The Game Census
SHOCK TROOPERS cover art

SHOCK TROOPERS

SNK CORPORATION · 2016-05-18

SteamGOG

Action

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative

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!

0
playing now
83%
positive of 284 reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
70/100
IGDB user rating (2 ratings)
silver
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$7.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 12:00 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

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  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 54% of 10,862 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 7.1k–17k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 284 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 31 of 44 observed days · $5.10 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Players online

402026-08-12 00:00 — 0 players2026-08-12 16:00 — 4 players2026-08-13 08:00 — 0 players2026-08-14 00:00 — 0 players2026-08-14 16:00 — 0 players2026-08-15 08:00 — 0 players2026-08-15 23:00 — 0 players2026-08-16 15:00 — 0 players2026-08-17 07:00 — 1 players2026-08-17 23:00 — 0 players2026-08-18 15:00 — 0 players2026-08-19 07:00 — 0 players2026-08-19 22:00 — 0 players2026-08-20 14:00 — 0 players2026-08-21 06:00 — 1 players2026-08-21 22:00 — 1 players2026-08-22 14:00 — 1 players2026-08-23 05:00 — 1 players2026-08-23 21:00 — 2 players2026-08-24 13:00 — 0 players2026-08-25 05:00 — 0 players2026-08-25 21:00 — 0 players2026-08-26 13:00 — 0 players2026-08-27 05:00 — 0 players2026-08-27 22:00 — 0 players2026-08-28 14:00 — 0 players2026-08-29 04:00 — 0 players2026-08-29 20:00 — 1 players2026-08-30 12:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$7.99$0.892016-01-062026-08-302016-01-06 — 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 $7.392026-08-30 — best price $5.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

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Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

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

Player tags

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

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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