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虫潮 cover art

虫潮

Parallel Portal · 2024-09-11

Steam

ActionAdventureCasualIndieRPG

Modes: Single player

Releases: Jun 01, 2022 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

The insect swarm is a swarm consists of millions of alien insects, and you, as the only survival on this barren planet, will have to fight against them dauntlessly. Good luck!

86
playing now
84%
positive of 2.6k reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
silver
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$2.44
steam price (US)

86 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 05:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 86 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 158 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~20/week).
  • · Review velocity down 7% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 22% of 10,903 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 53k–119k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 2,641 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

lowest across shops (ITAD)$2.44-65%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $2.44 at Steam (2025-09-29)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $6.99 · on sale 11 of 22 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
21121120222026Week of 2022-06-01: 211 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 40 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 57 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 47 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 56 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 73 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 94 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 46 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 39 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 47 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 55 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 56 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 40 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 40 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 127 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 17 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 82 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 16 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 40 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 32 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 133 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 22 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 38 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 36 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 153 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 58 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 38 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 48 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 37 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 37 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 32 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 4 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.

Players online

10912026-08-11 19:00 — 6 players2026-08-12 11:00 — 7 players2026-08-13 03:00 — 3 players2026-08-13 19:00 — 4 players2026-08-14 10:00 — 9 players2026-08-15 02:00 — 9 players2026-08-15 18:00 — 12 players2026-08-16 10:00 — 17 players2026-08-17 02:00 — 11 players2026-08-17 18:00 — 4 players2026-08-18 10:00 — 8 players2026-08-19 01:00 — 4 players2026-08-19 17:00 — 6 players2026-08-20 09:00 — 5 players2026-08-21 01:00 — 2 players2026-08-21 16:00 — 14 players2026-08-22 08:00 — 12 players2026-08-23 00:00 — 1 players2026-08-23 16:00 — 8 players2026-08-24 07:00 — 34 players2026-08-24 23:00 — 19 players2026-08-25 15:00 — 90 players2026-08-26 05:00 — 60 players2026-08-26 21:00 — 20 players2026-08-27 13:00 — 92 players2026-08-28 05:00 — 50 players2026-08-28 21:00 — 35 players2026-08-29 13:00 — 109 players2026-08-30 05:00 — 86 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$10.99$2.442022-06-012026-08-232022-06-01 — best price $9.892022-08-22 — best price $7.492022-10-12 — best price $9.992022-11-23 — best price $4.992023-01-05 — best price $9.992023-02-22 — best price $8.992023-04-07 — best price $7.992023-06-04 — best price $9.992023-07-27 — best price $9.992023-10-02 — best price $8.992023-12-21 — best price $6.292024-01-25 — best price $8.992024-03-14 — best price $6.742024-04-17 — best price $8.992024-06-27 — best price $6.742024-07-26 — best price $8.992024-10-29 — best price $6.742024-12-04 — best price $8.992025-01-03 — best price $4.492025-03-02 — best price $8.992025-04-01 — best price $4.492025-05-15 — best price $4.892025-07-24 — best price $6.992025-09-29 — best price $2.442025-10-21 — best price $6.992025-12-18 — best price $2.442026-03-04 — best price $6.992026-04-03 — best price $2.442026-05-31 — best price $6.992026-07-10 — best price $2.442026-08-23 — best price $2.44
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

20
achievements tracked
41.7%
earned "New Pilot"
25.2%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam CloudFamily Sharing

12 supported languages: Simplified Chinese, English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Russian, Japanese, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Portuguese - Portugal, Korean

Player tags

RPG2.5DMechsFlightShooterTop-DownIsometricBeat 'em upExplorationShoot 'Em Up

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.