Is Waterworld on Steam?

No. Waterworld 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 Waterworld on?

Waterworld is available on Virtual Boy.

When did Waterworld release?

Waterworld was first released on December 21, 1995.

Waterworld

Dec 21, 1995ShooterArcadeVirtual Boy

Waterworld — frequently asked questions

Is Waterworld on Steam?: No. Waterworld 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 Waterworld on?: Waterworld is available on Virtual Boy.
When did Waterworld release?: Waterworld was first released on December 21, 1995.

About Waterworld

The sun. For millions of years the source of life. But for one planet the source of it's demise. The temperature climbed, the vast pools of ice at it's poles melted, and the oceans rose. Centuries later, few people remained on this planet, once called Earth. A lone mariner sails the expanse of water, trading to survive. For survival, is all these people do, in this place they know only as Waterworld.

Summary via IGDB.

Waterworld on Wikipedia

Waterworld is a 1995 American post-apocalyptic action film, directed by Kevin Reynolds and co-written by Peter Rader and David Twohy. It was based on Rader's original 1986 screenplay and stars Kevin Costner, who also produced it with Charles Gordon and John Davis, and distributed by Universal Pictures.

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

Game details

Developer: Ocean of America
Publisher: Ocean of America
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer
Themes: Action
Series: Waterworld
Official site: Visit

Details via IGDB.

Collector value & authenticity

Virtual Boy · PriceCharting sold data · Verified 2026-08-22

Loose

$223

Complete

$434

Sealed

$631

Release record

Territory	Date	Serial	Barcode	MSRP
North America	21 Dec 1995	VUE-VWEE-USA	020295130015	$39.95
Mexico Gamela México	—	VUE-VWEE-USA	020295130015	—

North America: North America only — never released in Japan. The 020295 barcode prefix is Ocean's; Nintendo-published VB titles use 045496.

Community score: 40/100
Region: NA
Released: 1995
Authenticity: Med

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

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A bad game attached to a bad film on a dying console — a perfect artifact of 1995, and never coming to Switch.

Ocean's tie-in to the Kevin Costner flop, released for a console already on its way out, into a market that had rejected the movie. It is a repetitive top-down boat shooter that barely uses the 3D display, and its notoriety — bad game, bad film, bad hardware, stacked on one cartridge — has become part of the appeal. The print run was tiny because retailers wanted nothing to do with it, and that scarcity is the price. With Universal holding the film rights and Ocean of America long gone, it is about as permanently cartridge-only as a game gets.

What the press said at the time

Nintendo Power	November 1995	11.8/20
GamePro	May 1996	2.5/5
VB Memorial Guidebook	1997	30.5/100

Nintendo Power ran an exclusive review in the same issue that launched its reader-voted Virtual Boy chart — and 11.8/20 is the lowest score it gave any game on the platform. Waterworld never placed in that chart across its entire run, yet it is today the second-most-valuable North American cartridge.

Worth knowing

It will probably never be re-released. The film licence sits with Universal, not with a games company, and Waterworld is one of a small group of Virtual Boy titles absent from Nintendo Classics for rights reasons rather than scheduling. For now the cartridge is the only way to play it.