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Showgunners

Showgunners

As a contestant on a high stakes reality game show of the future, you must survive a dangerous urban environment packed with traps, confounding puzzles, and heavily armed psychopaths. Turn-based combat in hand crafted levels, built for entertainment.

Released May 2, 2023 Developer Artificer Publisher Good Shepherd Entertainment Platforms Windows Turn-Based TacticsTurn-Based CombatTurn-Based StrategyTacticalAction
View on Steam ↗ $29.99 (US · as of 2026-07-26)

What players say

Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Data as of 2026-05-20.

93.9%positive1,570 reviews
Recommended · 8 found this helpful

“I came for a dose of "This will tide me over to the X-com 3 announcecment" copium. I stayed for excellent tactical combat with a dash of puzzle solving and a dystopian setting.”

— a player, Steam review · 27 hrs played
Recommended · 6 found this helpful

“This is probably the closest we're ever going to get to Dungeon Crawler Carl the game, but a lots here - tactical combat, explosives, sarcastic announcers, annoying fans, weapons painted lurid colours and lots of traps! The combat arenas are small and tight - good for a quick…”

— a player, Steam review · 9 hrs played
Recommended · 6 found this helpful

“If you loved and are familiar with the combat aspect of games like XCOM 2, ShowGunners has next to no learning curve. It feels like a direct clone, in a great way. This game has a lot of great things going for it: +Colorful, fun art style +Engaging, squad based, tactical,…”

— a player, Steam review · 27 hrs played
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Player activity

Monthly average concurrent players. Live count fetched 2026-07-11 13:21 UTC · history via SteamCharts.

21playing at last check
1924-hour peak
530all-time peak
0 100 200 2024 2025 2026 129 avg · May 2023

Achievement stats

Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-07-25.

54achievements
32.1%median completion
4.7%rarest: Deadly Lure
86.4% of players 78.1% of players 70.4% of players 63.5% of players 56.5% of players 56.4% of players 49.3% of players 47.7% of players 46.3% of players 44.4% of players 42.6% of players 40.1% of players 39.6% of players 39.4% of players 39.1% of players 38.1% of players 37.6% of players 35.8% of players 35.6% of players 35.2% of players 34.7% of players 34.2% of players 33.7% of players 33.6% of players 32.7% of players 32.4% of players 32.1% of players 32.1% of players 30.8% of players 30.2% of players 28.7% of players 28.2% of players 28.1% of players 27.9% of players 27.9% of players 27.6% of players 25.8% of players 25.0% of players 22.4% of players 22.4% of players 22.2% of players 18.9% of players 18.8% of players 18.4% of players 16.6% of players 16.6% of players 16.5% of players 16.0% of players 15.5% of players 13.5% of players 11.5% of players 7.0% of players 6.5% of players 4.7% of players 86.4% 0% most earned rarest
Almost everyone has
86.4%Season Premiere — Complete the Season Premiere episode.
78.1%Now It's Official! — Sign your first sponsorship contract.
70.4%Group Kill — Eliminate 2 or more enemies with one Area of Effect attack.
Rarest badges of honor
4.7%Deadly Lure — Get an enemy killed by luring them onto a proximity grenade or a burning tile.
6.5%Laser Precision — Let a Defender get obliterated by lasers in the Decontamination Zone.
7.0%Legend — Beat the game on Hard difficulty.

Price tracking

US-region pricing (USD), sampled twice daily by our own tracker since 2026-07-11. Steam prices vary by region — always confirm your local price on Steam.

$29.99current · sampled 2026-07-26 08:39 UTC
$29.99lowest since tracking began2026-07-11
US29.99 USD
EU28.99 EUR
UK24.99 GBP
Australia43.95 AUD
Canada38.99 CAD
Japan3,400 JPY
Brazil88.99 BRL
China108.00 CNY

Regional prices at last sample, in local currency — Steam sets each region's price independently.

China≈$16 Brazil Japan Canada US Australia EU UK≈$33

Cheapest → most expensive, converted to USD at ECB reference rates (2026-07-24). Relative comparison only.

$0 $25 $50 07-11 07-14 07-17 07-20 07-23 07-26

Latest official news

Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.

Apr 10, 2026
MINOS - Artificer's new maze-building ROGUELITE Available Now!

Dear Gamer,I wasn't quite sure what to write here; if you've played the MINOS demo, I'd be preaching to the choir; you're probably already sold on the game.Part of the reason the game is so lovable is

Jun 21, 2024
Sumerian Six - our new RTT game!

Greetings contestants, We're thrilled to let you know that a demo of our upcoming real-time tactics game, Sumerian Six, is available on Steam now! https://store.steampowered.com/app/1429850/Sumerian_S

Nov 30, 2023
Showgunners is verified on deck

Breaking news: “Showgunners” is officially verified for the Steam Deck! You can now experience our turn-based brutal reality game show of the future on this portable gaming PC, bringing the action and

Nov 21, 2023
Showgunners x Steam Awards

Another year, another season of The Steam Awards. 2023 was to games what 1999 was to films: very good. There is just *so* much to love about the titles released this year, which is why we are deeply h

Oct 31, 2023
SteamDeck issues

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Screenshots

Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.

Facts & details

From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-20.

Player tagsTurn-Based Tactics · Turn-Based Combat · Turn-Based Strategy · Tactical · Action · Sci-fi · Strategy · Isometric · Top-Down · Singleplayer · Dystopian · 1990's (SteamSpy community voting)
FeaturesSingle-player · Steam Achievements · Full controller support · Steam Cloud · Family Sharing
LanguagesEnglish * , French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Ukrainian *
ControllerFull support
Achievements54
Estimated owners100,000 – 200,000 (SteamSpy)
Official sitehttps://www.showgunners.com
Minimum system requirements (PC)

Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS: Windows 10 64-bit Processor: Intel Core i5-7400 / AMD Ryzen 5 1600 Memory: 8 GB RAM Graphics: GeForce GTX 960 4 GB / Radeon RX 570 4 GB