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Advent Rising cover art

Advent Rising

GlyphX Games · Ziggurat · 2006-09-14

SteamGOGXboxMicrosoft Store

Action

Modes: Single player

Releases: May 31, 2005 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), May 31, 2005 (Xbox)

A common legend pervades the galaxy-that of a powerful, highly intelligent ancient race that will one day deliver the universe. They are known as Humans. The Advent of Humanity Begins...

0
playing now
78%
positive of 588 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam rating
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
69/100
critic score (4 outlets, IGDB)
80/100
IGDB user rating (28 ratings)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$9.99
steam price (US)

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

Advent Rising is an action-adventure third-person shooter video game developed by GlyphX Games and published by Majesco. The game was released on May 31, 2005, for Xbox and on August 9, 2005, for Microsoft Windows. Its story was created by The Mustard Brothers and featured a script written by science fiction writers Orson Scott Card and Cameron Dayton; the lead sound design was done by Joey Kuras working under Tommy Tallarico Studios.

Health check

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 43% of 10,862 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 24k–47k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 588 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

GOG$2.49-75%
lowest across shops (ITAD)$2.49-75%
GreenManGaming$2.50-75%
Microsoft Store$9.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $0.49 at Steam (2017-06-27) · bundled 3×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $9.99 · on sale 76 of 118 observed days · $2.00 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Players online

302026-08-11 20:00 — 2 players2026-08-12 11:00 — 0 players2026-08-13 03:00 — 0 players2026-08-13 19:00 — 0 players2026-08-14 11:00 — 3 players2026-08-15 03:00 — 2 players2026-08-15 19:00 — 3 players2026-08-16 11:00 — 1 players2026-08-17 03:00 — 0 players2026-08-17 18:00 — 1 players2026-08-18 10:00 — 1 players2026-08-19 02:00 — 1 players2026-08-19 18:00 — 1 players2026-08-20 09:00 — 0 players2026-08-21 01:00 — 3 players2026-08-21 17:00 — 0 players2026-08-22 09:00 — 0 players2026-08-23 00:00 — 0 players2026-08-23 16:00 — 0 players2026-08-24 08:00 — 0 players2026-08-25 00:00 — 1 players2026-08-25 16:00 — 0 players2026-08-26 08:00 — 2 players2026-08-27 00:00 — 1 players2026-08-27 16:00 — 0 players2026-08-28 09:00 — 0 players2026-08-29 01:00 — 0 players2026-08-29 18:00 — 1 players2026-08-30 08:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$9.99$0.492015-01-012026-08-302015-01-01 — best price $4.992015-11-14 — best price $1.192016-04-29 — best price $9.992016-12-20 — best price $0.992018-01-30 — best price $9.992018-12-20 — best price $1.492020-09-18 — best price $5.992021-01-30 — best price $8.892021-03-07 — best price $9.992021-04-19 — best price $9.992021-06-09 — best price $6.492021-09-02 — best price $9.992021-11-17 — best price $8.892022-01-23 — best price $9.992022-04-12 — best price $9.992022-07-12 — best price $6.492022-11-13 — best price $7.342023-02-15 — best price $7.342023-05-13 — best price $9.992023-08-06 — best price $7.892023-11-29 — best price $9.992024-02-08 — best price $6.492024-04-10 — best price $6.492024-07-30 — best price $9.992024-10-09 — best price $7.892024-12-06 — best price $8.992025-03-08 — best price $9.992025-06-18 — best price $2.992025-08-08 — best price $2.992025-09-27 — best price $3.272025-11-25 — best price $2.492026-02-02 — best price $9.992026-04-17 — best price $2.492026-06-12 — best price $2.492026-08-20 — best price $2.502026-08-30 — best price $2.49
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

262452026-05-31 — 67 pageviews2026-06-03 — 62 pageviews2026-06-06 — 45 pageviews2026-06-09 — 67 pageviews2026-06-12 — 54 pageviews2026-06-15 — 89 pageviews2026-06-18 — 51 pageviews2026-06-21 — 78 pageviews2026-06-24 — 55 pageviews2026-06-27 — 65 pageviews2026-06-30 — 55 pageviews2026-07-03 — 66 pageviews2026-07-06 — 159 pageviews2026-07-09 — 78 pageviews2026-07-12 — 97 pageviews2026-07-15 — 63 pageviews2026-07-18 — 77 pageviews2026-07-21 — 63 pageviews2026-07-24 — 71 pageviews2026-07-27 — 97 pageviews2026-07-30 — 72 pageviews2026-08-02 — 68 pageviews2026-08-05 — 114 pageviews2026-08-08 — 72 pageviews2026-08-11 — 89 pageviews2026-08-14 — 59 pageviews2026-08-17 — 64 pageviews2026-08-20 — 86 pageviews2026-08-23 — 82 pageviews2026-08-26 — 71 pageviews2026-08-28 — 78 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam Trading CardsFamily Sharing2 DLC

1 supported languages: English

Player tags

SpaceActionSci-fiClassicStory RichSingleplayerThird PersonGreat SoundtrackThird-Person Shooter

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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