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99Vidas
Developer QUByte Interactive
99Vidas (Portuguese for "99 Lives") is a retro-styled side-scrolling beat 'em up video game developed and published by Brazilian studio QuByte Interactive. It was first released for Microsoft Windows, macOS, and Linux in late 2016, followed by PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, and PlayStation Vita in 2017. A Nintendo Switch version was released in November 2018. From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
127 reactions from 2 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky) · newest Oct 1, 2026 · last updated Oct 8, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
59
Mixed
74 positive · 51 negative
95% range 50–67%
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Steam's own rating
Mostly Positive
520 of 656 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What people are saying
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Reactions
60 of 127 · most liked firstI really wanted to like this game, but in the end of the day, I cant recommend this game to anyone. The developers had agreat idea with a great art style and a good soundtrack. This game looks good. Characters have interesting powers, there's a combo system that is simple yet rewarding a decent upgrade system. So why can't I recommend this game? Simple, the developers knew how to nail the look of a great brawler, but it appears they never figured out how one worked. Its like they never…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Okay, if anyone looking at this is unsure about the quality, let me just say that I was really surprised at how good this game is. I love Streets of Rage and Double Dragon and Scott Pilgrim vs. The World. Those games were great. And if you're a fan of those games, you won't be disappointed by this one. The fighting is frantic. The animation is great. The level art is fantastic. There's an amazing variety of characters (which i love) and plenty of moves to keep your thumbs busy. In fact, I'll…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Got it for 1 USD which is fair price
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is gonna be ranty, so sorry in advance. Playing this just pissed me off, to be honest, so I'm just going to list why it pisses me off without any order; I can't even make a well written passage about it. (I suppose I can't really blame the game on that though, I'm just lazy...) You can play similar games of better quality for free on flash game portals. The upgrades are just damage increases, so no real depth there, as "Fries" you can just spam the dash strong move most of the time and…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →99Vidas is a beat em up that supports up to four players, local and online. It's tongue-in-cheek humour that often breaks the fourth wall, excellent OST, and detailed pixel art style are a great combination, but the game isn't without its flaws. https://youtu.be/twALjPXaDVw If you spent your younger days feeding quarter to an arcade machine, you'll get a kick from the combination of 16Bit graphics and chiptune OST right off the bat. The story is your typical good guy versus bad guy affair in…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Honestíssimo (Avaliação quântica)
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →How to not make your sh!tty game: - Don't make enemies have invincible attacks that can connect any time, even when you are mashing the button as fast as you can to avoid being hit. - Don't let enemies chain-attack you, one after another so you lose almost your entire health bar in 3 seconds. - Don't give every single f#$king enemy a running attack that they spam at you from the other side of the screen, and even offscreen. - Don't make bosses like if they were stupid minigames where you…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Have been searching for a proper online co-op beat 'em up for ages and thought I'd found one, but unfortunately not. The only saving grace this game had was the soundtrack, but Streets of Rage it is not! A limited and uninspired set of moves make it all very repetitive and bland when it could have been so much more, it just becomes a chore very quickly. I put my first Steam refund to good use!
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Shows promise at first but then spirals into disaster the more you play it. All 4 characters feel too similar thus making them lack a unique style from one another. You unlock characters by beating the game but the first 4 you unlock are just clones of the starting 4, so you really get nothing. I haven't unlocked the other 3 because I just don't have the patience and I don't have fun when playing. When first starting out you're pathetically unequipped to be able to beat the game. So you may be…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Not fun. First off the characters have stats of speed and strength but there is no noticeable difference among characters. In the first level you're attacked from enemies off screen several times. And the fact that enemies can block attacks but from what I could tell you can not just makes the game feel broken.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →What you have here Is a damn good beat em up that mixes streets of rage, scott pilgrim and a perfect netcode, from the character upgrades to the character unlocks the games presents a lot of replay value, The only bad points I can say are the fact that the boss music Is not that great and that as of now there arent a lot of players online, still If you love these kind of games and If you have some friends that want to play it with you local or online dont doubt it this Is a no brainer.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Well i think this game is great as far as the game goes, but there is a very big but for me! Every time i purchase one of these style graphical games i get issues with the game looking over pixelated. I know the game does not look like this from the video on here and youTube videos to,so i have to give it a massive thumbs down for now, unless someone can tell me what iam missing! Else iam going to have to get a refund which i really dont want to do!.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Goofy foreign crapfest
