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Swords and Soldiers HD cover art

Swords and Soldiers HD

Ronimo Games · Atari · 2010-12-02

Steam

ActionCasualIndieStrategy

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Split screen

Releases: Jun 08, 2009 (Wii), Aug 09, 2010 (PlayStation 3), Dec 02, 2010 (Mac), May 02, 2012 (Android), Jul 06, 2011 (iOS), 2012 (Linux)

Rewrite history as you take control of the brutal Vikings, the devious Aztecs or the crafty Chinese in their global quest to win the favour of the Gods! Swords & Soldiers is a side-scrolling strategy game that lets you control an entire army and lets you wield devastating magical abilities.

0
playing now
78%
positive of 1.1k reviews
Mostly Positive
steam rating
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
85/100
critic score (2 outlets, IGDB)
66/100
IGDB user rating (10 ratings)
8h
time to beat (IGDB)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$0.89
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 04:00 UTC (census sample)

Swords & Soldiers is a 2009 real-time strategy video game developed and published by Ronimo Games. It was released in Europe on May 15, 2009, and in North America on June 8. It is available for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Android, Wii, PlayStation 3, iOS, Nintendo 3DS, Wii U, and Nintendo Switch. Two Tribes released Swords & Soldiers on the Wii U eShop, which was released in North America and Europe on May 22, 2014.

Health check

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 34% of 10,936 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 42k–84k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 1,055 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

lowest across shops (ITAD)$0.89-85%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $0.59 at Steam (2023-11-21) · bundled 3×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $5.99 · on sale 10 of 19 observed days (census price snapshots)

Players online

502026-08-06 22:00 — 3 players2026-08-07 06:00 — 3 players2026-08-07 15:00 — 2 players2026-08-07 23:00 — 2 players2026-08-08 07:00 — 1 players2026-08-08 15:00 — 2 players2026-08-08 23:00 — 1 players2026-08-09 07:00 — 1 players2026-08-09 15:00 — 2 players2026-08-09 23:00 — 1 players2026-08-10 07:00 — 2 players2026-08-10 15:00 — 2 players2026-08-10 23:00 — 3 players2026-08-11 07:00 — 0 players2026-08-11 15:00 — 0 players2026-08-12 23:00 — 1 players2026-08-14 06:00 — 0 players2026-08-15 14:00 — 2 players2026-08-16 22:00 — 1 players2026-08-18 05:00 — 2 players2026-08-19 13:00 — 1 players2026-08-20 20:00 — 3 players2026-08-22 04:00 — 5 players2026-08-23 11:00 — 3 players2026-08-24 19:00 — 5 players2026-08-26 03:00 — 0 players2026-08-27 12:00 — 2 players2026-08-28 19:00 — 0 players2026-08-30 04:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$9.99$0.592015-01-012026-08-212015-01-01 — best price $2.492015-07-10 — best price $9.992016-01-04 — best price $9.992016-07-04 — best price $9.992017-01-02 — best price $9.992017-11-28 — best price $9.992018-02-19 — best price $9.992018-11-27 — best price $9.992019-02-11 — best price $9.992019-12-03 — best price $9.992020-01-27 — best price $9.992020-11-02 — best price $9.992021-01-05 — best price $9.992021-06-24 — best price $1.492021-11-24 — best price $1.192022-01-27 — best price $2.392022-11-22 — best price $1.192023-02-13 — best price $1.792023-06-29 — best price $1.192023-11-21 — best price $0.592024-03-14 — best price $2.992024-06-27 — best price $1.192024-10-21 — best price $2.692024-12-19 — best price $1.192025-03-13 — best price $1.192025-05-01 — best price $1.192025-08-15 — best price $1.192025-09-29 — best price $1.192025-12-18 — best price $1.192026-03-19 — best price $1.192026-06-25 — best price $1.192026-08-21 — best price $0.89
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

2472026-05-31 — 13 pageviews2026-06-03 — 19 pageviews2026-06-06 — 12 pageviews2026-06-09 — 19 pageviews2026-06-12 — 11 pageviews2026-06-15 — 18 pageviews2026-06-18 — 10 pageviews2026-06-21 — 11 pageviews2026-06-24 — 18 pageviews2026-06-27 — 10 pageviews2026-06-30 — 19 pageviews2026-07-03 — 15 pageviews2026-07-06 — 16 pageviews2026-07-09 — 16 pageviews2026-07-12 — 13 pageviews2026-07-15 — 11 pageviews2026-07-18 — 20 pageviews2026-07-21 — 10 pageviews2026-07-24 — 23 pageviews2026-07-27 — 22 pageviews2026-07-30 — 14 pageviews2026-08-02 — 17 pageviews2026-08-05 — 19 pageviews2026-08-08 — 12 pageviews2026-08-11 — 14 pageviews2026-08-14 — 15 pageviews2026-08-17 — 12 pageviews2026-08-20 — 14 pageviews2026-08-23 — 13 pageviews2026-08-26 — 16 pageviews2026-08-28 — 21 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

25
achievements tracked
38.1%
earned "Where are the Kangaroos?"
9.7%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSSingle-playerMulti-playerSteam AchievementsValve Anti-Cheat enabledSteam LeaderboardsFamily Sharing1 DLC

6 supported languages: Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Spanish - Spain

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)11,3023%25

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

Player tags

2DRTSFunnyIndieActionCasualVikingsCartoonyStrategyMultiplayer

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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