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Venture Kid cover art

Venture Kid

Snikkabo AS · FDG Entertainment · 2018-05-03

Steam

ActionIndie

Modes: Single player

Releases: May 02, 2019 (Nintendo Switch), May 03, 2018 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Jan 13, 2016 (iOS)

A 8-bit retro action platformer that goes beyond just pixels and chiptunes

0
playing now
84%
positive of 230 reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
0/100
critic score (0 outlets, IGDB)
97/100
IGDB user rating (3 ratings)
bronze
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$9.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 10:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 57% of 10,862 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 5.8k–14k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 230 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.99 at Steam (2020-06-25)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $9.99 · on sale 9 of 18 observed days (census price snapshots)

Players online

102026-08-11 21:00 — 0 players2026-08-12 12:00 — 0 players2026-08-13 04:00 — 0 players2026-08-13 20:00 — 0 players2026-08-14 12:00 — 0 players2026-08-15 04:00 — 0 players2026-08-15 19:00 — 1 players2026-08-16 11:00 — 0 players2026-08-17 03:00 — 0 players2026-08-17 19:00 — 0 players2026-08-18 11:00 — 0 players2026-08-19 03:00 — 0 players2026-08-19 18:00 — 0 players2026-08-20 10:00 — 1 players2026-08-21 02:00 — 0 players2026-08-21 18:00 — 0 players2026-08-22 09:00 — 0 players2026-08-23 01:00 — 0 players2026-08-23 17:00 — 0 players2026-08-24 09:00 — 0 players2026-08-25 01:00 — 0 players2026-08-25 17:00 — 0 players2026-08-26 09:00 — 0 players2026-08-27 01:00 — 0 players2026-08-27 17:00 — 0 players2026-08-28 09:00 — 0 players2026-08-29 02:00 — 0 players2026-08-29 18:00 — 0 players2026-08-30 10:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$9.99$0.992018-05-032026-08-032018-05-03 — best price $9.992020-01-02 — best price $9.992020-02-11 — best price $9.992020-06-04 — best price $9.992020-07-30 — best price $9.992020-11-02 — best price $9.992020-12-18 — best price $9.992021-02-05 — best price $9.992021-04-02 — best price $9.992021-07-08 — best price $9.992021-09-22 — best price $9.992021-12-01 — best price $9.992022-02-10 — best price $9.992022-06-14 — best price $9.992022-08-23 — best price $9.992022-11-15 — best price $9.992023-01-05 — best price $9.992023-03-23 — best price $9.992023-06-01 — best price $9.992023-08-11 — best price $9.992023-11-28 — best price $9.992024-01-30 — best price $9.992024-03-21 — best price $9.992024-07-11 — best price $9.992024-09-12 — best price $9.992024-12-04 — best price $9.992025-01-21 — best price $9.992025-03-20 — best price $9.992025-06-11 — best price $9.992025-08-19 — best price $9.992025-11-04 — best price $9.992026-01-23 — best price $9.992026-03-26 — best price $9.992026-07-09 — best price $9.992026-08-03 — best price $9.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam Trading CardsDualShock Controller SupportDualShock Controller SupportPartial Controller SupportSteam CloudFamily Sharing

12 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Turkish

Player tags

2DIndieRetroActionDifficultPlatformerSingleplayerPixel Graphics

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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