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Steelborn cover art

Steelborn

Vega Horizon Studio · Take Aim Games · 2023-03-07

Steam

ActionAdventureCasualIndie

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Side view

Releases: Mar 07, 2023 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Steelborn - is a run and gun platformer game inspired by the classics and made by a team of Abuse, Ranger-X, Contra, Metal Slug, Blaster Master and H.E.R.O fans.

81%
positive of 57 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
$14.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 48 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~6/week).
  • · Top 61% of 17,517 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 1.1k–2.6k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 57 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $4.49 at Steam (2026-06-25)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $14.99 · on sale 4 of 8 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
363620232025Week of 2023-03-01: 36 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$14.99$4.492023-03-072026-07-092023-03-07 — best price $13.492023-03-14 — best price $14.992023-05-18 — best price $10.492023-05-25 — best price $14.992023-07-01 — best price $8.992023-07-13 — best price $14.992023-10-09 — best price $9.742023-10-16 — best price $14.992023-11-21 — best price $11.242023-11-28 — best price $14.992023-12-22 — best price $11.242024-01-04 — best price $14.992024-03-14 — best price $7.492024-03-21 — best price $14.992024-06-27 — best price $9.742024-07-11 — best price $14.992024-11-27 — best price $7.492024-12-04 — best price $14.992024-12-28 — best price $7.492025-01-02 — best price $14.992025-03-13 — best price $7.492025-03-20 — best price $14.992025-09-29 — best price $7.492025-10-06 — best price $14.992025-12-18 — best price $5.992026-01-05 — best price $14.992026-03-19 — best price $5.992026-03-26 — best price $14.992026-06-25 — best price $4.492026-07-09 — best price $14.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsPartial Controller SupportSteam CloudFamily Sharing1 DLC

8 supported languages: English, German, Russian, Portuguese - Brazil, Simplified Chinese, Spanish - Spain, Turkish, Indonesian

Player tags

2DFMVMechsActionArcadeCasualLore-RichControllerPlatformerStory Rich

Census log

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

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