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SHOCK TROOPERS cover art

SHOCK TROOPERS

SNK CORPORATION · 2016-05-18

SteamGOG

Action

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative · Perspectives: Bird view / Isometric

Releases: May 18, 2016 (Mac), May 18, 2016 (Web browser), May 22, 2012 (Wii), May 18, 2016 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Aug 30, 2011 (PlayStation 3), Aug 30, 2011 (PlayStation Portable)

“SHOCK TROOPERS ”, the fan favorite 2D top-down view action shooting game released exclusively on NEOGEO MVS in 1997, returns to the battlefield on Steam!Progress through the battlefield, choosing the best routes and strategy!

SHOCK TROOPERS is an Action game released in 2016, priced at $7.99, with an estimated 20,000 .. 50,000 owners and a Very Positive (83% of 286 reviews) sentiment.

1
playing now
83%
positive of 286 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
70/100
IGDB user rating (2 ratings)
silver
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$7.99
steam price (US)

1 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 07:00 UTC (census sample)

Shock Troopers is a run and gun arcade game developed by Saurus and published by SNK in 1997 for the Neo-Geo arcade MVS platform. Gameplay involves taking command of one or three soldiers in an eight-way shooter. A second game in the series, Shock Troopers: 2nd Squad, followed up in 1998.

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 1 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 30 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~4/week).
  • · Review velocity down 12% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 26% of 27,667 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-01

Estimated sales: 7.2k–17k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 286 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 5×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $7.99 · on sale 74 of 86 observed days · $5.10 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
7720162026Week of 2016-05-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2016-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-09-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2017-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

402026-09-15 07:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 16:00 — 2 players2026-09-17 23:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 07:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 14:00 — 0 players2026-09-21 22:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 05:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 13:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 20:00 — 0 players2026-09-27 04:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 12:00 — 1 players2026-09-29 19:00 — 4 players2026-10-01 03:00 — 1 players2026-10-02 10:00 — 2 players2026-10-03 18:00 — 2 players2026-10-05 02:00 — 1 players2026-10-06 09:00 — 2 players2026-10-07 17:00 — 1 players2026-10-09 00:00 — 2 players2026-10-10 08:00 — 1 players2026-10-11 15:00 — 1 players2026-10-12 23:00 — 2 players2026-10-14 07:00 — 1 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$7.99$0.892016-01-062026-10-142016-01-06 — best price $7.992017-12-12 — best price $2.992019-03-12 — best price $5.992019-06-18 — best price $5.992019-09-03 — best price $3.992020-01-02 — best price $5.992020-02-17 — best price $3.202020-05-22 — best price $3.992020-07-10 — best price $7.992020-08-31 — best price $5.892020-10-21 — best price $1.792020-12-22 — best price $3.992021-03-02 — best price $3.992021-05-05 — best price $5.872021-06-13 — best price $5.872021-09-01 — best price $7.992021-11-30 — best price $7.992022-02-10 — best price $7.192022-04-10 — best price $7.992022-06-22 — best price $7.192022-08-01 — best price $5.992022-09-16 — best price $5.872022-11-25 — best price $3.992023-01-15 — best price $6.152023-03-23 — best price $7.992023-05-11 — best price $6.322023-07-10 — best price $2.992023-09-14 — best price $5.892024-03-19 — best price $1.492024-10-16 — best price $1.492025-06-06 — best price $0.892025-12-20 — best price $6.622026-07-22 — best price $7.392026-09-16 — best price $5.992026-10-11 — best price $5.992026-10-14 — best price $5.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

70222026-05-31 — 38 pageviews2026-06-04 — 34 pageviews2026-06-08 — 48 pageviews2026-06-12 — 35 pageviews2026-06-16 — 23 pageviews2026-06-20 — 40 pageviews2026-06-24 — 25 pageviews2026-06-28 — 60 pageviews2026-07-02 — 51 pageviews2026-07-06 — 47 pageviews2026-07-10 — 43 pageviews2026-07-14 — 39 pageviews2026-07-18 — 33 pageviews2026-07-22 — 37 pageviews2026-07-26 — 35 pageviews2026-07-30 — 42 pageviews2026-08-03 — 28 pageviews2026-08-07 — 27 pageviews2026-08-11 — 32 pageviews2026-08-15 — 39 pageviews2026-08-19 — 32 pageviews2026-08-23 — 39 pageviews2026-08-27 — 26 pageviews2026-08-31 — 30 pageviews2026-09-04 — 37 pageviews2026-09-08 — 43 pageviews2026-09-12 — 40 pageviews2026-09-16 — 32 pageviews2026-09-20 — 55 pageviews2026-09-24 — 49 pageviews2026-09-28 — 31 pageviews2026-10-02 — 28 pageviews2026-10-06 — 32 pageviews2026-10-10 — 34 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

15
achievements tracked
43%
earned "Killer"
12.7%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerMulti-playerCo-opShared/Split ScreenSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam CloudSteam LeaderboardsRemote Play TogetherFamily Sharing

5 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)8788%15

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

Player tags

2DAnimeRetroActionArcadeShooterLocal Co-OpShoot 'Em UpPixel GraphicsTop-Down Shooter

Census log

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

Players also track

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Similarity via IGDB.

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