DemonStar
Short description
The shareware legend DemonStar comes soaring back with new game modes and revised gameplay. Originally published in 1997, DemonStar has earned the Computer Gaming World's "Shareware Game of the Year 1999" award..
- Developer
- Scott Host
- Publisher
- Scott Host
- Release
- Mon, Dec 11, 2023
- Price
- $2.99
- Reviews
- 245
- Positive
- 94%
- Followers
- n/a
- Owners (estimated)
- 0 – 20K
- Concurrent players
- n/a
- Genres
- Action, Indie
- Features
- Multi-player, Co-op, Shared/Split Screen Co-op, Shared/Split Screen, Full controller support, Remote Play Together
- Tags
Review count and SteamSpy's owner range agree well enough to narrow the estimate down to this band. Multiplied by $2.97, the average price these copies actually sold for — weighted from the price history rather than taken from the $2.99 launch price. That is 1% below list price on average. Before Steam's cut, VAT and refunds. How these numbers are calculated.
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Media
History
2 data points since Aug 1, 2026. Gaps mean nothing changed — the value carries forward.
The revenue curve is an estimate, not a measurement. It is the only calculated series here: each interval takes the review growth of that period, multiplies it by the sales-per-review factor and by the price actually charged at the time, and adds the result to the running total. That is why it climbs more slowly through discount periods than the review curve next to it. The last point is the same figure quoted above — gross, before Steam's cut, VAT and refunds. How these numbers are calculated.
The blurred area is the rest of the history. 46 further data points reach back to Dec 1, 2023 — your plan shows the last 90 days of it. How far each series in particular reaches is written on its own chart; not every one of them goes back that far. The shape in the blurred area is decoration, not data: the figures are not in this page at all. Plus unlocks the complete series.
Lowest recorded price: $0.49 on Mar 19, 2026.
Similar games that found an audience
Games sharing at least 3 of this title's leading tags, with enough reviews to have gone somewhere. Ranked by how much they overlap, not by how big they are. − missing and + extra mark the tags each one does not share with DemonStar. Studio counts the titles that developer has released — the closest thing to production scale that public data allows. It is not a budget, and nobody publishes those.
| Image | Name | Studio | Shared | Tag difference | Price | Reviews | Positive | Released | Revenue (estimated) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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东方栖霞园 ~ Blue devil in the Belvedere. | 东方祈华梦制作组 2 titles | 5 | − Flight + Top-Down Shooter | $9.99 | 299 | 93% | Fri, May 21, 2021 | $200k $200k – $239k |
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Raptor: Call of The Shadows - 2015 Edition | Scott Host 4 titles | 4 | − Action − Shooter + Shoot 'Em Up + Difficult | $2.99 | 498 | 76% | Fri, Feb 13, 2015 | $63k $28k – $566k |
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Gunvein | NGDEV first game | 4 | − Flight − Top-Down + Shoot 'Em Up + Arcade | $17.99 | 214 | 97% | Fri, Nov 11, 2022 | $171k $76k – $304k |
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Frequent Flyer | Coldwild Games 14 titles +2 | 4 | − Shooter − Top-Down + Indie + Casual | $0.99 | 110 | 88% | Fri, Jan 20, 2017 | $4k $2k – $45k |
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東方资志疏 ~ Immortal Immanuel. | 雾雨威Channel 3 titles +1 | 4 | − Flight − Top-Down + Shoot 'Em Up + Indie | $9.99 | 103 | 94% | Thu, Jan 16, 2025 | $46k $21k – $82k |
There are more like this. Your plan shows the 5 closest neighbours; Plus and Pro show up to 100 — enough to see the shape of a niche instead of a sample of it.