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Truxton cover art

Truxton

Bitwave Games · Clear River Games · 2023-02-14

SteamGOG

Action

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative

Releases: Jul 24, 1992 (TurboGrafx-16/PC Engine), Dec 09, 1989 (Sega Mega Drive/Genesis), Feb 01, 1989 (Arcade), Feb 14, 2023 (Mac), Feb 14, 2023 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Sep 20, 2019 (iOS)

The ruthless Gidans invite you to an explosive space scramble! Head into the mighty Super Fighter and disintegrate your foes in all directions with various upgradeable weapons. Toaplan's no-frills vertical shooter Truxton speeds onto PC with new features and quality-of-life updates!

94%
positive of 115 reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
69/100
IGDB user rating (12 ratings)
$4.79
steam price (US)
Truxton is a 1988 vertically scrolling shooter video game developed by Toaplan and published by Taito for Japanese and European arcades; in North America, it was distributed by Midway. It is set in a future where the Gidans alien race, led by Dogurava, have invaded the fictional planet Borogo. Players assume the role of fighter pilot Tatsuo taking control of the Super Fighter ship on a last-ditch effort to overthrow the alien invaders.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 19 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity up 90% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 63% of 12,170 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 2.3k–5.2k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 115 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $1.99 at GOG (2026-07-15)via IsThereAnyDeal

Review momentum

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Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Attention

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Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

50
achievements tracked
96.7%
earned "First Death"
17.4%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportGamepad RecommendedDualShock Controller SupportDualShock Controller SupportDualSense Controller SupportDualSense Controller SupportSteam Input API SupportSteam Cloud

1 supported languages: English

Player tags

2D1980sCo-opRetro1990'sActionArcadeCombatTop-DownController

Census log

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

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