Experience the rhythmic thrill of BIT.TRIP RUNNER! With its retro charm, simple controls, and award-winning visuals, this classic sets the standard for rhythm gaming. Don't miss the game that started it all in the acclaimed runner series.
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Each in the currency that store quoted — not converted: the gap between two rows is the publisher's pricing, not an exchange rate.
Every market we collect.
Discounts
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): 0.29/day in the week to Sep 8 → 0.14/day in the week after.
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Genres
Sums Steam only; Nintendo publishes no volume signal, so the true total is higher by an unknown amount.
| Store | Price | Audience | Score | Chart | Est. revenue |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
SteamYou are here | $9.99 | 4Kreviews | 86% | — | $1M |
| $1.99−60% | — | — | — | not modelled |
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.
Engagement
Reviews
Themes across 46 recent reviews and how positive each mention is. A keyword signal, not full sentiment analysis.
Reviews
Boring and hardcore in a bad way.
BIT.TRIP RUNNER is a punishing but genuinely addictive rhythm auto-runner that had me completely hooked on its chiptune soundtrack and tight controls — until the brutal difficulty spikes nearly broke me. The way your button presses weave into the music is incredibly satisfying, and that dopamine hit when you finally clear a level you've been grinding is unlike anything else. That said, the zero-checkpoint design means you'll be replaying long stretches of levels you've already mastered just to die to something you couldn't have seen coming, which gets exhausting fast — especially around 1-11 and the final world. If you have patience and love a stiff challenge, this cult classic is absolutely worth it; if rage-quitting sounds like your nightmare, maybe start with Runner 2 instead.
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Reviews, worldwide (the counter carries no country): 0/day in the week to Jul 30 → 0/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.
Stats
All-time low is the lowest price we've recorded for this game since we started tracking it.
Languages: English
Hours played at review time, across 46 reviews with recorded playtime.
positive critical· bar length = how often the theme comes up
While I enjoyed this game, I found that it just got too repetitive very quickly so it was hard to play past a few hours. If you don't mind that, feel free to give it a try.
intentionally blocks use on linux
Excellent game. Gets very difficult as it progresses.
I do not like this game very much.
BIT.TRIP RUNNER - одна из игр "ошибок молодости", покупал, чтобы создать дешевые значки для профиля! В 2026 таким бы я заниматься точно не стал! Особо не планировал играть в эти игры, думаю так это и останется! Но если вдруг окажется, что одна из них это "Скрытый гем", то обязательно дам знать!
сложно играть
Esta bien, pero el problema, no conseguia poner la pantalla completa, consegui ponerla, al llegar al jefe, del nivel 1
A good beginning for this rhythm auto-runner series. The game has simple and easy to understand controls, and the gameplay is fun and addicting. The music is excellent and the adaptive bits enhance the player input with it. It's got a few problems though: * There isn't a checkpoint system like following entries, making the later levels quiet frustrating as they get longer and longer. * The game runs at 60fps but the background has a set motion blur that you can't deactivate, making hazards more difficult to anticipate on first runs, adn it can cause a little eye strain if playing for long sesions. * While on the subject of hazards and backgrounds, some of them are not distinguishable enough. This can feel a little cheap taking into account that getting hit takes you all the way back to the beginning of the level. In conclusion, a good introduction for the series and a fun and challenging rhythm platformer.
Players by region
Where this game's players are, estimated from review languages.
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