
Katanaut is a fast-paced, Metroidvania-inspired action roguelite blending fluid combat and cosmic horror. Slash, dodge, and wield powerful abilities as you battle through a station sprawling with twisted, once-human horrors. Adapt, survive, and descend into the shadows to uncover dark secrets.
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Every price cut of more than 20% we have observed, in each market that quoted one, with this game's chart position on either side of it. These are episodes, not a model: a sale is one event, and one event cannot tell you what the next one will do.
Reviews, worldwide (the counter carries no country): 0.75/day in the week to Aug 3 → 6.57/day in the week after.
For scale, across Steam · Top Sellers · Brazil over the last 30 days: the 25 chart moves that followed a price cut of more than 20% went a median of 10 places towards #1, and the 2,413 moves with no price cut behind them went 2 away. One store, one chart, one country — it is the only place we have enough observations to say even that.
Prices outside the United States have been collected since 6 August 2026 and chart positions since 19 July 2026, so a cut older than that has no market to compare and a market that joined later has no history yet. Nothing here is converted between currencies.
About
Katanaut is a fast-paced, Metroidvania-inspired action roguelite set aboard a massive space station falling into cosmic chaos. With the station slowly spiraling out of control, and its once-human inhabitants twisted into terrors, you’re the unlucky one tasked with uncovering what is going on... assuming you’re able to survive the station's violent halls with souls-like combat.
As Naut, you explore the corridors of this once vibrant station... or what's left of it. The deeper you descend into the station, the environments become more haunting, and the enemies less human.
Through advanced time-manipulation, you’re brought back to life whenever your bio-metrics are no longer detected. In the future where humans are able to download new abilities on demand, the station is now scattered with memory fragments from the fallen. Each one having the potential of being a lost skill or talent waiting to be unlocked.
Every run offers a new pivoted challenge with ever-changing pathways to explore, and pits you against hordes of enemies. Each ride down the station's elevators carries forward progress from the memory fragments you scavenge along your exploration.
In Katanaut, each clash of your blade echoes through the station's empty and flickering corridors, where every corner feels like is a surprise watching you... Whether you thrive in precision combat or prefer dealing with enemies from a safe distance, this is one cleanup job you won't forget.
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Sums Steam only; Xbox publishes no volume signal, so the true total is higher by an unknown amount.
| Store | Price | Audience | Score | Chart | Est. revenue |
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SteamYou are here | $8.99−50% | 550reviews | 90% | — | $195.8K |
| Free | 0ratings | 0% | — | not modelled |
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Reviews
Okay, so real talk, I almost refunded this in the first hour. Enemies die so fast at the start that the combat feels shallow, and I get why people with like 20 minutes played are leaving negative reviews. But that’s the thing. The game doesn’t show you what it actually is until you get your first win. After that, the enemy density ramps way up, and all that technical stuff in the combat that you never needed suddenly matters a lot. Also, yeah, it looks like Dead Cells, but it does not play like Dead Cells. It’s way faster, and the whole vibe is more like Dead Space body horror. Stick with it, seriously. I’m glad I didn’t quit.
Every time someone calls this a Dead Cells clone, I know they haven’t played anything else in the genre. Yes, the parry is easy against basic enemies. That’s on purpose. The game throws so many enemies at you at once that a strict parry window would just be miserable. The easy parry is why diving into a crowd feels so good. Bosses and elites are a whole different thing. They will absolutely wall you until you actually learn their moves, and then they get easy, which is how it should work. Also, if the screen is too busy for you, there are a bunch of accessibility settings, and they actually help. Use them. One guy made this game. Insane. 10/10.
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Languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese +2 more
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Hours played at review time, across 183 reviews with recorded playtime.
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Underrated little roguelike that really deserved better than it got. It felt a little too easy early-on, made me question why so many of the mechanics existed at all when you could just run and mash melee to win. With just a little progress, however, things start getting interesting. Move fast, hit hard, bounce around acrobatically. Alternate between guns, swords, and special abilities, with a good variety of weapon and skill choices, passives, meta-progression. Worth buying at full price. It even has a cool/interesting backstory and some legitimately atmospheric moments, though it plays it very mysterious with all of that stuff, and it can be ignored if you want.
Katanaut may a perfect game, but it does a lot of things right. Movement and combat feel fast and fun, the atmosphere, pixel graphic and setting are great. The story has me intrigued and I hope I can finally get into the higher difficulties and uncover more of it. Most importantly though, I was never really frustrated when I died, even if it was to the final boss of a run. I just wanted to jump into the next one. Katanaut became one of my Steam Deck comfort games to play while lying in bed with my cats, I got everything I hoped out of it and then some. I just really wish I wouldn't suck so much at playing it lol
Все говорят про Dead Cells или Dead Space, но я заметил, но я увидел! То чего я так долго ждал! Katana Zero 2!!! Механики один в один, только разнообразнее! Стилистика примерно такая же, только больше уклон в Dead Cells. В общем 10 шприцов хроноса их 10.
Cool roguelike with lots of different weapons, skills and perks. Progression starts off a bit slow but the pace picks up as you finish runs on higher difficulties. In my opinion the main blades could use a bit of rebalancing. Especially in the last warp run I feel like every weapon except the Voidthorn deals too little damage to reliably get through the run in time. Overall I liked the game a lot
Fun Game, Solo Dev ... Just blows my mind how one person can make such a great game! Keep up the great work Dev!
Начиная со сложности варп 3 в игре появляется обязательный таймер, и игра из весёлой превращается в душную.
Тут есть кот. Его можно ГЛАДИТЬ)
Temu version of dead cells
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