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1993 Space Machine cover art

1993 Space Machine

Exceed · Aurora Punks · 2016-03-28

Steam

ActionIndie

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative, Split screen · Perspectives: Bird view / Isometric

Releases: Mar 28, 2016 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Mar 28, 2016 (Mac)

Space shooters never die. 1993 is a testament to that. 1993 is a classic shoot em up celebrating games like Gradius, R-Type and Life Force.

70%
positive of 386 reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
70/100
IGDB user rating (4 ratings)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Verified
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$11.99
steam price (US)
1993 Space Machine is a shoot 'em up video game released for Windows and Mac in 2016. The game was originally planned for release as Shenandoah: Daughter of the Stars on the Amiga in 1993 before the project was abandoned.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 11 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 58% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 33% of 18,250 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 9.7k–23k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 386 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.83 at Steam (2024-07-15) · bundled 3×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $11.99 · on sale 6 of 12 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
9920162026Week of 2016-12-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2017-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$12.99$0.832016-03-282026-07-262016-03-28 — best price $11.692016-06-17 — best price $8.992016-09-22 — best price $8.992016-12-22 — best price $2.692017-04-13 — best price $4.042017-05-17 — best price $8.992017-09-21 — best price $8.992018-09-13 — best price $11.992019-12-18 — best price $11.992020-01-13 — best price $2.992020-01-23 — best price $3.592020-05-07 — best price $4.792020-06-25 — best price $5.992020-10-29 — best price $1.192020-12-02 — best price $1.192021-02-11 — best price $5.992021-06-24 — best price $3.472021-08-06 — best price $11.992021-11-01 — best price $11.992022-01-05 — best price $11.992022-02-21 — best price $11.992022-04-04 — best price $11.992022-08-30 — best price $11.992022-11-29 — best price $11.992023-01-05 — best price $11.992023-03-08 — best price $11.992023-04-21 — best price $11.992023-07-13 — best price $11.992023-10-02 — best price $11.992024-02-19 — best price $11.992024-04-01 — best price $11.992024-07-11 — best price $11.992024-12-04 — best price $11.992025-02-17 — best price $11.992025-07-10 — best price $11.992025-10-06 — best price $11.992026-01-05 — best price $11.992026-07-09 — best price $11.992026-07-26 — best price $11.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

2302026-06-25 — 0 pageviews2026-06-28 — 2 pageviews2026-07-01 — 0 pageviews2026-07-04 — 3 pageviews2026-07-07 — 0 pageviews2026-07-10 — 2 pageviews2026-07-13 — 5 pageviews2026-07-16 — 1 pageviews2026-07-19 — 2 pageviews2026-07-22 — 2 pageviews2026-07-25 — 0 pageviews2026-07-28 — 6 pageviews2026-07-31 — 1 pageviews2026-08-03 — 1 pageviews2026-08-06 — 2 pageviews2026-08-09 — 3 pageviews2026-08-12 — 4 pageviews2026-08-15 — 0 pageviews2026-08-18 — 0 pageviews2026-08-21 — 4 pageviews2026-08-24 — 0 pageviews2026-08-27 — 2 pageviews2026-08-30 — 3 pageviews2026-09-02 — 4 pageviews2026-09-05 — 3 pageviews2026-09-08 — 1 pageviews2026-09-11 — 0 pageviews2026-09-14 — 23 pageviews2026-09-17 — 3 pageviews2026-09-21 — 5 pageviews2026-09-22 — 1 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

10
achievements tracked
7.8%
earned "Hero"
2.7%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxFull controller supportSingle-playerMulti-playerCo-opShared/Split Screen Co-opShared/Split ScreenSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam Trading CardsRemote Play TogetherFamily Sharing1 DLC

2 supported languages: English, Japanese

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2021-11-24 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)3589%10
PS4 (PlayStation)550%11
PS4 (PlayStation)510%11

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

2DCo-opRetroActionArcadeSci-fiShooterDifficultMultiplayerScore Attack

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

Players also track

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Similarity via IGDB.

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