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ULTRAKILL

ULTRAKILL is a fast-paced ultra-violent retro FPS that combines the skill-based style scoring of character action games with the unadulterated carnage inspired by the best shooters of the '90s. Rip apart your foes with varied destructive weaponry and shower in their blood to regain your health.

Developer
Arsi "Hakita" Patala
Publisher
New Blood Interactive
Franchise
—
Release date
Sep 3, 2020
Store page updated
Jul 13, 2026
Price
−25% $29.99 $22.49 · Steam store ↗

Review Analysis Score

92.1/ 100

Based on 320 reviews from the past 1 year

Steam User Rating
Recent 🤩 Overwhelmingly Positive 97% of 2,757
All time 🤩 Overwhelmingly Positive 97% of 243,706
“amazing game despite extreme difficulty”

How it holds up

−50+5
Gameplay
+3.11
Difficulty +2.33
“mastering movement mechanics creates exhilarating flow state” (22)

🔒 5 more indicators

Story & World
+2.87
Story +2.96

🔒 2 more indicators

Content Volume
+3.24
Volume +2.73

🔒 2 more indicators

Visuals & Sound
+4.05
Audio +4.43
“peak soundtrack with incredible sound design and music” (30)

🔒 1 more indicators

Multiplayer
+0.25

Not enough data — only 2% of reviews mention this.

Community +0.00

🔒 1 more indicators

Fairness
+1.17

Not enough data — only 5% of reviews mention this.

Monetization +2.33

🔒 3 more indicators

Tech & Ops
-0.71
Performance +0.44

🔒 3 more indicators

Scores are the average of reviews that mention each category (−5 to +5). Fainter bars were mentioned by fewer reviews; grey means too few to trust. Tap a category ▾ to see what drives it.

Steam review activity

% positive over time
since launch, by month · major update
90%92%94%96%98%100%
Sep 2020Sep 2026
Reviews
per day · 2,723 reviews, peak 129/day
0100200
Aug 19Sep 16

Steam only gives daily counts for the last 30 days; longer ranges are by month. Months with fewer than 10 reviews are left out of % positive. "Show updates" marks major updates and DLC the developer posted on Steam (since about 2020) — hover a column to see % positive the month before and after.

Review languages

Languages of the 320 reviews we analyzed from the past year — not all Steam reviews.

  • English39%
  • Russian18%
  • Portuguese16%
  • Spanish16%
  • Turkish6%
  • French2%
  • Other4%

🔒 Scores broken down by language — how Russian or Chinese players rate each category — are in the paid dashboard.

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