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A very uninspired arcade beat-em-up clone. Punch, jump kick, use life to attack both ways. If you've played double dragon, you've played this. I was hoping to see something new like combos, dodge rolls, blocking, etc but it's just so... bland.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →So. I'm starting to think people have a low threshold for what they believe is a good game. This plays like if you played Street Fighter 3rd Strike (Streets of Rage, Double Dragon) and then your friend came over and was like "hey man I got this new game for you. its just like street fighter." and the game he was referring to was Breakers Revenge (99Vidas) If that reference went over your head. what I'm saying is. this game is ass.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is awesome. A addictive beat'n up, from the 80s or 90s, with a incredible soundtrack.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is a total waste of time The mechanics is so poorly design that it manages to give a frustrating experience without giving a challenge. Misalign the character to the enemy by a couple of pixel and you can't hit them. Grabbing is so random that whenver you run into an enemy, you don't know who will grab who. Some attacks just do not allow you to do anything, no block or dodging possible, and if you're unlucky then you might get rushed by one after another. Health points are placed…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Another game suffering from a player completion rate of less than 10 percent. Character interactions are slow and cumbersome, and everything feels sluggish all the time. I always felt as though I was trying to save the world with some groggy, fat kid, even while playing the fastest available character. The cyborg boss is bugged (he would hardly ever enter stun phase), and the bosses overall are redundant (especially that ninja). I was willing to play through the game, though, until the…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Cheio de menções as histórias do Podcast e coisas dos anos 90. Isso não significa que você precisa ser ouvinte do cast para o jogo ser bom. Ele por si só é um ótimo beat n up!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →this is an awesome game. for real. if you liked 16bit classic beat'em ups, this is the game for you. it plays like it should and it feels great.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →99Vidas 2 ?????
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Looks like Scott Pilgrim the game but that's about it. Enemies are cheap, you have to buy extra lives with points earned because once you're out of them it's game over- but not really I guess? You can replay the stage your were in but your lives go down to one. One life!!! Seriously?!?!? Bosses have unnecessary game-freezing unskippable flashy introductions, and speaking of bosses- they are incredibly more cheap as you progress- I made it to level 4 boss and every time I hit him he would…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Beat em up with a good art style and some nice backgrounds but one that plays too much like the more mediocre beat em ups of the past with nothing or very little done to improve on them, and in one case being worse. You have a punch, kick, two dash attacks, jump attacks, and a meter that charges over time to do a screen clearing and high damage moves. You have the usual dull weapons that are either worthless or behave in a dull way while doing little damage. Bat and pipes do an awkward looking…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Gameplay and asthetic are very similar to Double Dragon. However, Double Dragon is 30 years old and available for free. Does 99Vidas add anything new to make it worth buying? Sort of. There is a system of buying upgrades for your characters attacks. There is supposedly online play (although it wouldn't work for me. ) There's no real story and the character dialog is awful and only semi skippable. The artwork is OK but imho not up to the standard of Double Dragon or Final Fight. Worse than…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →If you put the Scott Pilgrim game and Final Fight with generic as all hell characters into a blender you'd get this. Very fun, a little overly difficult and fun multiplayer. Oh, also... the music here is surprisingly good. Like really, really good. Definitley check this game out if you like beat em ups!!!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Happy to see Brazilian games on Steam… but this one? Hmm. NOPE. I’m always glad to see Brazilian games on Steam. Not because I’m Brazilian—well, I’m naturalized, not born in… anyway. I’m happy because this is a market with almost no recognition and no consolidated industry—just the dreams of young folks who love gaming and want to create their own games. Now let’s get to the review. It’s a pretty generic beat ’em up, which reminds me of the equally generic beat ’em ups from the '90s. Since…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A good beat-em-up with a very simple visual style, I couldn't finish it because I got bored of it quickly.