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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 · Perspectives: Side view

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.

Swords and Soldiers HD is an Action, Casual, Indie, and Strategy game released in 2010, priced at $0.89, with Mostly Positive reviews (78% of 1055 reviews) and an estimated 200,000 to 500,000 owners.

2
playing now
78%
positive of 1.1k reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
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)
Verified
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$0.89
steam price (US)

2 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 13:00 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

Quiet
  • · 2 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 12 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity down 20% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 15% of 27,751 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-31

Estimated sales: 42k–85k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 1,060 total reviews — how this is computed.

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

12-month high $5.99 · on sale 8 of 15 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
4420172026Week of 2017-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

602026-09-15 14:00 — 4 players2026-09-16 23:00 — 1 players2026-09-18 06:00 — 1 players2026-09-19 14:00 — 3 players2026-09-20 21:00 — 2 players2026-09-22 05:00 — 3 players2026-09-23 12:00 — 1 players2026-09-24 20:00 — 1 players2026-09-26 03:00 — 0 players2026-09-27 11:00 — 2 players2026-09-28 18:00 — 3 players2026-09-30 02:00 — 2 players2026-10-01 09:00 — 1 players2026-10-02 17:00 — 5 players2026-10-04 01:00 — 4 players2026-10-05 09:00 — 2 players2026-10-06 16:00 — 2 players2026-10-08 00:00 — 2 players2026-10-09 07:00 — 1 players2026-10-10 15:00 — 3 players2026-10-11 22:00 — 4 players2026-10-13 06:00 — 1 players2026-10-14 13:00 — 2 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
611Jul 2012Oct 2025Jul 2012 — avg 26 · peak 90Nov 2012 — avg 19 · peak 74Mar 2013 — avg 7 · peak 26Jul 2013 — avg 6 · peak 17Nov 2013 — avg 6 · peak 22Mar 2014 — avg 5 · peak 16Jul 2014 — avg 4 · peak 14Nov 2014 — avg 3 · peak 11Mar 2015 — avg 3 · peak 11Jul 2015 — avg 2 · peak 9Nov 2015 — avg 2 · peak 12Mar 2016 — avg 2 · peak 7Jul 2016 — avg 2 · peak 8Nov 2016 — avg 1 · peak 10Mar 2017 — avg 1 · peak 6Jul 2017 — avg 2 · peak 7Nov 2017 — avg 1 · peak 6Mar 2018 — avg 1 · peak 8Jul 2018 — avg 18 · peak 55Nov 2018 — avg 9 · peak 127Mar 2019 — avg 3 · peak 12Jul 2019 — avg 7 · peak 101Nov 2019 — avg 2 · peak 9Mar 2020 — avg 2 · peak 8Jul 2020 — avg 3 · peak 10Nov 2020 — avg 2 · peak 9Mar 2021 — avg 2 · peak 7Jul 2021 — avg 2 · peak 7Dec 2021 — avg 2 · peak 8Apr 2022 — avg 2 · peak 7Aug 2022 — avg 2 · peak 5Dec 2022 — avg 2 · peak 5May 2023 — avg 2 · peak 5Sep 2023 — avg 2 · peak 7Jan 2024 — avg 2 · peak 6Sep 2024 — avg 2 · peak 7Oct 2025 — avg 2 · peak 5
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

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

3382026-05-31 — 13 pageviews2026-06-04 — 11 pageviews2026-06-08 — 14 pageviews2026-06-12 — 11 pageviews2026-06-16 — 22 pageviews2026-06-20 — 10 pageviews2026-06-24 — 18 pageviews2026-06-28 — 16 pageviews2026-07-02 — 9 pageviews2026-07-06 — 16 pageviews2026-07-10 — 11 pageviews2026-07-14 — 20 pageviews2026-07-18 — 20 pageviews2026-07-22 — 12 pageviews2026-07-26 — 15 pageviews2026-07-30 — 14 pageviews2026-08-03 — 19 pageviews2026-08-07 — 10 pageviews2026-08-11 — 14 pageviews2026-08-15 — 10 pageviews2026-08-19 — 13 pageviews2026-08-23 — 13 pageviews2026-08-27 — 12 pageviews2026-08-31 — 15 pageviews2026-09-04 — 9 pageviews2026-09-08 — 21 pageviews2026-09-12 — 16 pageviews2026-09-16 — 18 pageviews2026-09-20 — 12 pageviews2026-09-24 — 22 pageviews2026-09-28 — 33 pageviews2026-10-02 — 19 pageviews2026-10-06 — 15 pageviews2026-10-10 — 18 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

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2012-05-24 (Steam store data)

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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