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Super Hydorah cover art

Super Hydorah

Locomalito · Abylight Studios · 2017-09-20

SteamPlayStation StoreEpic Games StoreAmazonMicrosoft Store

ActionIndie

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative

Releases: Nov 15, 2018 (Nintendo Switch), Sep 20, 2017 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Sep 20, 2017 (Xbox One), Dec 13, 2017 (PlayStation Vita), May 18, 2018 (iOS), Dec 13, 2017 (PlayStation 4)

Super Hydorah is a nonlinear horizontal shoot’ em up designed to offer a challenging experience, sublimating the richness of traditional shmup classics. Face the menace of the Meroptians aboard the Delta Lance, alone or with your friends in this game with direct action and nostalgic art.

86%
positive of 322 reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
76/100
critic score (4 outlets, IGDB)
70/100
IGDB user rating (4 ratings)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$19.99
steam price (US)
Super Hydorah is a 2017 independent side-scrolling shoot 'em up video game developed by Locomalito and published by Abylight Studios. It features a 16-32 bit era look and feel as well as a CRT Monitor effect. The game was released for Microsoft Windows, Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and PlayStation Vita on September 20, 2017, and later, in 2018, ported to iOS on May 17 and Nintendo Switch on November 15, respectively. The game is an expanded and enhanced version of the developer's previous freeware game Hydorah.

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 52 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~7/week).
  • · Review velocity up 189% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 52% of 10,862 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 8.1k–19k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 322 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

Microsoft Store$19.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $1.99 at Steam (2024-10-17) · bundled 1×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $19.99 · on sale 14 of 30 observed days · $18.00 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
272720172026Week of 2017-09-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2017-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-10-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2017-11-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-11-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$19.99$1.992017-09-212026-08-272017-09-21 — best price $11.992017-12-13 — best price $11.992018-06-21 — best price $13.992018-11-01 — best price $19.992019-02-04 — best price $13.992019-07-10 — best price $19.992019-11-26 — best price $13.992020-01-02 — best price $19.992020-06-25 — best price $9.992020-11-02 — best price $19.992020-12-22 — best price $13.992021-02-15 — best price $19.992021-10-28 — best price $11.992021-12-01 — best price $19.992022-01-27 — best price $9.992022-06-20 — best price $19.992023-03-16 — best price $7.992023-07-13 — best price $19.992023-09-25 — best price $9.992024-01-04 — best price $19.992024-03-14 — best price $9.992024-05-16 — best price $11.992024-07-11 — best price $19.992024-12-12 — best price $9.992025-01-09 — best price $19.992025-03-13 — best price $14.992025-04-09 — best price $19.992025-06-26 — best price $11.992025-07-28 — best price $10.992025-09-04 — best price $12.992025-09-18 — best price $19.992025-11-06 — best price $1.992025-11-27 — best price $19.992026-01-05 — best price $19.992026-02-02 — best price $19.992026-03-26 — best price $19.992026-05-19 — best price $19.992026-06-11 — best price $19.992026-07-16 — best price $7.992026-08-27 — best price $19.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

1412026-05-21 — 11 pageviews2026-05-24 — 4 pageviews2026-05-27 — 8 pageviews2026-05-30 — 2 pageviews2026-06-02 — 3 pageviews2026-06-05 — 5 pageviews2026-06-08 — 3 pageviews2026-06-11 — 5 pageviews2026-06-14 — 8 pageviews2026-06-17 — 2 pageviews2026-06-20 — 3 pageviews2026-06-23 — 1 pageviews2026-06-26 — 3 pageviews2026-06-29 — 7 pageviews2026-07-02 — 6 pageviews2026-07-05 — 4 pageviews2026-07-08 — 4 pageviews2026-07-11 — 8 pageviews2026-07-14 — 6 pageviews2026-07-17 — 10 pageviews2026-07-20 — 14 pageviews2026-07-23 — 4 pageviews2026-07-26 — 4 pageviews2026-07-29 — 10 pageviews2026-08-01 — 2 pageviews2026-08-04 — 7 pageviews2026-08-07 — 4 pageviews2026-08-10 — 4 pageviews2026-08-13 — 9 pageviews2026-08-16 — 5 pageviews2026-08-18 — 4 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

21
achievements tracked
32.1%
earned "Private"
5.8%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerMulti-playerPvPShared/Split Screen PvPCo-opShared/Split Screen Co-opSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam Trading CardsCustom Volume Controls1 DLC

8 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Russian, Turkish

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)5548%21
Xbox One (Xbox)3587%20
PS Vita (PlayStation)22173%21
PS Vita (PlayStation)21974%21
PS4 (PlayStation)18613%21
PS4 (PlayStation)18117%21
PS Vita (PlayStation)14874%21
Switch (Nintendo)120%0

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

Player tags

2DCo-opFunnyIndieRetroActionArcadeSci-fiDifficultGameMaker

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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