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →An obvious title reference to the Konami Code from NES' "Contra", 99Vidas takes a lot of inspiration from classic 16-bit 2-D fighting games and rolls it into a Streets of Rage wannabe game. I say "wannabe" because this games wants to emulate everything that was fun about Streets of Rage, but falls short at almost every turn. 99 Vidas can be summarized in the following phrase: "Hey, you remember that really great game Streets of Rage 2? Am I reminding you of that great game? Glad I could…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ is this game bad. Half the time you're trying to start a combo and you get interrupted/pinned between two characters, and the devs set the Punch and Jump button to do your "special" that rips out some of your life to an area attack to stop combos, so you'll end up using it accidentally. A LOT. The game has some unlockables, and it also was nice enough to let you go past the cutscenes, but overall, this game is pretty terrible. I thought it'd get better once the "skill tree" was…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Gameplay is repetitive, poor mechanics (like weapons without damage modification) and slow response for moves. The graphics are good and was cheap (bought in a promotion) but there is a lot better beat'em ups around.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I listen to the 99 Vidas Podcast and really wanted to like the game. That wasn't the case. The game has problems balancing the enemies (player's speed and reach is lower than the enemies, allowing them to grab you but you can't do a thing) and a few problema with colision (if you try to reach the enemy but you are a little above or bellow, you don't hit him but he can hit you). One of the bosses (the fifth) has way more speed than the player, teletransports it self and stunns the player faster…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Game stuck in loading screen, won't start. Developer doesn't respond to bug reports. Looks like it was abandoned. Cannot recommend at this state.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →99Vidas bring us back to a classic game genre, the amazing beat ‘em up! Despite the fact that some of the new games of this genre come in a 3D platform, 99Vidas throw us back to the classical arcade. We have a good amount of characters to choose, and each has their own element, like fire, lightning, water and rock. The side scrolling movement, urban fights and pixel style sound like a good game to remember the classics. But it is not only a rescue of the past; it has its own features like…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Funny, but hard!!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →My game group was looking for an online cross-platform (Windows/Linux) multiplayer beat 'em up (remembering Double Dragon and Streets of Rage) and this game hit that sweet spot. Side-scroller that starts simple with just enemies to punch/kick to knock them out. However, there is progression with your character and there are combos to learn to get through the more difficult levels.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Don't do it bro.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →tl;dr: It is ok-ish but Steam has better and cheaper Beat'em up. Buy only if you love the podcast and you are familiar with Brazilian culture. Or you are going to be missing a lot of the context. Pros: 4 players (local/coop) Enemies behavior are quite nice Nice maps Nice idea of mechanics Nice combosThey managed to do a lot for the game compared on what my friend told em they spend on it. Cons: It gets repetitive pretty fast. Including the Enemies behavior that I liked during my first…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Game felt to clunky for a beat'um up
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game isn't even worth writing a real review. Every other negative review gets it about right.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Relaxa, a gente tem 99vidas... Otimo jogo, me lembrou bem os tempos dos arcades
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Great game! maybe need some fixes, but the sound, songs, need more moments linked with the podcast. Solo on hard mode it is so crazy, normal game is fun alot... well... i'm trying to unlock all chars and moves upgrades. This week, i miss online players to "co-op ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ fight party", the multiplayer is the best part of this... you need to try it! It's the first step, i knew, but i need more! Lore, levels, moves... but is honest :D 95/99
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game is fantastic. It brings back the magic and nostalgia of the Beat 'em up of the' 80s and '90s as well as being packed with easter eggs and references to retro games and the 99vidas podcast.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →⣿⣿⡻⠿⣳⠸⢿⡇⢇⣿⡧⢹⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣾⣿⡇⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⡐⣯⠁ ⠄⠄ ⠟⣛⣽⡳⠼⠄⠈⣷⡾⣥⣱⠃⠣⣿⣿⣿⣯⣭⠽⡇⣿⣿⣿⣿⣟⢢⠏⠄ ⠄ ⢠⡿⠶⣮⣝⣿⠄⠄⠈⡥⢭⣥⠅⢌⣽⣿⣻⢶⣭⡿⠿⠜⢿⣿⣿⡿⠁⠄⠄ ⠄⣼⣧⠤⢌⣭⡇⠄⠄⠄⠭⠭⠭⠯⠴⣚⣉⣛⡢⠭⠵⢶⣾⣦⡍⠁⠄⠄⠄⠄ ⠄⣿⣷⣯⣭⡷⠄⠄⢀⣀⠩⠍⢉⣛⣛⠫⢏⣈⣭⣥⣶⣶⣦⣭⣛⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄ ⢀⣿⣿⣿⡿⠃⢀⣴⣿⣿⣿⣎⢩⠌⣡⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣆⠄⠄⠄ ⢸⡿⢟⣽⠎⣰⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢀⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣦⠄⠄ ⣰⠯⣾⢅⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡄⠄ ⢰⣄⡉⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⠄ ⢯⣌⢹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠄ ⢸⣇⣽⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠄ ⢸⣟⣧⡻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⡻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠄ ⠈⢹⡧⣿⣸⠿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠗⣈⠻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠄ ⠄⠘⢷⡳⣾⣷⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣾⣿⣿⢀⣶⣶⣶⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠇⠄ ⠄⠄⠈⣵⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠄⠄ ⠄⠄⠄⠸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠘⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠇⠄⠄
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →don't do it bro!
