Radiant Silvergun is coming soon to the PC according to a store page that appeared on Steam last night.
No release date is listed on the Steam page, but Gematsu reported that the release date will be Aug. 18.
This will be the first time that the legendary shmup — which was developed by Treasure and published for arcades and on the Saturn in 1998 exclusively in Japan — will be available on PC.
It was released worldwide for the first time on the Xbox 360 in 2011 — complete with English subtitles — before a small developer named Live Wire brought that version to the Nintendo Switch last year.
Radiant Silvergun’s Steam page lists Live Wire as its developer and publisher, so it looks like the PC will get a port of the Switch version. Its feature list also mentions a mode to use scoring rules from Ikaruga, Treasure’s most famous shmup that was originally developed for arcades in 2001 and ported to the Sega Dreamcast a year later. That mode was added to the Xbox 360 version and appeared on the Switch one as well.
There’s no price on the Steam page yet, but it may fall in line with the Switch version, which launched last September at US$19.99. The Xbox 360 version, which is also playable on the Xbox One and Xbox Series, is normally $14.99 when it’s not on sale.
Limited Run Games took preorders on physical printings of the Switch version last October until mid-November. At the time, Limited Run expected standard editions to ship in six months and collector’s editions to ship in nine months, but as of right now — just shy of nine months later — all versions remain in production.
The PC port appears to be a response to fan demand. In a post last September on X, the site formerly known as Twitter, Live Wire responded to a person asking about PC versions of their games by saying that they’d received “a lot” of requests for a PC port.
Neither Live Wire nor Treasure have commented publicly yet on the Steam version on X or on Live Wire’s blog.
The online leaderboards website for Radiant Silvergun that Treasure created last December still only mentions the Switch and the Xbox, but likely will be updated once the Steam version launches.
Danthrax is a contributor to the Shiro Media Group, writing stories for the website when Saturn news breaks. While he was a Sega Genesis kid in the ’90s, he didn’t get a Saturn until 2018. It didn’t take him long to fall in love with the console’s library as well as the fan translation and homebrew scene. He contributed heavily to the Bulk Slash and Stellar Assault SS fan localizations, and has helped as an editor on several other Saturn and Dreamcast fan projects such as Cotton 2, Rainbow Cotton and Sakura Wars Columns 2.
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