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20XX
Developer Batterystaple Games, Fire Hose Games
20XX is a platform game developed by American studio Batterystaple Games. The early access version was released for Microsoft Windows on Steam on October 12, 2016, and in full on August 16, 2017. PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, and Xbox One versions were released in July 2018. A sequel, 30XX, was released on Steam Early Access on February 17, 2021, and in full on August 9, 2023. From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
302 reactions from 4 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Lemmy, Mastodon) · newest Nov 4, 2026 · last updated Nov 5, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
72
Fresh
128 positive · 50 negative
95% range 65–78%
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steam reviews | 128 | 50 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 13 | 4 | 88 |
| Lemmy * | 3 | 0 | 9 |
| Mastodon * | 2 | 0 | 5 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
Steam's own rating
Very Positive
2,906 of 3,175 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What players are saying
71% recommend · 129 yes, 52 no
Counted from the reviewers’ own thumbs up/down on the 181 English Steam reviews we collected, not by the AI. Valve’s all-language rating: Very Positive (4,167 of 4,591 positive).
Players praise the fast-paced Mega Man-style gameplay and tight controls. [1][2][3] Some reviewers note the game is worth playing but recommend the sequel 30XX instead. [4][5][6] Several players criticize the procedural level design and difficulty spikes. [7][8][9]
Liked
Representative posts
- [7]
Gotta be one of the most overrated games I've ever played. This is not a worthy successor to Mega Man X. The procedural generation is awful, the stage design is the most low effort trash, just floating platforms over pits 95% of the time. The game is way too easy at the start, and gets progressively more absurd as it goes on. Then an extreme abrupt difficulty spike in the final two stages, which are twice as long …
- [1]
Fast paced wild platforming Mega-Man action First I want to give big props to CK, the developer, they heard through the grapevine that a roguelike fanatic just got through a terribly difficult time in her life. They went out of their way to help me celebrate getting housing after 376 days of homelessness with some 20XX steam codes. I honestly cried playing my first run, felt so good! Chris King certainly is King, …
- [4]
It is really hard to recommend 20XX when 30XX is currently available. I like what 20XX did, and I appreciate the groundwork it laid for 30XX, but it has a lot of jank, the art style is not really my cup of tea, and the way the seeds generated some of the levels were more frustrating than fun. It isn't a bad game and in a vacuum I probably would suggest it, but seriously just go pick up 30XX instead. I am still …
- [2]
This game had me addicted like crazy. Even I am shocked that I put about 80 hours into it. I very rarely can actually play a game for that many hours. If you're into the idea of a roguelite game in the style of Mega Man, you can't do any better than this. I love the music and the gameplay is stellar. The graphics kind of have that "flash game" look but I found them pleasing to look at and very colorful. The game …
- [3]
Very enjoyable gameplay if you like fast (and sometimes precise) platforming and projectile dodging. I personally have no great attachment to the roguelike aspect (due to the potential for bad luck to mess up runs), but in this case I thought the upgrades (including permanent upgrades) were meaningful and usually led to a reasonable difficulty curve. The final levels made me sweat a bit, but beating the game was …
Summarised from 34 of the 286 public posts collected about this game; every point cites the posts behind it ([n] opens the post) and the split is counted from the posts’ own ratings. Updated Oct 12, 2026. How summaries are made
RottenBot@rottenbot · automated account
Players who liked 20XX talk about fast-paced platforming with tight controls; those who didn't talk about procedural generation leads to frustrating level design. Which matters more to you?
Critics, per Wikipedia
Nintendo Life described the gameplay as addictive, and, although they felt some aspects were a bit repetitive, they said the upgrades and customization made up for it. Nintendo World Report recommended it to fans of Mega Man and platform games, but they felt it should have more story. Cite error: There are <ref group=lower-alpha> tags or {{efn}} templates on this page, but the references will not show without a {{reflist|group=lower-alpha}} template or {{notelist}} template (see the help page).
