Sakura Stars
Short description
When hordes of Youkai threaten the world, the Tanukis send a messenger to choose human girls to receive magical powers to defend humanity. They are known as SAKURA STARS. This is a horizontal shmup made on Pico-8, a retro fantasy console with purposeful limitations to simulate an 8-bit era console.
- Developer
- Super16bits
- Publisher
- Super16bits
- Release
- Thu, May 21, 2020
- Price
- $3.99
- Reviews
- 4
- Positive
- 100%
- Followers
- 74
- Owners (estimated)
- 0 – 20K
- Concurrent players
- n/a
- Genres
- Action, Indie
- Features
- Partial Controller Support
- Tags
Review count and SteamSpy's owner range agree well enough to narrow the estimate down to this band. Multiplied by the $3.99 launch price — there is not enough price history for this game to weight the copies by what they actually sold for. Before Steam's cut, VAT and refunds. How these numbers are calculated.
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History
Tracking started Sep 15, 2026. Charts appear once there is more than one data point — nothing has changed since.
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