'83 game data

'83 is a 40-versus-40 squad shooter set in an alternate 1983 where the Cold War turned hot. It launched in Early Access on Steam on 23 April 2026, seven years after it was first announced. Five months later, on 25 September 2026, its developer Blue Dot Games suspended sales. The game is still playable for people who own it. Our history of '83 covers the long road to launch.

Players

'83 peaked at 813 players online at once on Steam on launch day, 23 April 2026, according to SteamDB figures reported by PC Games Hardware the next day, when 174 were online. Spanish site 3DJuegos reported in September 2026 that peaks had fallen to 11 players in June and 8 in September. When it suspended sales, Blue Dot Games said a content update, a sale, a free demo and a games-show appearance hadn't lifted the game as it had hoped.

Steam Charts' page for '83 returned an error each time we tried on 20 October 2026, so this page has no current 30-day figure. We'll add one when it can be read.

How it plays

'83 is an online first-person shooter played in teams of 40 against 40, on the side of either NATO or the Warsaw Pact. Battles mix infantry with vehicles, tanks and fire missions, and matches last 30 to 40 minutes.

Play is squad-based and built around objectives: a team wins by capturing key points on the map, which Blue Dot Games says calls for flanking, diversions and well-timed fire missions coordinated across several squads. Each team has a Team Commander who guides the faction in what the developer calls an RTS-style layer on top of the shooting. If you die, you are back in the fight within a minute or two.

Players choose from predefined classes and can customise their loadout. Weapons are modelled on their real counterparts and handle that way: barrels and suppressors overheat under rapid fire, machine guns work better when deployed on a stable surface, and rounds left in a half-empty magazine don't carry over when you reload.

What it costs

You can't buy '83 at the moment. Steam's store page says the game "is no longer available on the Steam store", and the Steam store data lists no purchase option. Before the suspension it was sold as a one-off purchase in Early Access, with no in-game purchases; Blue Dot ran a 50% sale in July 2026 and a 67% sale in September, alongside a free demo. Its only progression system is cosmetic.

Can you still play it?

Yes, if you already own it. Blue Dot Games' post said: "The game will still be playable and there will be servers up." The studio said it was looking for other options and couldn't "continue selling the game whilst the future is so uncertain".

Age ratings

'83 is rated PEGI 18 for violence and bad language. Steam's notes warn of "blood and moderate gory imagery". It is also rated 18 by Steam Germany and Indonesia's IGRS, and 16 by Brazil's DEJUS.

How we checked

Ratings and availability come from Valve's Steam store data and store page for app 1059220, read on 20 October 2026. The sales suspension, sales and updates are from Blue Dot Games' own Steam announcements. The launch-day peak is from PC Games Hardware (24 April 2026), citing SteamDB. The gameplay description is based on the publisher's Steam store page.

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