 pageviews2026-08-01 — 52 pageviews2026-08-04 — 57 pageviews2026-08-07 — 46 pageviews2026-08-10 — 77 pageviews2026-08-13 — 295 pageviews2026-08-16 — 101 pageviews2026-08-19 — 65 pageviews2026-08-22 — 67 pageviews2026-08-25 — 73 pageviews2026-08-28 — 52 pageviews2026-08-31 — 76 pageviews2026-09-03 — 56 pageviews2026-09-06 — 54 pageviews2026-09-09 — 62 pageviews2026-09-12 — 75 pageviews2026-09-15 — 95 pageviews2026-09-18 — 84 pageviews2026-09-21 — 93 pageviews2026-09-24 — 84 pageviews2026-09-27 — 51 pageviews2026-09-30 — 65 pageviews2026-10-03 — 56 pageviews2026-10-04 — 64 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

43
achievements tracked
75.4%
earned "“The Juice Is Loose”"
27.4%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam CloudRemote Play on TVFamily Sharing

6 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Portuguese - Brazil

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Xbox One (Xbox)2,31754%43
PS4 (PlayStation)96933%34
PS4 (PlayStation)9160%34
Steam (Steam)45718%43
Switch (Nintendo)150%0
Switch (Nintendo)110%0

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

Player tags

IndieMemesActionComedyBeat 'em up

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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