“TWINKLE STAR SPRITES ”, a competitive 2D top-down view scrolling shooter released on NEOGEO MVS in 1996, departs for new adventures on the Steam gaming platform!Master your shots, and aim for the magical Twinkle Star”!
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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): 0.14/day in the week to Jul 30 → 0.14/day in the week after.
For scale, across Steam · Top Sellers · Brazil over the last 30 days: the 26 chart moves that followed a price cut of more than 20% went a median of 7 places towards #1, and the 2,400 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.
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“TWINKLE STAR SPRITES ”, a competitive 2D top-down view scrolling shooter released on NEOGEO MVS in 1996, departs for new adventures on the Steam gaming platform!
Master your shots, and aim for the magical Twinkle Star”!
・ARCADE:
Pick up your favorite character among the 9 cute characters available in “CHARACTER MODE”, and play until you clear the game. Choose “STORY MODE”, and accompany “Lord Ran” in her adventures in search of the lost “Twinkle Star”.
Play locally in “VERSUS MODE” with a friend for intense and epic shooting battles!
・MULTIPLAYER:
Connect to Steam, and use the “INVITE A FRIEND” and “LOBBY” features to play against a buddy or challenge the best players worldwide!
・LEADERBOARDS:
Check your current rank & score in “TWINKLE STAR SPRITES” at any time, as well as those of your friends and other top shooters!
・SETTINGS:
Configure your language, video, and sound volume settings to your preference for the most pleasant “TWINKLE STAR SPRITES” experience ever.
** WILL NOT RUN ON Windows XP **
Genres
Sums Steam only; GOG, App Store publish no volume signal, so the true total is higher by an unknown amount.
Engagement
Reviews
Themes across 44 recent reviews and how positive each mention is. A keyword signal, not full sentiment analysis.
Reviews
TWINKLE STAR SPRITES Nota: 5/10 Jogo divertido até solo, é meio fraco, mas vale a pena em uma promoção.
Very cute. I approve (๑ ˃̵ᴗ˂̵)و ♡ Lots of fun and looks great!
This game has always been one of the GOATs. The characters are absurd and cute. The voices are exactly what you would expect. The music resonates inside one's cranium for decades, but it also has its very rocking moments. The port on Steam, though, is very VERY barebones. I happen to have the Dreamcast version of this and it is very similar to this port - and back in the days of the Dreamcast, I would have said the same: How come the Saturn version has far much more than any other? Now, I know this game was re-released 10 years ago, but even in the year of our lord 2016, it was rather unwholesome for this to not have AT LEAST the amount of contents that the Saturn version had. Neutral recommendation.
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Languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain
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Matched by title — a reused name can pair the wrong games. * is a critic aggregate. Prices and positions are each store's United States storefront; Epic charts worldwide. Audience and Score too, except Steam's, which is worldwide.
Hours played at review time, across 44 reviews with recorded playtime.
positive critical· bar length = how often the theme comes up
Highly Recommended 9/10* I don't give it a 10 just because it doesn't support gamepad natively, but steam input get the works done, there are already community inputs. Its the same game from 1996, and i love it, gorgeous looking pixel art, lovely character designs, amazing voice acting, and addictive gameplay, its a 1v1 shoot em up, each one on one side, the more combos you make destroying enemies, the more your opponent gets attacked. Great classic, cant complain at all.
I had seen the game in Japanese arcades before but never played it until now. It's a pretty niche title and looks like it was released in the '90s. Gameplay-wise, it's kind of like Puyo Puyo in the way you try to sabotage your opponent, but it's actually a shmup rather than a match-3 game. Like Metal Slug, it's probably a lot more fun with a friend. Really cool arcade game, especially for just €1 during a sale!
Un shoot’em up versus aussi fun que chaotique. Le concept d’envoyer ses attaques dans le camp adverse marche super bien, et les parties deviennent vite nerveuses. Simple, coloré, addictif. Parfait pour des sessions rapides.
首先，作为一个弹幕射击对战游戏，这货任何现阶段的作品都打不过，你别跟我说这个在Steam上发行于2016年，还是SNK发行的，也别跟我说这款游戏原本发行日期是1996年，2016年发行在Steam上的1996年的游戏，竟然没有任何重置，就套了个模拟器，就发上去了。我谢谢你！首先键位设置，我想问你学谁？上下左右方向键移动，这个都还行，你告诉我什么是SHIFT发射子弹，CTRL炸Bomb？生怕玩家按不出那个该死的粘滞键窗口是吧？还是当玩家都是Linux系统，用Proton运行你这个该死的游戏？还是默认玩家都会关闭那个粘滞键窗口？还好有键位设置让我设置成了Z键发射子弹、X键炸Bomb，和东方一致。 然后，2016年发行在Steam上的1996年的游戏，用的还是1996年的画风就算了，输入延迟、连不上手柄也就算了，结果连个网络对战都没有！要知道《东方花映塚》这个2005年的老东西，都做了网络对战的补丁，虽然做的不好，但是没做和做就是0和1的区别，你是SNK啊，你是一个公司，你比不过ZUN这个独立的个人？ 然后我玩了半天，全程我就在想：我是怎么没的，对面是怎么没的，我怎么就没了，我怎么就赢了……我玩任何STG我都知道我是被弹幕砸没的，玩你这个请问我是怎么没的？连个判定点都不显示！玩什么？ 还有，一旦屏幕上面的东西一多一复杂，那就直接掉帧减慢速度，大哥……我这台电脑难道这么烂吗？R7-6800H + RTX 3060难道这么烂吗？玩花映塚的时候，Lunatic难度两个AI在一起打开花都没有一点掉帧，好，花映塚这个2005年的东西确实不会掉帧，来，兽王园这个2023年的东西呢？我玩这个，同样是Lunatic难度，960 x 640的分辨率，两个AI打到屏幕上全是弹幕都没有一点掉帧！玩你这东西，能掉帧减慢速度？故意的？然后每次进游戏都得卡一下，我也是醉了。 然后你这一坨东西卖31块钱？拜托，再加20块钱就能玩花映塚了！再加27块钱就能玩兽王园了！你这是在干什么啊我的天哪！
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A very fun and unique game. But the emulation is not optimal. And the bootup menu feels very laggy for no good reason. It's functional enough to be recommended as a multiplayer game. But if you have the knowhow you should probably just stick with fightcade.
Would be fun if the stuttering wasn't so bad. It also speeds up seemingly at random, leading to a lot of frustrating moments. Fightcade is free and superior to this.
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