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Super Hydorah
Super Hydorah is a nonlinear horizontal shoot’ em up designed to offer a challenging experience, sublimating the richness of traditional shmup classics. Face the menace of the Meroptians aboard the Delta Lance, alone or with your friends in this game with direct action and nostalgic art.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-02 · quoted reviews as of 2026-05-15.
“Been in a shmup mood lately and realized I never wrote a review for this gem. It's a solid shooter throughout, with a decent level of challenge--while still being fair enough for a novice to learn--and plenty of stuff to shoot, with a variety of weapons to choose from. And of…”
— a player, Steam review · 7 hrs played“Fun retro styled SHMUP”
— a player, Steam review · 3 hrs played“Absolutely beautiful levels”
— a player, Steam review · 17 hrs playedAchievement stats
Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-09-26.
Price tracking
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Latest official news
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Original soundtrack now available!
Super Hydorah soundtrack contains all the works of the legendary composer Gryzor87 (Javier García) for this "shoot'em up", inspired by shoot’em up games of the 80s. This is a collection of 77 tracks ,
See the developer play Super Hydorah!
Watch us play Super Hydorah to celebrate the release of Super Hydorah Collector's Edition for Nintendo Switch! Let's fight those Meroptian hordes!
Super Hydorah for Steam Awards
There is no greater dedication than that of the developers, no greater love than that of the community. Vote Super Hydorah for the next Steam Awards 2021. Super Hydorah is a nonlinear horizontal shoot
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-15.
| Genres | Action, Indie |
| Player tags | Indie · Action · Shoot 'Em Up · Arcade · Retro · 2D · Difficult · Great Soundtrack · Local Multiplayer · Pixel Graphics · Co-op · Co-op Campaign (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Multi-player · PvP · Shared/Split Screen PvP · Co-op · Shared/Split Screen Co-op · Steam Achievements · Full controller support |
| Languages | English * , French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Russian, Turkish, Simplified Chinese * |
| Controller | Full support |
| Achievements | 21 |
| Official site | http://www.abylight.com/superhydorah/ |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS *: Windows Vista, 7, 8 o 10 Processor: 1GHz+ Memory: 512 MB RAM Graphics: 128 MB Storage: 175 MB available space