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Windowkill cover art

Windowkill

torcado · 2024-02-23

Steam

ActionIndie

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative, Split screen · Perspectives: Bird view / Isometric

Releases: Oct 02, 2023 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Feb 23, 2024 (Linux)

Windowkill is a twin-stick shooter, but the game window itself is constantly closing in on you. Shoot the window edges to push it around your screen as you fight and dodge enemies and bosses in their own windows.

Windowkill is an Action and Indie game released in 2024, priced at $4.99, with an estimated 200,000 .. 500,000 owners and an Overwhelmingly Positive review sentiment (96% of 3722 reviews).

8
playing now
96%
positive of 3.7k reviews
Overwhelmingly Positive
steam's rating (official)
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Verified
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$4.99
steam price (US)

8 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 13:00 UTC (census sample)

Trailer

Windowkill trailer thumbnail

WindowKill Trailer (PC Game)

≈5,642 YouTube results for this game's trailer search

Health check

Healthy
  • · 8 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 375 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~47/week).
  • · Review velocity down 16% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 8% of 27,727 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-27

Estimated sales: 75k–168k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 3,737 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $3.24 at Steam (2026-06-25) · bundled 3×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $4.99 · on sale 4 of 8 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
47147120242026Week of 2024-02-01: 471 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 358 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 196 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 152 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 157 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 197 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 91 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 120 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 69 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 275 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 171 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 235 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 20 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 88 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 82 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 58 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 54 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 48 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 64 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 47 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 52 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 53 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 43 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 49 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 59 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 42 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 45 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 36 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 32 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 43 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 51 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 2 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

1512026-09-15 14:00 — 10 players2026-09-16 22:00 — 11 players2026-09-18 05:00 — 6 players2026-09-19 13:00 — 4 players2026-09-20 20:00 — 15 players2026-09-22 04:00 — 1 players2026-09-23 12:00 — 5 players2026-09-24 19:00 — 8 players2026-09-26 03:00 — 12 players2026-09-27 10:00 — 6 players2026-09-28 18:00 — 7 players2026-09-30 01:00 — 10 players2026-10-01 09:00 — 6 players2026-10-02 16:00 — 9 players2026-10-04 00:00 — 8 players2026-10-05 08:00 — 13 players2026-10-06 15:00 — 15 players2026-10-07 23:00 — 13 players2026-10-09 06:00 — 8 players2026-10-10 14:00 — 12 players2026-10-11 22:00 — 7 players2026-10-13 05:00 — 5 players2026-10-14 13:00 — 8 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
588Mar 2024Aug 2026Mar 2024 — avg 58 · peak 183Apr 2024 — avg 36 · peak 150May 2024 — avg 31 · peak 102Jun 2024 — avg 29 · peak 112Jul 2024 — avg 37 · peak 91Aug 2024 — avg 17 · peak 43Sep 2024 — avg 31 · peak 162Oct 2024 — avg 20 · peak 46Nov 2024 — avg 17 · peak 42Dec 2024 — avg 25 · peak 70Jan 2025 — avg 50 · peak 281Feb 2025 — avg 23 · peak 60Mar 2025 — avg 20 · peak 48Apr 2025 — avg 14 · peak 141May 2025 — avg 15 · peak 36Jun 2025 — avg 16 · peak 41Jul 2025 — avg 17 · peak 42Aug 2025 — avg 12 · peak 27Sep 2025 — avg 11 · peak 24Oct 2025 — avg 13 · peak 31Nov 2025 — avg 11 · peak 29Dec 2025 — avg 17 · peak 48Jan 2026 — avg 16 · peak 34Feb 2026 — avg 12 · peak 27Mar 2026 — avg 11 · peak 27Apr 2026 — avg 10 · peak 23May 2026 — avg 9 · peak 25Jun 2026 — avg 13 · peak 35Jul 2026 — avg 10 · peak 24Aug 2026 — avg 8 · peak 21
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$4.99$3.242024-02-232026-07-092024-02-23 — best price $4.492024-03-01 — best price $4.992024-04-06 — best price $3.992024-04-07 — best price $4.992024-06-27 — best price $3.742024-07-11 — best price $4.992024-11-27 — best price $3.992024-12-04 — best price $4.992024-12-19 — best price $3.742025-01-02 — best price $4.992025-01-04 — best price $3.492025-01-18 — best price $4.992025-03-13 — best price $3.992025-03-20 — best price $4.992025-06-27 — best price $3.492025-07-10 — best price $4.992025-09-29 — best price $3.742025-10-06 — best price $4.992025-12-18 — best price $3.492026-01-05 — best price $4.992026-03-19 — best price $3.742026-03-26 — best price $4.992026-06-08 — best price $3.342026-06-15 — best price $4.992026-06-25 — best price $3.242026-07-09 — best price $4.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

37
achievements tracked
54.3%
earned "background: cells"
11.2%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsLinuxFull controller supportSingle-playerMulti-playerCo-opShared/Split Screen Co-opShared/Split ScreenSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam Trading CardsSteam WorkshopDualShock Controller Support1 DLC

28 supported languages: English, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Dutch, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil…

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2024-03-20 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)2,1183%37

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

Where its players are

Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.

Player tags

2DCo-opIndieActionArcadeModdableMinimalistRogue-liteBullet HellPerma Death

Census log

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

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