Is Cannon Fodder on Steam?

No. Cannon Fodder is not distributed on Steam, so there is no Steam Charts or SteamDB player count for it. Its live popularity is tracked here via Twitch viewership instead.

What platforms is Cannon Fodder on?

Cannon Fodder is available on Acorn Archimedes, Amiga CD32, BlackBerry OS, Super Nintendo Entertainment System, Linux, Sega Mega Drive/Genesis, Atari ST/STE, PC (Microsoft Windows), 3DO Interactive Multiplayer, Mac, DOS, Amiga, Atari Jaguar, Legacy Mobile Device.

When did Cannon Fodder release?

Cannon Fodder was first released on January 9, 1993.

Cannon Fodder

Jan 9, 1993ShooterStrategyAcorn ArchimedesAmiga CD32BlackBerry OSSuper Nintendo Entertainment SystemLinux

Cannon Fodder — frequently asked questions

Is Cannon Fodder on Steam?: No. Cannon Fodder is not distributed on Steam, so there is no Steam Charts or SteamDB player count for it. Its live popularity is tracked here via Twitch viewership instead.
What platforms is Cannon Fodder on?: Cannon Fodder is available on Acorn Archimedes, Amiga CD32, BlackBerry OS, Super Nintendo Entertainment System, Linux, Sega Mega Drive/Genesis, Atari ST/STE, PC (Microsoft Windows), 3DO Interactive Multiplayer, Mac, DOS, Amiga, Atari Jaguar, Legacy Mobile Device.
When did Cannon Fodder release?: Cannon Fodder was first released on January 9, 1993.

About Cannon Fodder

Cannon Fodder is an action-strategy shoot 'em up game developed by Sensible Software and published by Virgin Interactive. The game is military-themed and based on shooting action but with a strategy game-style control system. The player directs troops through numerous missions, battling enemy infantry, vehicles and installations. Cannon Fodder has a darkly humorous tone which commentators variously praised and condemned. Its creators intended it to convey an anti-war message, which some reviewers recognised, but the Daily Star and a number of public figures derided the game. In other respects, reviewers highly praised the game, which widely achieved scores of over 90% in Amiga magazines. Amiga Action awarded it an unprecedented score, calling it the best game of the year.

Summary via IGDB.

Cannon Fodder on Wikipedia

Cannon Fodder is a series of war themed action games developed by Sensible Software, initially released as Cannon Fodder for the Amiga. Only two games in the series were created by Sensible, but were converted to most active systems at the time of release. A sequel, Cannon Fodder 2, was released in 1994 for Amiga and MS-DOS. A third game, Cannon Fodder 3, was made by a Russian developer and released in English in 2012.

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA 4.0).

Game details

Developer: Sensible Software
Publisher: Virgin Interactive Entertainment, Inc.
Game modes: Single player
Themes: Action, Comedy, Warfare

Details via IGDB.

Reception

IGDB rating

81/100

from 64 ratings

Collector value & authenticity

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Loose

$45

Complete

$65

Sealed

$76

Region: NA+EU
Released: 1995
Authenticity: Low

Never re-released — the original cartridge is the only way to playLow counterfeit risk

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Electronic Gaming Monthly's Best Atari Jaguar Game of 1995 — priced like filler.

Sensible Software's squad-tactics classic: direct a tiny squad through top-down missions where cover matters, approach angles matter, and losing a man is permanent. Every dead soldier gets a headstone on a hill outside the recruitment hut, and the hill fills up while the theme song stays jaunty — Sensible always insisted it was an anti-war game, and the mechanism is making death cheap, funny, and cumulative until the accumulation stops being funny.

EGM named it Best Atari Jaguar Game of 1995, and Next Generation's reviewer called it the best game on the platform outright. The consistent criticisms were fair: the sprites are very small, and without mouse control the Jaguar pad makes precise unit direction slower than the Amiga original.

Before you buy

Common and inexpensive — which is the anomaly: a Game of the Year winner priced as catalogue filler, and alongside Power Drive Rally the most mispriced cart on the platform. Virgin packaging, not Atari. No repro risk.