SHOCK TROOPERS
Skip · Shooter · 2016
The verdict
WAIT.
It has sold at a fair price before.
Today
$7.99Skip
On its price record
$3.58Fair
- Length
- 0.7h 4.2h to 100%
- Value
- $11.41/hr
- Reviews
- 83% of 288 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $3.58 or less.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in 5 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
About the game
“SHOCK TROOPERS ”, the fan favorite 2D top-down view action shooting game released exclusively on NEOGEO MVS in 1997, returns to the battlefield on Steam!Progress through the battlefield, choosing the best routes and strategy!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, Intel HD Graphics, 502 MB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
Across all 52 discounts in the 10 years tracked, the median cut is 50 percent, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
It is cheaper than 65 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, METAL SLUG 3 ($7.99, scores 64) beats it on value, while it beats Contra Anniversary Collection ($19.99, scores 34).
More about SHOCK TROOPERS
Steam's global achievement data puts 26 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. Inside the two-hour refund window, 84 percent of the 116 reviews written there were positive, against 83 percent overall, and those are 60 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 0.7 hours. Doing everything runs 4, 6.0 times as long.
The drop-off
43% start to 26% finishSteam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements
Players
- Players online
- 2 when we last checked, on Oct 6, 15:54 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Quite simply, the perfect arcade game. Brilliant graphics, rock-solid gameplay, and addictive sound effects and music... While it is true that Metal Slug spawned more sequels and garnered greater acclaim, for me, Shock Troopers always stood a cut above. I spent a large part of my teenage years at the controls of this machine.
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Does it work? yes. how is it comparable with the original neogeo? this port does indeed feel like a downgrade graphical version of the arcade. i emulated the neogeo arcade version of this game on my rg35xx plus and the explosion colors pop out much more on their than it does here. I mean there was no frame drop or anything playing it here but when comparing it to the neogeo yes theres a graphical difference of...
Somehow clunky controlls and very short, I finished the game in less than an hour. Way too expensive for that. If you still want the game, get it when on sale with 85% discount like I did.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
SHOCK TROOPERS scores 40/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/366270/shock-troopersReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.