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Soldat cover art

Soldat

Transhuman Design · 2020-04-15

Steam

ActionIndieFree To Play

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer · Perspectives: Side view

Releases: May 09, 2002 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Soldat is a unique 2D (side-view) multiplayer action game. Soldiers fight against each other in 2D battle arenas using a deadly arsenal of military weapons, across 7 default game modes.

Soldat is an Action, Indie and Free To Play game released in 2020, free-to-play, with an estimated 200,000 .. 500,000 owners and a Very Positive review sentiment (94% of 1791 reviews).

7
playing now
94%
positive of 1.8k reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
82/100
IGDB user rating (27 ratings)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
Free
steam price (US)

7 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 13:00 UTC (census sample)

Soldat is a 2D multiplayer video game for Microsoft Windows. It is a run and gun game influenced by Liero and Scorched Earth, combined with elements from Counter-Strike and Worms.

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 7 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 39 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~5/week).
  • · Review velocity down 30% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (648 reviews).
  • · Top 12% of 27,667 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-30

All-time low: $14.99 at Desura (2013-07-25)via IsThereAnyDeal

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
61961920202026Week of 2020-03-01: 67 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 619 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 29 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 88 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 46 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 26 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 362 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 43 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 30 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 3 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

2112026-09-14 22:00 — 19 players2026-09-16 07:00 — 1 players2026-09-17 14:00 — 12 players2026-09-18 22:00 — 14 players2026-09-20 05:00 — 2 players2026-09-21 13:00 — 6 players2026-09-22 20:00 — 10 players2026-09-24 04:00 — 5 players2026-09-25 11:00 — 1 players2026-09-26 19:00 — 11 players2026-09-28 02:00 — 12 players2026-09-29 10:00 — 1 players2026-09-30 17:00 — 11 players2026-10-02 01:00 — 8 players2026-10-03 08:00 — 3 players2026-10-04 17:00 — 10 players2026-10-06 00:00 — 10 players2026-10-07 08:00 — 5 players2026-10-08 15:00 — 13 players2026-10-09 23:00 — 7 players2026-10-11 06:00 — 3 players2026-10-12 14:00 — 6 players2026-10-13 21:00 — 15 players2026-10-14 13:00 — 7 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
1616Apr 2020Aug 2026Apr 2020 — avg 161 · peak 409Jun 2020 — avg 48 · peak 108Aug 2020 — avg 27 · peak 64Oct 2020 — avg 21 · peak 78Dec 2020 — avg 22 · peak 75Feb 2021 — avg 22 · peak 74Apr 2021 — avg 22 · peak 65Jun 2021 — avg 19 · peak 53Aug 2021 — avg 18 · peak 49Oct 2021 — avg 15 · peak 50Dec 2021 — avg 14 · peak 53Feb 2022 — avg 15 · peak 49Apr 2022 — avg 14 · peak 51Jun 2022 — avg 11 · peak 39Aug 2022 — avg 11 · peak 39Oct 2022 — avg 12 · peak 37Dec 2022 — avg 11 · peak 41Feb 2023 — avg 11 · peak 35Apr 2023 — avg 10 · peak 106Jun 2023 — avg 9 · peak 37Aug 2023 — avg 8 · peak 31Oct 2023 — avg 10 · peak 36Dec 2023 — avg 11 · peak 50Feb 2024 — avg 10 · peak 40Apr 2024 — avg 10 · peak 33Jun 2024 — avg 8 · peak 25Aug 2024 — avg 8 · peak 30Oct 2024 — avg 8 · peak 29Dec 2024 — avg 8 · peak 31Feb 2025 — avg 8 · peak 27Apr 2025 — avg 7 · peak 24Jun 2025 — avg 6 · peak 20Aug 2025 — avg 7 · peak 21Oct 2025 — avg 7 · peak 28Dec 2025 — avg 8 · peak 22Feb 2026 — avg 8 · peak 21Apr 2026 — avg 8 · peak 32Jun 2026 — avg 7 · peak 26Aug 2026 — avg 8 · peak 29
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Attention

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

Details

WindowsSingle-playerMulti-playerPvPOnline PvPLAN PvPSteam CloudFamily Sharing1 DLC

15 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Czech, Dutch, Finnish, Greek, Hungarian, Polish, Russian…

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2020-04-23 (Steam store data)

Player tags

2DPvPGoreCo-opIndieActionClassicShooterViolentMultiplayer

Census log

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

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