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Yars Rising

WayForward · Atari · 2024-09-09

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ActionAdventure

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Side view

Releases: Sep 10, 2024 (Nintendo Switch), Sep 10, 2024 (Xbox One), Sep 10, 2024 (PlayStation 4), Sep 10, 2024 (Xbox Series X|S), Sep 10, 2024 (PlayStation 5), Sep 10, 2024 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

From the renowned development studio WayForward Technologies, Inc. (Shantae, River City Girls, Advance Wars 1+2: Re-Boot Camp) comes Yars Rising, a 2D action adventure exploration of one of Atari’s richest, and best known classic titles.

82%
positive of 265 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
60/100
critic score (4 outlets, IGDB)
4.15★
PlayStation Store rating (162 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Verified
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$29.99
steam price (US)
Yars Rising is a 2024 action-adventure video game developed by WayForward and published by Atari, Inc. for home consoles and computers. It is part of the Yars series.

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 59 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~7/week).
  • · Review velocity up 59% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 26% of 27,602 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 5.3k–12k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 265 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

Humble Store$4.49-85%
lowest across shops (ITAD)$4.49-85%
Microsoft Store$29.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $4.49 at Humble Store (2026-08-13) · bundled 1×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $29.99 · on sale 35 of 60 observed days · at its all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
505020242026Week of 2024-09-01: 50 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-09-01: 2 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$29.99$4.492024-09-102026-10-142024-09-10 — best price $29.992024-11-01 — best price $29.992024-11-27 — best price $23.992024-12-12 — best price $23.992025-01-09 — best price $29.992025-02-13 — best price $20.992025-03-20 — best price $29.992025-04-09 — best price $29.992025-05-15 — best price $19.492025-05-28 — best price $29.992025-07-10 — best price $29.992025-07-31 — best price $29.992025-08-22 — best price $29.992025-09-22 — best price $16.492025-10-06 — best price $29.992025-10-20 — best price $16.492025-11-06 — best price $29.992025-12-04 — best price $29.992026-01-01 — best price $29.992026-01-15 — best price $14.992026-02-05 — best price $5.992026-02-23 — best price $29.992026-03-30 — best price $14.992026-04-13 — best price $29.992026-05-14 — best price $13.492026-05-29 — best price $13.492026-06-12 — best price $29.992026-07-13 — best price $8.992026-07-30 — best price $29.992026-08-16 — best price $4.492026-09-03 — best price $8.992026-09-20 — best price $10.492026-10-04 — best price $29.992026-10-09 — best price $8.992026-10-12 — best price $4.492026-10-14 — best price $4.49
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

96142026-07-16 — 28 pageviews2026-07-19 — 42 pageviews2026-07-22 — 26 pageviews2026-07-25 — 31 pageviews2026-07-28 — 38 pageviews2026-07-31 — 20 pageviews2026-08-03 — 24 pageviews2026-08-06 — 20 pageviews2026-08-09 — 24 pageviews2026-08-12 — 34 pageviews2026-08-15 — 29 pageviews2026-08-18 — 28 pageviews2026-08-21 — 20 pageviews2026-08-24 — 38 pageviews2026-08-27 — 34 pageviews2026-08-30 — 31 pageviews2026-09-02 — 26 pageviews2026-09-05 — 30 pageviews2026-09-08 — 26 pageviews2026-09-11 — 14 pageviews2026-09-14 — 31 pageviews2026-09-17 — 21 pageviews2026-09-20 — 26 pageviews2026-09-23 — 21 pageviews2026-09-26 — 20 pageviews2026-09-29 — 15 pageviews2026-10-02 — 20 pageviews2026-10-05 — 28 pageviews2026-10-08 — 35 pageviews2026-10-11 — 34 pageviews2026-10-13 — 20 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

33
achievements tracked
86.8%
earned "Hello, World!"
38.6%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam Trading CardsGamepad RecommendedDualShock Controller SupportDualShock Controller SupportDualSense Controller SupportDualSense Controller SupportSteam Cloud1 DLC

5 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2024-09-14 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)2972%33
PS5 (PlayStation)2349%34
Xbox Series, Xbox One (Xbox)1076%33
Switch (Nintendo)520%0
PS4 (PlayStation)1613%34

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

Player tags

2D2.5DCuteFunnyActionCyberpunkComic BookControllerPlatformerExploration

Census log

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

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