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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 · Perspectives: Side view

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.

Super Hydorah is an Action and Indie title released in 2017, priced at $19.99, with an estimated 0 to 20,000 owners and a Very Positive review sentiment (86% of 322 reviews).

86%
positive of 329 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
76/100
critic score (4 outlets, IGDB)
70/100
IGDB user rating (4 ratings)
4.40★
PlayStation Store rating (173 ratings)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Verified
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$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 24% of 27,960 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 8.2k–20k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 329 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 20 of 39 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$1.992017-09-212026-10-152017-09-21 — best price $11.992018-02-15 — best price $13.392018-10-30 — best price $13.992019-02-04 — best price $13.992019-10-28 — best price $13.992019-12-19 — best price $13.992020-06-25 — best price $9.992020-11-25 — best price $8.992021-02-11 — best price $9.992021-10-28 — best price $11.992021-12-22 — best price $7.992022-06-13 — best price $11.992023-03-16 — best price $7.992023-07-31 — best price $9.992023-12-21 — best price $9.992024-03-14 — best price $9.992024-06-13 — best price $19.992024-10-31 — best price $19.992025-01-09 — best price $19.992025-03-20 — best price $19.992025-06-12 — best price $19.992025-07-28 — best price $10.992025-09-08 — best price $12.992025-10-06 — best price $19.992025-11-27 — best price $19.992026-01-15 — best price $19.992026-03-19 — best price $14.992026-05-19 — best price $19.992026-06-25 — best price $7.992026-08-27 — best price $19.992026-09-04 — best price $4.992026-09-08 — best price $4.992026-09-24 — best price $19.992026-10-15 — best price $19.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

1402026-05-21 — 11 pageviews2026-05-25 — 5 pageviews2026-05-29 — 1 pageviews2026-06-02 — 3 pageviews2026-06-06 — 6 pageviews2026-06-10 — 4 pageviews2026-06-14 — 8 pageviews2026-06-18 — 5 pageviews2026-06-22 — 4 pageviews2026-06-26 — 3 pageviews2026-06-30 — 6 pageviews2026-07-04 — 4 pageviews2026-07-08 — 4 pageviews2026-07-12 — 9 pageviews2026-07-16 — 7 pageviews2026-07-20 — 14 pageviews2026-07-24 — 2 pageviews2026-07-28 — 7 pageviews2026-08-01 — 2 pageviews2026-08-05 — 4 pageviews2026-08-09 — 5 pageviews2026-08-13 — 9 pageviews2026-08-17 — 5 pageviews2026-08-21 — 2 pageviews2026-08-25 — 8 pageviews2026-08-29 — 7 pageviews2026-09-02 — 3 pageviews2026-09-06 — 6 pageviews2026-09-10 — 1 pageviews2026-09-14 — 7 pageviews2026-09-19 — 11 pageviews2026-09-23 — 7 pageviews2026-09-27 — 1 pageviews2026-10-01 — 4 pageviews2026-10-05 — 3 pageviews2026-10-09 — 6 pageviews2026-10-12 — 3 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

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2023-09-25 (Steam store data)

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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