From the “Reception” section of Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Critic context only — not part of the audience score.
Reactions
60 of 302 · most liked firstNew from GalaxyTrail, introducing the Cube Machine! Now you can play any GalaxyTrail game whenever you wish on whatever you want! Releases in the year 20XX!
neutral · AI labelView post →G-MODE continues to do great keitai game preservation work! They've announced the rereleases of four sought-after keitai games, including two Armored Core games and Shin Megami Tensei 20XX! These Unity ports appear to be the i-mode versions of the games in particular. prtimes.jp/main/html/rd...
neutral · AI labelView post →Our newest physical edition brings 20XX and 30XX together on a single game card! Each copy includes an instruction booklet, a foldout augment poster, and more: www.fangamer.com/collections/...
neutral · AI labelView post →Why Does Dr. Wily Keep Getting Away? Is the Legal System in 20XX a Joke?. In nearly every Mega Man game, Dr. Wily is captured at the end—usually after unleashing an army of killer robots and nearly destroying the world. And yet, by the next game, he’s back at it like nothing happened. So what's the in-universe deal? Is the 20XX justice system just that incompetent or corrupt? Is there some official lore reason he's constantly released or escapes? Or are we just supposed to suspend disbelief…
neutral · AI labelView post →20XX/30XX physical editions have arrived! Available now for Nintendo Switch, in stores or right here: www.fangamer.com/collections/...
neutral · AI labelView post →G-Mode has just released the PC port of the Japanese feature phone game Shin Megami Tensei 20XX on Steam today. The same port is also available earlier on the Japanese Nintendo Switch eShop: www.rpgsite.net/news/17223-g...
neutral · AI labelView post →Fast paced wild platforming Mega-Man action First I want to give big props to CK, the developer, they heard through the grapevine that a roguelike fanatic just got through a terribly difficult time in her life. They went out of their way to help me celebrate getting housing after 376 days of homelessness with some 20XX steam codes. I honestly cried playing my first run, felt so good! Chris King certainly is King, Thank you so much <3 Really means a lot Review time Love this game! Straight to…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The G-Mode Archives+ port of the feature phone game Shin Megami Tensei 20XX will appear in Japan for Switch on April 24 & PC via Steam on May 8. Another port for SMT: Tokyo Requiem will follow suit later on: www.rpgsite.net/news/17223-g...
neutral · AI labelView post →Packed at ready to go in 19XX and in 20XX. Distruptor is the first game from Insomniac Games, last seen slinging webs over and around New York. While not a commercial success, they caught the eye of Mark Cerny, who encouraged them to make a little game starring a purple dragon - Spyro.
neutral · AI labelView post →New Fumito Ueda game announced (see you in 20XX 🥲). Virtua Fighter returning from the dead. 😵 New Onimusha and Okami!? Truly a “we are so back” moment for games.
neutral · AI labelView post →Mega Man Battle Network (2001) for the Game Boy Advance was an action RPG by Capcom. It is 20XX and the internet-of-things is everywhere! Virus busting is taught in grade school and a nefarious organization, WWW, seeks to take it all over! Can Lan and MegaMan.EXE stop them??? (a rogue app thread)
neutral · AI labelView post →> So what do we do? First off Americans need to primary >75% of sitting democrats by 2028. DNC is full of boomer sellouts towing the line for the Epstien-billionare class. I'm not saying that will fix everything; but it is 100% a pre-requisite to the USA recognizably existing past 20XX. > force all the people to accept science and liberal or social democratic values Yea the rest of the world just calls that "Education." USA has systematically defunded education and the result…
neutral · AI labelView post →Ever wondered how your team could get 100-0ed in the first 30 seconds of the game? Tune in to the 20XX livestream show this weekend and observe these Analysis Desk specialists articulate "your team was feeding" in multitude phrasings! Don't miss out! #compsplatoon
neutral · AI labelView post →Finally got around to playing 30XX, and it is AMAZING. The switch to true pixel graphics fills the gaps that 20XX left bare. But it also reminds me of a thing I'm getting annoyed with in games, a thing I call "scrub-shaming". It may have another name, that's just what I call it.
