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Steel Assault

Zenovia Interactive · Tribute Games Inc. · 2021-09-28

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Action

Modes: Single player

Releases: Sep 28, 2021 (Nintendo Switch), Sep 28, 2021 (Mac), Sep 28, 2021 (Linux), Sep 28, 2021 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Jun 15, 2023 (Xbox One), Jun 15, 2023 (PlayStation 4)

Punch, whip, and zipline your way through a post-apocalyptic America in this 16-bit retro-style action platformer! Play as Taro Takahashi, a resistance soldier on a revenge mission against the dictator who lords over the ashes.

0
playing now
77%
positive of 445 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam rating
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
81/100
critic score (2 outlets, IGDB)
silver
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$14.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 12:00 UTC (census sample)

Steel Assault is a 2021 side-scrolling action-platforming video game developed by Zenovia Interactive and published by Tribute Games. It was released for Windows and Nintendo Switch on September 28, 2021 and for Amazon Luna on April 7, 2022. In this 16-bit style game, the player controls the character Taro Takahashi, a resistance soldier on a revenge mission against the dictator who lords over the ashes. The game was first announced on Kickstarter in early 2015.

Health check

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  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 47% of 10,936 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 8.9k–20k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 445 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

lowest across shops (ITAD)$8.99-40%
Microsoft Store$14.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $3.74 at Steam (2025-06-26)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $14.99 · on sale 5 of 10 observed days · $5.25 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Players online

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Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$14.99$3.742021-09-282026-08-282021-09-28 — best price $13.492021-11-24 — best price $11.992022-01-05 — best price $14.992022-02-03 — best price $14.992022-02-19 — best price $14.992022-03-24 — best price $8.992022-04-03 — best price $14.992022-05-16 — best price $14.992022-06-18 — best price $14.992022-07-30 — best price $7.492022-10-31 — best price $14.992022-11-29 — best price $14.992022-12-22 — best price $7.492023-01-20 — best price $6.002023-02-07 — best price $14.992023-03-23 — best price $14.992023-05-05 — best price $7.192023-07-13 — best price $14.992023-10-02 — best price $14.992023-11-21 — best price $8.992023-12-15 — best price $6.002024-01-06 — best price $14.992024-03-14 — best price $5.992024-04-22 — best price $14.992024-06-27 — best price $5.992024-08-10 — best price $14.992024-09-18 — best price $7.492024-11-14 — best price $14.992024-12-19 — best price $8.992025-03-20 — best price $14.992025-08-18 — best price $5.992025-10-06 — best price $14.992026-03-19 — best price $11.242026-07-09 — best price $14.992026-08-28 — best price $14.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

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

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam CloudFamily Sharing1 DLC

8 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Japanese, Portuguese - Brazil, Spanish - Latin America, Simplified Chinese

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)6672%20
PS4 (PlayStation)3006%21
Xbox One (Xbox)1742%20
Switch (Nintendo)460%0

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

Player tags

2DRetroActionArcadeSci-fiAmericaDifficultFast-PacedPlatformerBullet Hell

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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