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SteamWorld Heist II

Thunderful Development · Thunderful Publishing · 2024-08-08

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IndieRPGStrategy

Modes: Single player

Releases: Aug 08, 2024 (Nintendo Switch), Aug 08, 2024 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Aug 08, 2024 (PlayStation 4), Aug 08, 2024 (PlayStation 5), Aug 08, 2024 (Xbox One), Aug 08, 2024 (Xbox Series X|S)

Skill-based gunplay meets turn-based tactics in SteamWorld Heist 2! Aim carefully, bounce bullets, and pull off trick shots in high-stakes heists. Choose your crew and utilize 150+ items to navigate real-time naval battles and daring missions in this 30+ hour adventure to stop a deadly water crisis.

18
playing now
93%
positive of 2.5k reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
87/100
critic score (7 outlets, IGDB)
74/100
IGDB user rating (6 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$29.99
steam price (US)

18 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 07:00 UTC (census sample)

SteamWorld Heist II is a 2024 turn-based tactics shooter video game developed and published by Thunderful. As the seventh installment in the SteamWorld series and the sequel to SteamWorld Heist (2015), the game was released for Windows, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X and Series S in August 2024.

Health check

Healthy
  • · 18 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 238 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~30/week).
  • · Review velocity down 37% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 15% of 17,990 Indie games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-30

Estimated sales: 50k–111k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 2,475 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

Humble Store$7.49-75%
lowest across shops (ITAD)$7.49-75%
GreenManGaming$7.50-75%
Microsoft Store$29.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $5.99 at Fanatical (2025-11-04) · bundled 3×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $29.99 · on sale 94 of 135 observed days · $1.51 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
62262220242026Week of 2024-08-01: 622 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 27 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 149 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 176 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 118 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 202 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 111 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 70 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 57 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 47 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 38 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 42 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 65 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 59 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 28 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 26 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 41 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 33 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 33 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 20 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

3592026-08-11 23:00 — 22 players2026-08-12 15:00 — 31 players2026-08-13 07:00 — 12 players2026-08-13 23:00 — 17 players2026-08-14 14:00 — 32 players2026-08-15 06:00 — 20 players2026-08-15 22:00 — 28 players2026-08-16 14:00 — 35 players2026-08-17 06:00 — 9 players2026-08-17 22:00 — 23 players2026-08-18 14:00 — 24 players2026-08-19 05:00 — 14 players2026-08-19 21:00 — 20 players2026-08-20 13:00 — 28 players2026-08-21 05:00 — 17 players2026-08-21 20:00 — 33 players2026-08-22 12:00 — 32 players2026-08-23 04:00 — 19 players2026-08-23 20:00 — 33 players2026-08-24 11:00 — 23 players2026-08-25 03:00 — 21 players2026-08-25 19:00 — 21 players2026-08-26 11:00 — 20 players2026-08-27 04:00 — 18 players2026-08-27 19:00 — 27 players2026-08-28 07:00 — 9 players2026-08-28 23:00 — 19 players2026-08-29 15:00 — 32 players2026-08-30 07:00 — 18 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$29.99$5.162024-08-082026-08-302024-08-08 — best price $21.242024-09-25 — best price $20.992024-10-18 — best price $19.492024-11-12 — best price $19.792024-11-26 — best price $17.992024-12-13 — best price $17.992025-01-10 — best price $14.532025-02-03 — best price $29.992025-02-24 — best price $29.992025-03-11 — best price $14.992025-04-10 — best price $14.992025-05-13 — best price $14.992025-05-29 — best price $11.092025-06-16 — best price $22.492025-07-11 — best price $29.992025-08-07 — best price $11.992025-09-08 — best price $11.992025-09-27 — best price $29.992025-10-13 — best price $9.292025-10-28 — best price $9.892025-11-20 — best price $9.892025-12-05 — best price $29.992026-01-03 — best price $9.902026-01-23 — best price $7.492026-02-12 — best price $7.492026-03-05 — best price $29.992026-03-26 — best price $29.992026-04-13 — best price $29.992026-05-14 — best price $7.492026-06-04 — best price $8.992026-07-16 — best price $7.492026-08-10 — best price $7.492026-08-18 — best price $29.992026-08-30 — best price $7.50
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

103112026-05-29 — 20 pageviews2026-06-01 — 21 pageviews2026-06-04 — 13 pageviews2026-06-07 — 21 pageviews2026-06-10 — 16 pageviews2026-06-13 — 29 pageviews2026-06-16 — 23 pageviews2026-06-19 — 16 pageviews2026-06-22 — 28 pageviews2026-06-25 — 17 pageviews2026-06-28 — 40 pageviews2026-07-01 — 23 pageviews2026-07-04 — 28 pageviews2026-07-07 — 38 pageviews2026-07-10 — 26 pageviews2026-07-13 — 25 pageviews2026-07-16 — 15 pageviews2026-07-19 — 103 pageviews2026-07-22 — 47 pageviews2026-07-25 — 30 pageviews2026-07-28 — 24 pageviews2026-07-31 — 13 pageviews2026-08-03 — 26 pageviews2026-08-06 — 27 pageviews2026-08-09 — 15 pageviews2026-08-12 — 15 pageviews2026-08-15 — 24 pageviews2026-08-18 — 24 pageviews2026-08-21 — 31 pageviews2026-08-24 — 24 pageviews2026-08-26 — 26 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

34
achievements tracked
88.5%
earned "Sub-Optimal"
25.2%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam Trading CardsDualShock Controller SupportDualShock Controller SupportDualSense Controller SupportDualSense Controller SupportSteam CloudFamily Sharing1 DLC

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

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)2,1273%34
PS5 (PlayStation)57210%35
Xbox Series, Xbox One (Xbox)2422%34
Switch (Nintendo)1220%0
PS4 (PlayStation)6123%35

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

Player tags

2DRPGFunnyHeistActionPuzzleStrategyAdventureStory RichTurn-Based

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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