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Skulls of the Shogun cover art

Skulls of the Shogun

17-BIT · 2013-07-29

SteamPlayStation StoreXbox

IndieStrategy

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer

Releases: Jan 30, 2013 (Xbox 360), Jul 29, 2013 (Mac), Jul 29, 2013 (Linux), Jul 29, 2013 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), TBD (PlayStation Vita), TBD (Android)

Enter the Samurai Afterlife and join forces with vibrant ghost-samurai warriors, magical animal monks, and mustachioed samurai generals. It's fast-paced turn-based strategy inspired by Advance Wars, and supercharged with fighting-game flare!

2
playing now
90%
positive of 869 reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
82/100
critic score (6 outlets, IGDB)
63/100
IGDB user rating (12 ratings)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$9.99
steam price (US)

2 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 04:00 UTC (census sample)

Skulls of the Shogun is a turn-based tactics video game developed by 17-Bit. The game is inspired by Advance Wars and features turn-based combat between undead samurai. Skulls of the Shogun was originally planned for a 2012 release on Xbox Live Arcade and Windows 8. Eventually it was released for Xbox 360 and Windows Phone on January 30, 2013.

Health check

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 27% of 18,104 Indie games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 35k–70k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 869 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $1.49 at Steam (2020-06-25) · bundled 9×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $9.99 · on sale 3 of 6 observed days (census price snapshots)

Players online

602026-08-06 23:00 — 2 players2026-08-07 07:00 — 1 players2026-08-07 15:00 — 1 players2026-08-07 23:00 — 2 players2026-08-08 07:00 — 3 players2026-08-08 15:00 — 3 players2026-08-08 23:00 — 3 players2026-08-09 07:00 — 1 players2026-08-09 15:00 — 3 players2026-08-09 23:00 — 6 players2026-08-10 07:00 — 4 players2026-08-10 15:00 — 6 players2026-08-10 23:00 — 5 players2026-08-11 07:00 — 5 players2026-08-11 15:00 — 2 players2026-08-12 23:00 — 0 players2026-08-14 06:00 — 1 players2026-08-15 14:00 — 3 players2026-08-16 22:00 — 2 players2026-08-18 06:00 — 1 players2026-08-19 13:00 — 1 players2026-08-20 21:00 — 2 players2026-08-22 04:00 — 2 players2026-08-23 12:00 — 1 players2026-08-24 19:00 — 6 players2026-08-26 03:00 — 2 players2026-08-27 12:00 — 2 players2026-08-28 20:00 — 4 players2026-08-30 04:00 — 2 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$9.99$1.492015-01-012026-07-092015-01-01 — best price $4.992015-11-26 — best price $4.992016-12-22 — best price $3.992020-03-09 — best price $9.992020-05-28 — best price $9.992020-06-12 — best price $9.992020-06-27 — best price $7.342020-07-23 — best price $9.992020-08-07 — best price $9.992020-08-22 — best price $9.992020-09-06 — best price $9.992020-09-21 — best price $9.992020-10-09 — best price $9.992020-10-24 — best price $9.992020-11-09 — best price $9.992020-11-24 — best price $9.992020-12-10 — best price $8.992021-01-04 — best price $9.992021-01-20 — best price $9.992021-02-04 — best price $9.992021-02-19 — best price $9.992021-03-08 — best price $9.992021-03-23 — best price $9.992021-04-07 — best price $9.992021-04-22 — best price $9.992021-05-07 — best price $9.992021-05-22 — best price $9.992021-06-06 — best price $9.992021-10-28 — best price $4.992022-01-06 — best price $8.992022-06-24 — best price $7.342023-07-11 — best price $8.992026-03-25 — best price $1.492026-07-09 — best price $9.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

3462026-06-01 — 12 pageviews2026-06-04 — 11 pageviews2026-06-07 — 15 pageviews2026-06-10 — 12 pageviews2026-06-13 — 13 pageviews2026-06-16 — 17 pageviews2026-06-19 — 11 pageviews2026-06-22 — 15 pageviews2026-06-25 — 9 pageviews2026-06-28 — 17 pageviews2026-07-01 — 22 pageviews2026-07-04 — 8 pageviews2026-07-07 — 10 pageviews2026-07-10 — 17 pageviews2026-07-13 — 19 pageviews2026-07-16 — 11 pageviews2026-07-19 — 12 pageviews2026-07-22 — 12 pageviews2026-07-25 — 16 pageviews2026-07-28 — 12 pageviews2026-07-31 — 13 pageviews2026-08-03 — 11 pageviews2026-08-06 — 12 pageviews2026-08-09 — 17 pageviews2026-08-12 — 6 pageviews2026-08-15 — 19 pageviews2026-08-18 — 15 pageviews2026-08-21 — 19 pageviews2026-08-24 — 25 pageviews2026-08-27 — 11 pageviews2026-08-29 — 23 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

27
achievements tracked
42%
earned "Devil Inside"
2.8%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxFull controller supportSingle-playerMulti-playerPvPOnline PvPShared/Split Screen PvPSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam Trading CardsCaptions availableSteam Cloud

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

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
PS4 (PlayStation)10,6092%19
Steam (Steam)4,0171%27
Xbox 360 (Xbox)1,1704%20
WP (Xbox)8703%20
Windows 8 (Xbox)4735%20

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

Player tags

2DFunnyIndieComedyCartoonyStrategyTacticalTurn-BasedMultiplayerSingleplayer

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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