positive · AI labelView post →Better late than never: monochrome Monday edition. Been playing this dope ass game called 20xx. Ever heard of it?
positive · AI labelView post →Well, since the last game fizzled out, does anyone have any suggestions for games they'd like to play? I'm open to GM anything ;). I am game to run whatever you guys want to play. I have experience playing 20xx, Troika, FU, Whitebox and a variety of other systems. I am also willing to try any rules light system (as it is best for play by post, especially here on Lemmy). Any genre as well, I'll go with the group consensus. Give me suggestions and we'll see where we end up. Let's get our…
neutral · AI labelView post →The year is 20XX fighting game players still don't use the build-in button check on the character select
neutral · AI labelView post →this is a urban fantasy game, its a lot wilder than cyberpunk 20XX
neutral · AI labelView post →I decided to boot up Seven Samurai 20XX on PS2 because I just remembered it being really bad but not in what way. This game has some of the worst load times I’ve ever seen. 25 seconds is the minimum it’s usually 30-40 seconds and one crazy time took a full 8 minutes to load this tiny room.
negative · AI labelView post →7th Saga added to Switch Online SNES classics Seven Samurai 20XX HD Remaster David Fincher's Se7en the Game of the Movie
neutral · AI labelView post →COMING SOON IN 20XX: I make a game with a fat-assed robot to replace the fat-assed robot shaped hole in my heart. Jokes aside, this experience only further emboldens my ambitions to make something fun for others to enjoy. More on that in the new year 💚
neutral · AI labelView post →Game Pre-Orders via Fangamer. ANTONBLAST (S) $34.99 ow.ly/6Vj050WmtW9 20XX/30XX (S) $34.99 ow.ly/UOa950WmtWa Crow Country (S/PS5) $34.99, Deluxe $59.99 ow.ly/3O4n50WmtWb
neutral · AI labelView post →20xx is a game with good gameplay and music that is unfortunately ruined by design decisions anti-thematical to the roguelite genre. 1. Your currency for unlocking permanent upgrades doesn't carry over between runs. Yes you read that correctly. Either you gained enough soul chips during a run to unlock something or you unlock nothing and hope to do better on the next run. 2. No permanent upgrades list. You can neither view your unlocked upgrades in clarity nor plan ahead for future ones.…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It is really hard to recommend 20XX when 30XX is currently available. I like what 20XX did, and I appreciate the groundwork it laid for 30XX, but it has a lot of jank, the art style is not really my cup of tea, and the way the seeds generated some of the levels were more frustrating than fun. It isn't a bad game and in a vacuum I probably would suggest it, but seriously just go pick up 30XX instead. I am still clicking "Yes" because I want to give the game and the devs a good review as I…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Anyway, if the game was as strong as its last third the whole way through I'd probably consider this Kyuuyaku II level As it stands though 20XX is a mostly harmless, frequently sloggy game featuring some fun fanservice and cool ideas it doesn't fully capitalise on
neutral · AI labelView post →Gotta be one of the most overrated games I've ever played. This is not a worthy successor to Mega Man X. The procedural generation is awful, the stage design is the most low effort trash, just floating platforms over pits 95% of the time. The game is way too easy at the start, and gets progressively more absurd as it goes on. Then an extreme abrupt difficulty spike in the final two stages, which are twice as long and 10 times harder than the rest of the game put together. It just feels…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Remember when we used to have standards like 15 years ago? Dudes like Angry Joe would make videos about games like this titled "THE MOST BROKEN GAME OF 20XX" and get 100 gorillion views and now we just kinda don't care.
