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Skull Island: Rise of Kong

IguanaBee · GameMill Entertainment · 2023-10-17

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ActionAdventure

Franchise: King Kong · Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Third person

Releases: Oct 17, 2023 (Nintendo Switch), Oct 17, 2023 (PlayStation 4), Oct 17, 2023 (PlayStation 5), Oct 17, 2023 (Xbox One), Oct 17, 2023 (Xbox Series X|S), Oct 17, 2023 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Embark on a quest to avenge the death of your parents at the hands of the alpha predator: Gaw. Conquer waves of primal beasts and defeat the minions of your arch-nemesis. Traverse the mysterious island and uncover secrets as you encounter swamps, waterfalls, jungle, and skullite-filled caves.

35%
positive of 209 reviews
Mostly Negative
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
15/100
critic score (1 outlets, IGDB)
23/100
IGDB user rating (5 ratings)
$11.99
steam price (US)
Skull Island: Rise of Kong is a 2023 action-adventure video game developed by IguanaBee and published by GameMill Entertainment. The game is based on the King Kong novels by DeVito Artworks.

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 26 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~3/week).
  • · Review velocity up 24% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 49% of 14,151 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 4.2k–9.4k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 209 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

Microsoft Store$39.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $3.99 at IndieGala Store (2025-02-07)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $39.99 · on sale 0 of 1 observed days · $36.00 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
383820232026Week of 2023-10-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 38 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Attention

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

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsPartial Controller SupportFamily Sharing1 DLC

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

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Xbox Series, Xbox One (Xbox)23214%27
Steam (Steam)11510%28
Switch (Nintendo)160%0

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

Player tags

NSFWActionCombatHentaiNudityAdventureCapitalismDating SimSouls-likeStory Rich

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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