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SHOCK TROOPERS 2nd Squad cover art

SHOCK TROOPERS 2nd Squad

SNK CORPORATION · 2016-09-28

SteamGOG

Action

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative, Split screen

Releases: Sep 28, 2016 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Nov 05, 1998 (Neo Geo MVS), Nov 06, 1998 (Arcade), Nov 05, 1998 (Neo Geo AES)

“SHOCK TROOPERS 2nd Squad”, the sequel to the NEOGEO fan favorite 2D top-down view action shooting game, returns to the missions on the Steam battlefield!

1
playing now
53%
positive of 163 reviews
Mixed
steam rating
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
71/100
IGDB user rating (10 ratings)
bronze
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$1.19
steam price (US)

1 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 13:00 UTC (census sample)

Shock Troopers: 2nd Squad is a run and gun arcade game developed by Saurus and published by SNK in 1998 for the Neo Geo arcade and home platform. Despite its title, it has no connection with the first Shock Troopers game. 2nd Squad was re-released for the Wii's Virtual Console service for North America in 2012. SNK Playmore released it for iOS, Linux and Windows via Humble Bundle and Steam in 2016.

Health check

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  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 62% of 10,862 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 4.1k–9.8k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 163 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

lowest across shops (ITAD)$1.16-85%
GOG$5.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $0.89 at GOG (2025-03-19) · bundled 3×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $7.99 · on sale 31 of 44 observed days · $0.27 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Players online

102026-08-12 01:00 — 0 players2026-08-12 17:00 — 0 players2026-08-13 09:00 — 0 players2026-08-14 00:00 — 0 players2026-08-14 16:00 — 0 players2026-08-15 08:00 — 0 players2026-08-16 00:00 — 0 players2026-08-16 16:00 — 0 players2026-08-17 08:00 — 0 players2026-08-18 00:00 — 0 players2026-08-18 15:00 — 1 players2026-08-19 07:00 — 1 players2026-08-19 23:00 — 1 players2026-08-20 15:00 — 0 players2026-08-21 07:00 — 0 players2026-08-21 22:00 — 0 players2026-08-22 14:00 — 1 players2026-08-23 06:00 — 0 players2026-08-23 22:00 — 0 players2026-08-24 13:00 — 0 players2026-08-25 05:00 — 0 players2026-08-25 21:00 — 0 players2026-08-26 14:00 — 1 players2026-08-27 06:00 — 0 players2026-08-27 22:00 — 0 players2026-08-28 14:00 — 0 players2026-08-29 06:00 — 0 players2026-08-29 21:00 — 1 players2026-08-30 13:00 — 1 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$7.99$0.892016-01-062026-08-302016-01-06 — best price $4.992017-11-28 — best price $7.992019-02-16 — best price $7.992019-06-24 — best price $3.992019-09-07 — best price $7.992020-01-02 — best price $5.992020-02-12 — best price $3.992020-03-30 — best price $5.992020-06-04 — best price $5.872020-07-07 — best price $7.192020-08-27 — best price $5.872020-11-18 — best price $7.992021-01-23 — best price $7.992021-04-05 — best price $5.992021-06-05 — best price $7.992021-07-26 — best price $5.872021-09-19 — best price $5.872021-11-16 — best price $7.992022-01-11 — best price $6.812022-02-21 — best price $5.992022-04-25 — best price $7.092022-06-12 — best price $7.092022-07-21 — best price $7.092022-08-31 — best price $7.092022-10-22 — best price $7.092022-12-05 — best price $2.922023-02-08 — best price $3.992023-03-24 — best price $3.992023-05-07 — best price $3.012023-07-02 — best price $7.092023-08-25 — best price $6.342024-03-12 — best price $1.492024-09-17 — best price $1.792025-04-03 — best price $5.992025-08-26 — best price $0.892026-03-25 — best price $1.192026-08-01 — best price $6.752026-08-30 — best price $5.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

7872026-05-31 — 19 pageviews2026-06-03 — 24 pageviews2026-06-06 — 8 pageviews2026-06-09 — 21 pageviews2026-06-12 — 19 pageviews2026-06-15 — 11 pageviews2026-06-18 — 7 pageviews2026-06-21 — 15 pageviews2026-06-24 — 10 pageviews2026-06-27 — 17 pageviews2026-06-30 — 16 pageviews2026-07-03 — 35 pageviews2026-07-06 — 23 pageviews2026-07-09 — 17 pageviews2026-07-12 — 16 pageviews2026-07-15 — 12 pageviews2026-07-18 — 16 pageviews2026-07-21 — 13 pageviews2026-07-24 — 13 pageviews2026-07-27 — 12 pageviews2026-07-30 — 27 pageviews2026-08-02 — 18 pageviews2026-08-05 — 25 pageviews2026-08-08 — 20 pageviews2026-08-11 — 18 pageviews2026-08-14 — 12 pageviews2026-08-17 — 24 pageviews2026-08-20 — 22 pageviews2026-08-23 — 12 pageviews2026-08-26 — 22 pageviews2026-08-28 — 17 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerMulti-playerPvPOnline PvPShared/Split Screen PvPCo-opOnline Co-opShared/Split Screen Co-opShared/Split ScreenSteam Achievements

7 supported languages: English, French, Italian, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Russian

Player tags

2DRetroActionArcadeShoot 'Em UpPixel GraphicsTop-Down Shooter

Census log

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

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