neutral · AI labelView post →the year is 20XX - every game is bait now. deltarune chapter 7 is released. people immediately call it toby bait
neutral · AI labelView post →From my 20xx day 2 stream. 3rd game vs Sun Eater bringing us to winners semi finals. Being able to reach this spot in bracket with still 0 games dropped over both days told me we deserved to be here thus a lot of emotion lol.
positive · AI labelView post →my goal in life is to become famous enough of a gamedev that many people will pay attention to and get excited about release dates for my projects, and then i will announce i am releasing my highly anticipated game 'winter 20XX' then drop it june just to fuck with the northern hemisphere
neutral · AI labelView post →Arcade Spirits, a tale of love and pixels from the year 20XX, is on sale for five bucks right now! store.steampowered.com/app/910630/A... But wait, there's more -- its sequel, The New Challengers, is one dollar! One freakin' dollar! Like, what? store.steampowered.com/app/1484620/...
neutral · AI labelView post →Im not trying to be negative but the zelda look is giving mad "what this game will look like in year 20XX" vibes to the worst level
neutral · AI labelView post →Oh sick new Metro 20XX game coming.
neutral · AI labelView post →Xbox Classics - Xbox (20xx) made cause I was bored. don't mind the yoshi pfp in the top left.
neutral · AI labelView post →ive been playing around with fonts and stuff recently, idk what the actual term is, like... mock up?? video game?? concept art ?? anyway Please Play My New First Video Game, "Heaven's Resurrected Teahouse ~ Copper Hearts' Oxidize 18:24:02" Coming Soon February 31st, 20XX on itch dot io
neutral · AI labelView post →A new HD-2D action RPG, a remake of the secret best Pac-Man game and a new Katamari soundtrack attached to a game is pretty solid stuff A good trade-off for having to sit through the 800th showing of Just Dance 20XX and big sweaty ball kick
neutral · AI labelView post →@exaltedfuneral.bsky.social's Summer Sale is on right now. That means you can grab the GRIDSHOCK 20XX print bundle of 4 zines for $10 a pop! One reviewer calls them "Fantastic books with great art and writing!" Could that be true? Only one way to find out! www.exaltedfuneral.com/products/gri...
neutral · AI labelView post →A bit of a thumbs-sideways leaning to thumbs-down because I know I'll never play it again. I think you will either end up loving it or thinking it's mid, and there's no way to know without playing a couple hours. Get it on sale maybe, or keep that refund option at-the-ready.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Hello, folks! I have announced that I am developing a 3D spinoff titled MIMO3D! This is just a preview of Mimosa's 3D model for the game. This game will be released on Munchiary 99, 20XX, so don't miss it! historiaq.itch.io/mimosa/devlo... #gamedev
neutral · AI labelView post →I worked on a game for #wintervnjam! Check it out :3 The Winter 20XX skiing competition is just around the corner, will you choose to pursue your smug, smooth talking best friend, or your hot headed rival with a peculiar interest? #gamedev #indiedev #visualnovel harleorah.itch.io/red-run-roma...
