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Twin Cobra cover art

Twin Cobra

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

SteamGOG

Action

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative

Releases: 1994 (FM Towns), 1989 (TurboGrafx-16/PC Engine), Oct 01, 1987 (Arcade), Jan 15, 1993 (Sharp X68000), Feb 14, 2023 (Mac), Feb 14, 2023 (Linux)

Blast battalions of tanks into smoking craters and conquer air and sea from the sky's fastest attack chopper! Toaplan's coin-op shooter Twin Cobra flies to PC with fresh features and quality-of-life updates!

87%
positive of 60 reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
76/100
IGDB user rating (7 ratings)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$7.99
steam price (US)
Twin Cobra, known as Kyukyoku Tiger in Japan, is a vertically scrolling shooter developed by Toaplan and released for arcades in 1987 by Taito in Japan and Europe, then in North America by Romstar. It is a sequel to the 1985 arcade game Tiger-Heli. Controlling the titular attack helicopter, the players must fight endless waves of military vehicles while avoiding collision with their projectiles and other obstacles. It was the fourth shoot 'em up game from Toaplan, and their tenth video game overall. It was ported to multiple platforms, with each done by different third-party developers that made several changes or additions.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 11 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity up 10% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 72% of 12,170 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 1.2k–2.7k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 60 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

lowest across shops (ITAD)$4.79-40%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $3.99 at GOG (2025-11-25)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $7.99 · on sale 20 of 42 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
121220232026Week of 2023-02-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$7.99$3.992023-02-142026-08-252023-02-14 — best price $7.992023-08-21 — best price $6.392023-10-02 — best price $7.992023-12-06 — best price $7.992024-01-04 — best price $7.992024-01-24 — best price $7.992024-02-12 — best price $6.392024-02-29 — best price $7.992024-03-21 — best price $7.992024-04-30 — best price $5.992024-06-19 — best price $5.192024-08-02 — best price $5.992024-10-08 — best price $7.992024-10-28 — best price $5.592024-11-26 — best price $5.592024-12-12 — best price $7.992025-02-10 — best price $5.592025-03-01 — best price $7.992025-04-28 — best price $5.592025-07-10 — best price $7.992025-08-26 — best price $4.792025-09-11 — best price $7.992025-10-21 — best price $4.392025-12-03 — best price $7.992026-01-05 — best price $7.992026-01-21 — best price $7.992026-02-12 — best price $7.992026-03-19 — best price $4.792026-04-07 — best price $4.792026-04-22 — best price $7.992026-05-25 — best price $4.792026-06-08 — best price $4.792026-06-17 — best price $4.792026-07-15 — best price $4.792026-08-16 — best price $7.992026-08-25 — best price $4.79
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

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

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxFull controller supportSingle-playerMulti-playerCo-opShared/Split Screen Co-opShared/Split ScreenSteam AchievementsFull controller supportGamepad RecommendedDualShock Controller SupportDualShock Controller Support

1 supported languages: English

Player tags

2D1980sRetro1990'sActionArcadeCombatMilitaryTop-DownController

Census log

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

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