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Showgunners cover art

Showgunners

Artificer · Good Shepherd Entertainment · 2023-05-02

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Modes: Single player

Releases: May 02, 2023 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Feb 19, 2026 (PlayStation 4), Feb 19, 2026 (PlayStation 5), Feb 19, 2026 (Xbox One), Feb 19, 2026 (Xbox Series X|S)

As a contestant on a high stakes reality game show of the future, you must survive a dangerous urban environment packed with traps, confounding puzzles, and heavily armed psychopaths. Turn-based combat in hand crafted levels, built for entertainment.

8
playing now
93%
positive of 2.0k reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
80/100
critic score (1 outlets, IGDB)
18h
to beat · rushed 14h · completionist 23h
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$29.99
steam price (US)

8 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 05:00 UTC (census sample)

Showgunners is a turn-based tactics video game developed by Artificer and published by Good Shepherd Entertainment. Players control a contestant on a brutal game show where people fight to the death. It was released on Windows in May 2023.

Health check

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Estimated sales: 39k–88k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 1,959 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

GOG$8.99-70%
lowest across shops (ITAD)$8.99-70%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $2.99 at Humble Store (2024-11-21) · bundled 4×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $29.99 · on sale 74 of 116 observed days · $6.00 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Players online

1722026-08-11 19:00 — 17 players2026-08-12 10:00 — 6 players2026-08-13 02:00 — 6 players2026-08-13 18:00 — 12 players2026-08-14 10:00 — 9 players2026-08-15 02:00 — 6 players2026-08-15 17:00 — 11 players2026-08-16 09:00 — 12 players2026-08-17 01:00 — 6 players2026-08-17 17:00 — 15 players2026-08-18 09:00 — 8 players2026-08-19 01:00 — 6 players2026-08-19 16:00 — 16 players2026-08-20 08:00 — 7 players2026-08-21 00:00 — 2 players2026-08-21 16:00 — 10 players2026-08-22 07:00 — 5 players2026-08-22 23:00 — 3 players2026-08-23 15:00 — 7 players2026-08-24 07:00 — 4 players2026-08-24 23:00 — 8 players2026-08-25 14:00 — 10 players2026-08-26 07:00 — 6 players2026-08-26 23:00 — 5 players2026-08-28 05:00 — 6 players2026-08-28 21:00 — 12 players2026-08-29 13:00 — 12 players2026-08-30 05:00 — 8 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$29.99$8.182023-05-022026-08-302023-05-02 — best price $26.692023-07-17 — best price $19.492023-08-18 — best price $23.992023-10-04 — best price $19.492023-11-25 — best price $20.362023-12-22 — best price $14.872024-01-21 — best price $29.992024-02-28 — best price $29.992024-03-23 — best price $29.992024-05-03 — best price $12.502024-06-12 — best price $29.992024-07-12 — best price $11.792024-08-11 — best price $12.502024-09-09 — best price $11.892024-10-07 — best price $29.992024-11-03 — best price $22.492024-11-30 — best price $15.002025-01-03 — best price $11.992025-02-03 — best price $22.042025-03-19 — best price $10.492025-04-24 — best price $29.992025-05-28 — best price $29.992025-07-02 — best price $10.392025-08-22 — best price $22.042025-09-29 — best price $8.182025-11-13 — best price $8.992026-01-07 — best price $29.992026-01-23 — best price $8.992026-03-12 — best price $10.492026-04-17 — best price $29.992026-05-28 — best price $29.992026-07-16 — best price $8.992026-08-17 — best price $12.002026-08-30 — best price $8.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

2642026-05-29 — 11 pageviews2026-06-01 — 15 pageviews2026-06-04 — 10 pageviews2026-06-07 — 12 pageviews2026-06-10 — 19 pageviews2026-06-13 — 15 pageviews2026-06-16 — 8 pageviews2026-06-19 — 11 pageviews2026-06-22 — 11 pageviews2026-06-25 — 9 pageviews2026-06-28 — 6 pageviews2026-07-01 — 11 pageviews2026-07-04 — 6 pageviews2026-07-07 — 7 pageviews2026-07-10 — 4 pageviews2026-07-13 — 10 pageviews2026-07-16 — 6 pageviews2026-07-19 — 16 pageviews2026-07-22 — 11 pageviews2026-07-25 — 4 pageviews2026-07-28 — 8 pageviews2026-07-31 — 10 pageviews2026-08-03 — 5 pageviews2026-08-06 — 5 pageviews2026-08-09 — 9 pageviews2026-08-12 — 9 pageviews2026-08-15 — 8 pageviews2026-08-18 — 7 pageviews2026-08-21 — 6 pageviews2026-08-24 — 10 pageviews2026-08-26 — 6 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

54
achievements tracked
86.4%
earned "Season Premiere"
32.1%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam CloudFamily Sharing4 DLC

9 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)9827%54
PS5 (PlayStation)7718%55
Xbox Series (Xbox)248%54

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

Player tags

Dark1990'sActionSci-fiStrategyTacticalTop-DownIsometricDystopian Atmospheric

Census log

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

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