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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 · Perspectives: Bird view / Isometric

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!

SHOCK TROOPERS 2nd Squad is an Action game released in 2016, priced at $1.19, with an estimated 20,000 to 50,000 owners and a Mixed review sentiment (54% of 166 reviews).

0
playing now
54%
positive of 166 reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
71/100
IGDB user rating (10 ratings)
bronze
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$1.19
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 23:00 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

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 16 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity down 24% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 32% of 27,802 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-01

Estimated sales: 4.2k–10.0k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 166 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

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 75 of 87 observed days · $5.10 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
5520162026Week of 2016-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-10-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2016-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2016-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2017-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 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 2021-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-09-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

102026-09-15 08:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 16:00 — 0 players2026-09-18 00:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 07:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 15:00 — 0 players2026-09-21 23:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 06:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 14:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 21:00 — 0 players2026-09-27 05:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 12:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 20:00 — 1 players2026-10-01 03:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 11:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 19:00 — 0 players2026-10-05 03:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 10:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 18:00 — 0 players2026-10-09 01:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 09:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 16:00 — 0 players2026-10-13 00:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 07:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 23:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$7.99$0.892016-01-062026-10-152016-01-06 — 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 $6.752026-09-14 — best price $5.992026-10-04 — best price $5.992026-10-15 — best price $5.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

7872026-05-31 — 19 pageviews2026-06-04 — 14 pageviews2026-06-08 — 23 pageviews2026-06-12 — 19 pageviews2026-06-16 — 7 pageviews2026-06-20 — 20 pageviews2026-06-24 — 10 pageviews2026-06-28 — 22 pageviews2026-07-02 — 25 pageviews2026-07-06 — 23 pageviews2026-07-10 — 24 pageviews2026-07-14 — 24 pageviews2026-07-18 — 16 pageviews2026-07-22 — 25 pageviews2026-07-26 — 16 pageviews2026-07-30 — 27 pageviews2026-08-03 — 19 pageviews2026-08-07 — 16 pageviews2026-08-11 — 18 pageviews2026-08-15 — 16 pageviews2026-08-19 — 15 pageviews2026-08-23 — 12 pageviews2026-08-27 — 20 pageviews2026-08-31 — 15 pageviews2026-09-04 — 16 pageviews2026-09-08 — 10 pageviews2026-09-12 — 15 pageviews2026-09-16 — 17 pageviews2026-09-20 — 29 pageviews2026-09-24 — 21 pageviews2026-09-28 — 26 pageviews2026-10-02 — 18 pageviews2026-10-06 — 18 pageviews2026-10-10 — 16 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

10
achievements tracked
26.6%
earned "Team"
15.8%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

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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