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Alien Attack cover art

Alien Attack

Alien Jellyfish · 2016-06-21

Steam

ActionAdventureCasualIndieSimulation

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative

Releases: Jun 21, 2016 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

You are a space trooper. Your crew finished the cleaning mission and left you alone by accident. Now you are surrounded by aliens. Persist them as long as you can.

Alien Attack is an Action, Adventure, Casual, and Indie game released in 2016, priced at $0.69, with a Mostly Positive review sentiment (77% of 243 reviews) and an estimated owner base of 50,000 .. 100,000.

0
playing now
77%
positive of 243 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
70/100
IGDB user rating (1 ratings)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$0.69
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 19:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 6 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 33% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 27% of 27,604 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-01

Estimated sales: 6.1k–15k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 243 total reviews — how this is computed.

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
101020162026Week of 2016-06-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2016-07-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2016-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2016-11-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2016-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2016-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-01-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2017-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2017-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2017-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-04-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2017-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-05-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2017-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2017-06-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2017-06-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2017-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2017-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-08-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2017-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-09-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2017-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-11-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2017-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2018-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

002026-09-15 04:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 12:00 — 0 players2026-09-17 20:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 03:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 11:00 — 0 players2026-09-21 18:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 02:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 09:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 17:00 — 0 players2026-09-27 00:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 08:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 15:00 — 0 players2026-09-30 23:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 06:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 14:00 — 0 players2026-10-04 22:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 06:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 13:00 — 0 players2026-10-08 21:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 04:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 12:00 — 0 players2026-10-12 19:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 03:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 19:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$1.99$0.492016-06-212021-03-082016-06-21 — best price $1.192016-07-13 — best price $0.992016-09-12 — best price $1.992016-11-07 — best price $0.492016-11-29 — best price $1.992017-01-09 — best price $0.492017-03-20 — best price $1.992017-04-05 — best price $0.492017-07-05 — best price $1.992017-09-11 — best price $0.492017-11-01 — best price $1.992017-11-22 — best price $0.492018-01-04 — best price $1.992018-02-15 — best price $0.492018-03-26 — best price $1.992018-05-21 — best price $0.492018-07-05 — best price $1.992018-10-08 — best price $0.492018-11-01 — best price $1.992018-12-10 — best price $0.492019-01-03 — best price $1.992019-02-18 — best price $1.992019-06-03 — best price $0.592019-07-09 — best price $1.992019-09-23 — best price $0.592019-11-01 — best price $1.992019-11-26 — best price $0.592020-01-02 — best price $1.992020-01-23 — best price $0.592020-03-09 — best price $1.992020-06-08 — best price $0.592020-07-09 — best price $1.992020-09-14 — best price $0.592020-11-02 — best price $1.992020-11-25 — best price $0.992021-01-05 — best price $1.992021-02-11 — best price $0.992021-03-08 — best price $1.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

23
achievements tracked
7.9%
earned "Die!"
3.3%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerMulti-playerCo-opShared/Split Screen Co-opShared/Split ScreenSteam AchievementsSteam Trading CardsPartial Controller SupportSteam LeaderboardsRemote Play Together1 DLC

11 supported languages: English, Russian, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Portuguese - Portugal, Japanese, Ukrainian

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2017-02-27 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)81717%23

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

Player tags

2DIndieActionArcadeCasualAdventureDifficultSimulationShoot 'Em UpPixel Graphics

Census log

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

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