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Yar's Revenge cover art

Yar's Revenge

Killspace Entertainment · Atari · 2011-04-28

SteamXbox

Action

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer · Perspectives: Third person

Releases: Apr 12, 2011 (Xbox 360), Apr 28, 2011 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Take flight as you explore exotic alien worlds and seek to avenge your fallen race

66%
positive of 88 reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
45/100
critic score (1 outlets, IGDB)
50/100
IGDB user rating (2 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$9.99
steam price (US)
Yar's Revenge is a rail shooter video game developed by Killspace Entertainment and published by Atari. It is a reboot of Yars' Revenge, the original Atari's 1982 shooter for the Atari 2600. It was released for the Xbox 360 through Xbox Live Arcade and Windows in April 2011. The game reinterprets the original's setting and characters, adopting anime graphics and making the formerly insectoid Yar species into four-armed humanoid aliens. A nameless Yar girl is brainwashed by the Qotile evil empire, but after she is shot down and rescued, she seeks revenge on her former master. The game received mixed reviews from critics, who praised its graphics, but criticized its gameplay, sound, and lack of voice acting or online multiplayer functionality, calling it difficult to recommend even at its relatively low price point.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 7 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 30% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 48% of 21,169 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 3.5k–7.0k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 88 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.71 at Dreamgame (2020-01-24)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $9.99 · on sale 27 of 56 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
3320112026Week of 2011-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2011-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2011-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2012-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2012-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2012-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2012-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2013-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2014-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2014-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2014-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2015-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 2 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$12.00$0.752015-01-012026-09-102015-01-01 — best price $3.492015-04-23 — best price $12.002015-07-24 — best price $6.082016-01-13 — best price $2.492016-05-06 — best price $11.522016-08-30 — best price $9.992017-01-16 — best price $2.492017-07-23 — best price $5.002017-11-01 — best price $9.992018-01-04 — best price $8.392018-06-21 — best price $2.492018-11-29 — best price $9.992019-07-09 — best price $9.992019-11-14 — best price $9.992020-02-01 — best price $8.492020-04-20 — best price $0.752020-06-12 — best price $9.992020-07-16 — best price $9.992020-08-28 — best price $9.992020-09-25 — best price $8.892020-10-27 — best price $9.992020-11-26 — best price $7.342020-12-28 — best price $9.992021-01-27 — best price $8.382021-02-27 — best price $9.992021-04-11 — best price $8.382021-05-17 — best price $8.382021-07-09 — best price $8.292021-12-22 — best price $4.992022-04-01 — best price $8.382022-07-14 — best price $3.992023-01-18 — best price $10.762023-08-14 — best price $3.992024-03-21 — best price $9.992024-10-28 — best price $9.992025-03-20 — best price $9.992025-09-28 — best price $9.992026-01-29 — best price $9.992026-06-06 — best price $9.992026-09-10 — best price $9.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

8862026-07-01 — 18 pageviews2026-07-04 — 17 pageviews2026-07-07 — 14 pageviews2026-07-10 — 24 pageviews2026-07-13 — 11 pageviews2026-07-16 — 11 pageviews2026-07-19 — 14 pageviews2026-07-22 — 20 pageviews2026-07-25 — 28 pageviews2026-07-28 — 31 pageviews2026-07-31 — 15 pageviews2026-08-03 — 13 pageviews2026-08-06 — 12 pageviews2026-08-09 — 18 pageviews2026-08-12 — 16 pageviews2026-08-15 — 15 pageviews2026-08-18 — 16 pageviews2026-08-21 — 15 pageviews2026-08-24 — 20 pageviews2026-08-27 — 19 pageviews2026-08-30 — 10 pageviews2026-09-02 — 10 pageviews2026-09-05 — 13 pageviews2026-09-08 — 14 pageviews2026-09-11 — 10 pageviews2026-09-14 — 18 pageviews2026-09-17 — 10 pageviews2026-09-20 — 9 pageviews2026-09-23 — 8 pageviews2026-09-26 — 14 pageviews2026-09-27 — 22 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerMulti-playerShared/Split ScreenSteam AchievementsPartial Controller SupportRemote Play TogetherFamily Sharing

3 supported languages: English, French, German

Player tags

ActionShooterOn-Rails ShooterFemale Protagonist

Census log

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

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