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Treachery in Beatdown City

Treachery in Beatdown City

Explore an ANGRY city, meet the WORST people, and beat 'em up with STYLE! Pick your fighter, FREEZE TIME, build custom combos, and knock out your enemies, all to save the president.

Released Mar 30, 2020 Developer NuChallenger, HurakanWorks Publisher NuChallenger Platforms Windows · Mac Turn-Based TacticsTurn-Based CombatExplorationTactical RPGWrestling
View on Steam ↗ $1.99 (US · as of 2026-05-13)

What players say

Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-28.

79.3%positive87 reviews
Recommended · 0 found this helpful

“Treachery in Beatdown City takes the familiar concept of a retro street brawler and transforms it into something far more tactical than its pixel-art appearance initially suggests. Instead of relying on rapid button presses and straightforward combos, the game blends beat ’em up…”

— a player, Steam review · 14 hrs played
Not recommended · 0 found this helpful

“I do have one issue with this game. Games can have political commentary. Games can even have long winded cutscenes of political commentary. Games can be satirical. My issue is that I played the tutorial and spent more time listening to political preaching instead of getting to…”

— a player, Steam review · 0 hrs played
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Achievement stats

Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-09-28.

34achievements
4.2%median completion
0.5%rarest: Mind Ya Bidness
35.6% of players 28.5% of players 19.8% of players 15.4% of players 13.9% of players 13.9% of players 11.3% of players 10.5% of players 9.8% of players 8.8% of players 7.3% of players 6.6% of players 5.6% of players 5.0% of players 4.8% of players 4.5% of players 4.4% of players 4.2% of players 4.2% of players 4.1% of players 3.7% of players 3.5% of players 3.5% of players 3.2% of players 2.9% of players 2.6% of players 2.3% of players 2.2% of players 2.0% of players 1.9% of players 1.9% of players 1.8% of players 1.3% of players 0.5% of players 35.6% 0% most earned rarest
Almost everyone has
35.6%Bring Da Ruckus — Hit an enemy with a 6 hit combo
28.5%Now Walk it Out — Finish the Gym
19.8%Suplex a Train — Achieve "Professional" Grappler in a battle
Rarest badges of honor
0.5%Mind Ya Bidness — Hidden achievement
1.3%Knife Prty — Defeat 5 enemies with a thrown knife
1.8%Bring the Pain — Hidden achievement

Latest official news

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

Jun 26, 2025
Beatdown City Survivors Announced/Playable!

Hey Treachery in Beatdown City heads, I wanted to let y'all know that we're working on a semi-sequel to the game due out later this year, named Beatdown City Survivors, and there's a demo on Steam RIG

Nov 22, 2023
Nominate Treachery in Beatdown City for Labor of Love - Steam Awards 2023!

Hey y'all, Shawn here. As you probably know, we launched Treachery in Beatdown City straight into the pandemic! This was after 8 years of development post working at Rockstar Games, and it was 2 of us

Nov 16, 2023
Minor Update, but fixes some nagging and potentially BIG bugs.

Thanks everyone for reporting your issues! We've double and triple checked, so we hope they have been addressed in this patch. Cloud saves are fixed. We believe there was a conflict with when they wer

Nov 07, 2023
Treachery in Beatdown City: U.N. Trouble is OUT NOW!

Hey everyone, we have an Election Day gift for y'all - a free prequel (frequel?) starring The US President Blake Orama! https://store.steampowered.com/app/2578270/Treachery_in_Beatdown_City_UN_Trouble

Oct 04, 2023
Treachery in Beatdown City Ultra Remix is OUT NOW!

Hey y’all! The Treachery in Beatdown City Ultra Remix DLC is OUT! https://store.steampowered.com/app/2288590/Treachery_in_Beatdown_City_Ultra_Remix/ Thank you to everyone who has supported us so far.

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Screenshots

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Facts & details

From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-09-28.

GenresAction, Adventure, Indie, RPG, Strategy
Player tagsTurn-Based Tactics · Turn-Based Combat · Exploration · Tactical RPG · Wrestling · Strategy RPG · 2D Fighter · Martial Arts · Action RPG · Female Protagonist · Side Scroller · Beat 'em up (SteamSpy community voting)
FeaturesSingle-player · Full controller support · Gamepad Recommended · DualShock Controller Support · DualSense Controller Support · Family Sharing
LanguagesEnglish, French, German, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Spanish - Latin America
ControllerFull support
Achievements34
Official sitehttp://beatdowncity.com
Minimum system requirements (PC)

Minimum: OS *: Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8, Windows 10 Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo 1.8Ghz or equivalent Memory: 3 GB RAM Graphics: 512MB GPU, DirectX 9, Shader Model 2.0 (XNA 4.0 Reach Profile) Storage: 354 MB available space Additional Notes: Xinput devices supported