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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!

虫潮 is an Action, Adventure, Casual, Indie game released in 2024, priced at $2.44, with an estimated 100,000 .. 200,000 owners and a Very Positive review sentiment (84% of 2678 reviews).

48
playing now
84%
positive of 2.7k reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
silver
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Verified
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$2.44
steam price (US)

48 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 14:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 48 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 10% of 27,649 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 54k–121k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 2,678 total reviews — how this is computed.

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

12-month high $6.99 · on sale 9 of 18 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

5922026-09-15 00:00 — 6 players2026-09-16 08:00 — 7 players2026-09-17 15:00 — 19 players2026-09-18 23:00 — 3 players2026-09-20 06:00 — 10 players2026-09-21 14:00 — 11 players2026-09-22 22:00 — 3 players2026-09-24 05:00 — 11 players2026-09-25 13:00 — 12 players2026-09-26 20:00 — 4 players2026-09-28 04:00 — 5 players2026-09-29 11:00 — 8 players2026-09-30 19:00 — 4 players2026-10-02 02:00 — 7 players2026-10-03 10:00 — 27 players2026-10-04 18:00 — 17 players2026-10-06 01:00 — 10 players2026-10-07 09:00 — 12 players2026-10-08 16:00 — 7 players2026-10-10 00:00 — 10 players2026-10-11 07:00 — 55 players2026-10-12 15:00 — 59 players2026-10-13 23:00 — 7 players2026-10-14 14:00 — 48 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
1179Jun 2022Aug 2026Jun 2022 — avg 45 · peak 360Aug 2022 — avg 28 · peak 196Oct 2022 — avg 36 · peak 304Dec 2022 — avg 19 · peak 117Feb 2023 — avg 55 · peak 385Apr 2023 — avg 64 · peak 285Jun 2023 — avg 22 · peak 62Aug 2023 — avg 63 · peak 382Oct 2023 — avg 28 · peak 123Dec 2023 — avg 29 · peak 104Feb 2024 — avg 24 · peak 82Apr 2024 — avg 23 · peak 92Jun 2024 — avg 16 · peak 60Aug 2024 — avg 9 · peak 29Oct 2024 — avg 25 · peak 84Dec 2024 — avg 19 · peak 58Feb 2025 — avg 20 · peak 85Apr 2025 — avg 17 · peak 54Jun 2025 — avg 10 · peak 31Aug 2025 — avg 11 · peak 42Oct 2025 — avg 24 · peak 77Dec 2025 — avg 15 · peak 49Feb 2026 — avg 17 · peak 57Apr 2026 — avg 18 · peak 56Jun 2026 — avg 13 · peak 45Aug 2026 — avg 30 · peak 131
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

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

Where its players are

Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.

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.