neutral · AI labelView post →Shop Fangamer Video Game Titles for $49.99 CAD (~$36 USD) Each at PNP Games! pnp.games/ljq2e Including: -20XX/30XX SWITCH -Faith The Unholy Trinity PS5 -Little Kitty Big City PS5 -Pizza Tower SWITCH -UFO 50 SWITCH ...and more! 🕹️ shop pnp.games
neutral · AI labelView post →i was pitching DIMPScember as a streaming month to oomf and i learned that their not-good PS2 game Seven Samurai 20XX had character designs by Moebius and an OST by Ryuichi Sakamoto, for some reason
neutral · AI labelView post →Imagine you play the worlds from 1 to 4 of Super Mario Bros, forever, again and again, but randomized. Can you bare it? Moreover some level components are really poorly designed. This is an indie, but even for that not fun. Playing 20XX is something like that—many roguelikes are so more or less, and it was my fault that I overlooked 20XX is a roguelike.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I really wanted to like this game, I'm a huge fan of Megaman style games... but this ain't one I can recommend.... Does it feel and play like Megaman? A bit... The control of the main character feels like a Megaman game... but that's it... Sadly.... The special powers are very underwhelming, especially when you start boosting your main weapon and when that one starts doing more damage than the special weapon some enemy are weak to... Out of the 8, two of them are really useful, the rest is…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game had me addicted like crazy. Even I am shocked that I put about 80 hours into it. I very rarely can actually play a game for that many hours. If you're into the idea of a roguelite game in the style of Mega Man, you can't do any better than this. I love the music and the gameplay is stellar. The graphics kind of have that "flash game" look but I found them pleasing to look at and very colorful. The game also performs great and is smooth as silk at high framerates. You won't be…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →youtuber (Fairlii) played my game/art toy (FURRY PAINTER 20XX)
neutral · AI labelView post →The big value is in the nostalgia for MegaMan X. For fans, it will be a great trip, but it is likely not for everyone.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The new Mega Man game is coming out in 20XX
neutral · AI labelView post →Arcade Spirits on Steam and other stores. Arcade Spirits is a romantic visual novel that follows an alternative timeline where the 1983 video game crash never occurred. It's 20XX and you've just started a new job at the Funplex game arcade. Who will you meet along the way? Will you find the romance you're seeking? Arcade Spirits is a romantic visual novel that follows an alternative timeline where the 1983 video game crash never occurred. It's 20XX and you've just started a new job at the…
neutral · AI labelView post →see you in a few years when it appears in everyone's "worst game of 20xx" lists
neutral · AI labelView post →clips.twitch.tv/FaithfulTrus... Title: WHAT IS THIS?! Game: 20XX Clipped by: Piboom Clipped on: September 10, 2017
neutral · AI labelView post →FATELESS game with Toby Fox coming out 20XX
neutral · AI labelView post →20XX is a good game, and I don’t regret buying it. Is it as good as Mega Man X? No. It’s a roguelike, so it can’t have the tight level design and handcrafted campaign of Mega Man X. Its design is for replayability, not a tight game you play once. Strengths of both: 20XX has 2-player co-op, compared to Mega Man X’s 1-player mode, so I can play with my nieces and nephews. Mega Man X has better bosses in both design and gameplay. 20XX has daily and weekly challenges. Mega Man X has much…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Gonna throw my hat in the ring and say this game is still worth playing, even after its sequel's release. If you're only gonna buy one, then yes, get 30XX. 30XX is a bigger game, with more in-depth mechanics, more features, a level editor, beautiful art style, even a non-roguelike campaign if you're interested in that sort of thing. So with all those points in 30XX's favor, it's easy to see why that game has mostly replaced its predecessor for so many. However, I would also say that all of…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Google now seems to think that GRIDSHOCK 20XX and the video game 20XX are related and/or the same thing, so I guess I'm definitely taking "20XX" out of the name next time. (I added it in the first place to distinguish the game from a documentary film called Gridshock.)
neutral · AI labelView post →Mega Man Legends 3 first and foremost, we need it. A collab with BatteryStaple (makers of 20XX) to make a roguelike Mega Man X game with robots from the various games. Mega Man 12 with no silly gears gimmick, just classic run and shoot.
neutral · AI labelView post →I'm not a game critic or streamer and my expectations of a video game isn't "is this game fun to play in the year 20XX". I mean I obviously have favorite games, but my brain isn't engaging with the media in the context of The Best/Most Fun. I'm more interested in the historical context of a game.
neutral · AI labelView post →20XX on Gamera vs Gyaos | disasteryear20xx.blogspot.com/2025/11/game...
neutral · AI labelView post →The year is 20XX and every new board game is Lord of the Rings themed.
neutral · AI labelView post →49. I care more about the historical context of a video game's release than I care about whether a game is "still good in 20XX"
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