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →99Vidas is a well-presented and mechanically sound beat-em-up that is hampered only by some very strange and downright bad design choices. The visuals are nice, the music is outstanding, and on a basic level, it's a fun and slick beat-em-up that borrows heavily from the classic Streets of Rage titles. Unfortunately, anything novel it attempts to add to the formula only detracts from the experience. Environmental hazards are too difficult to avoid, and it seems to me unreasonable to require the…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is one heck of a poor beat-em-up. Have you ever played a game that felt like it could be good if it wasn't so... SLOOOOOOWW? This game is essentially a new iteration of Separation Anxiety. Battles take FOREVER. It's a slog to get through. Also, the music... it's so weak. It doesn't have the punch of Streets of Rage, it doesn't have the tensity of Golden Axe.. it's just lacking. It didn't make we want to punch anything at all. And the art design? It's awful. Absolutely awful. About half…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Honestíssimo! Merece 99 vidas
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is a decent beat-em up but not great. This category is pretty saturated with games so there is little making this game stand out, but on sale it's worth a look, there's just not enough variety between characters and especially with multiple playthroughs making the game more of a chore if you want to get all the achievements etc. I will recommend the game, not highly, but on sale as stated previously, it's worth a look if you love beat-em ups, i'd give it a six or so as is.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Been working on a new video series called “Until the Last Stock”! Basically, we rate video games based on how easily you lose your lives in the game! Certain games don’t work with this, so we won’t be doing those. First video drops on YouTube this Monday! The game: 99Vidas!
unlabelledView post →Good beat 'em up game, a bit harder for casual gamers to enjoy
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →🧢 Recommended, but ONLY for fans of the genre. The game has not bad animations, beautiful backgrounds and a soundtrack that tries rearrange the «SoR» motives, but the gameplay is.. meh. What with the chars attacks ranges (or hitboxes)? Why do I have to go into the "intimacy kiss zone" to hit enemies? Arcade bosses are just lazy. They have invincibility patterns with an obvious window for hits, and that's how you beat ALL of the bosses. Plus, making fun of the retro titles flaws, but using them…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's brazilian. If "City of God" didn't make you racist, this will. The whole thing is more off than sunsoaked mayonnaise. Double Dragon starvation made me buy this. I think I got it nearly for free. Still feel ripped off.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's too repetitive and doesn't feel unique.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →4.7 hours into this game and I wish I could get a refund. Been playing a bunch of beat-em ups recently and Streets of Rage 4 is our go-to so I'm not a complete novice but the level design is ridiculous. To get to the boss, you need to fight all of the previous bosses again? Even on the easiest mode, the game is challenging and extremely discouraging due to that. At least with Streets of Rage 4 or any of the capcom beat'em ups, I'm able to beat the game on easy and normal at least. This game,…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Eu honestamente prefiro pagar pra comer merda do que pagar por esse jogo mais uma vez. Recebi ele como um gift de uma amiga e eu me sinto mal por ela ter gasto esse dinheiro comigo sendo que ela poderia ter comprado uma pipoteca ou milhopan. Começando pelo gameplay? Simples, como um beat'em up deve ser, ande e soque tudo na sua frente, porém com inimigos mais "esponja" do que um ARPG, levando um tempo desnecessário pra matar. Bossfights? Relativamente criativas, com a necessidade de staggerar…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →In just the first level, it felt like work getting through the area. All the moves feel sluggish, and enemies feel more or less the same. Aside from many design issues, if you could attack the same target as a friend like in....any other beat em up of the last 10 years, it would feel so much better.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's pretty fun. Good art, and music. The enemies get a little repetitive though, you'll be seeing a lot of the same throught the levels. The bosses are decent, but can have little window to attack them, and even when you do attack, sometimes they don't get stunned. Co-op is fun, but double the enemies can make for a bit of a hassle, and can be hard to track. One problem that was very punishing for me is the fact that you can't get any lives once you start a new level. I got stuck on the final…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A very repetitive and dry beat'em up. Music is also on the low-quality side, it just kind of drags on and isn't fun to listen to.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Cool gameplay and very nostalgic
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's a very mixed bag. The English isn't perfect, but some of the writing is surprisingly witty. Obvious effort was taken in some parts of the visual presentation, but other animations look really sub-par. There's some good creativity in its boss-design, but most of the combat is repetitive and devolves quickly into a one-size-fits-all cheesing strategy. Having another local-multiplayer game to try with friends is great, but that feeling's lessened when it's a game you'll easily beat within…
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