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Alien Hominid Invasion cover art

Alien Hominid Invasion

The Behemoth · 2023-11-01

SteamPlayStation StoreMicrosoft Store

Action

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative · Perspectives: Side view

Releases: Nov 01, 2023 (Nintendo Switch), Nov 01, 2023 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Nov 01, 2023 (Xbox One), Nov 01, 2023 (Xbox Series X|S), Jun 10, 2025 (PlayStation 4), Jun 10, 2025 (PlayStation 5)

Old friends and bitter enemies await as you invade Earth alongside a Mothership full of alien friends! Blast, beam, and bite your way through an endless swarm of enemies as you and up to three of your fellow hominids cause mayhem with a huge arsenal of weapons, mutations, and acrobatic maneuvers.

Alien Hominid Invasion is a $19.99 Action game released in 2023, estimated to have 200,000 .. 500,000 owners and a Very Positive sentiment across 1735 reviews.

1
playing now
89%
positive of 1.7k reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
43/100
IGDB user rating (6 ratings)
4.75★
PlayStation Store rating (139 ratings)
13h
time to beat (IGDB)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$19.99
steam price (US)

1 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 13:00 UTC (census sample)

Alien Hominid Invasion is a 2023 run and gun video game developed by The Behemoth. It serves as a sequel/reimagining of The Behemoth's 2004 video game Alien Hominid, originally released as a demo on Newgrounds on August 7, 2002.

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 1 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 60 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~8/week).
  • · Review velocity down 34% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (1,004 reviews).
  • · Top 12% of 27,751 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-30

Estimated sales: 35k–78k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 1,732 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

Microsoft Store$19.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $13.99 at Steam (2026-06-17)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $19.99 · on sale 5 of 15 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
91591520232026Week of 2023-11-01: 915 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 89 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 97 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 70 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 28 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 37 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 39 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 42 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 6 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

702026-09-15 14:00 — 2 players2026-09-16 22:00 — 7 players2026-09-18 06:00 — 3 players2026-09-19 13:00 — 4 players2026-09-20 21:00 — 7 players2026-09-22 05:00 — 4 players2026-09-23 12:00 — 2 players2026-09-24 20:00 — 5 players2026-09-26 03:00 — 5 players2026-09-27 11:00 — 4 players2026-09-28 18:00 — 1 players2026-09-30 02:00 — 7 players2026-10-01 09:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 17:00 — 0 players2026-10-04 01:00 — 1 players2026-10-05 08:00 — 2 players2026-10-06 16:00 — 4 players2026-10-07 23:00 — 4 players2026-10-09 07:00 — 1 players2026-10-10 14:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 22:00 — 1 players2026-10-13 06:00 — 1 players2026-10-14 13:00 — 1 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
1283Nov 2023Aug 2026Nov 2023 — avg 128 · peak 625Dec 2023 — avg 47 · peak 150Jan 2024 — avg 32 · peak 114Feb 2024 — avg 15 · peak 51Mar 2024 — avg 16 · peak 52Apr 2024 — avg 13 · peak 70May 2024 — avg 21 · peak 98Jun 2024 — avg 9 · peak 30Jul 2024 — avg 19 · peak 79Aug 2024 — avg 14 · peak 43Sep 2024 — avg 8 · peak 33Oct 2024 — avg 6 · peak 20Nov 2024 — avg 5 · peak 22Dec 2024 — avg 7 · peak 27Jan 2025 — avg 7 · peak 20Feb 2025 — avg 6 · peak 22Mar 2025 — avg 5 · peak 21Apr 2025 — avg 5 · peak 15May 2025 — avg 6 · peak 27Jun 2025 — avg 5 · peak 14Jul 2025 — avg 6 · peak 18Aug 2025 — avg 5 · peak 21Sep 2025 — avg 4 · peak 17Oct 2025 — avg 3 · peak 12Nov 2025 — avg 4 · peak 13Dec 2025 — avg 5 · peak 14Jan 2026 — avg 4 · peak 14Feb 2026 — avg 3 · peak 11Mar 2026 — avg 3 · peak 12Apr 2026 — avg 3 · peak 11May 2026 — avg 3 · peak 9Jun 2026 — avg 5 · peak 17Jul 2026 — avg 5 · peak 17Aug 2026 — avg 3 · peak 12
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$19.99$9.992023-11-012026-10-092023-11-01 — best price $19.992024-01-04 — best price $19.992024-03-24 — best price $19.992024-05-08 — best price $19.992024-07-11 — best price $19.992024-07-29 — best price $19.992024-09-02 — best price $19.992024-12-04 — best price $19.992025-01-02 — best price $19.992025-02-17 — best price $19.992025-03-20 — best price $19.992025-05-11 — best price $19.992025-07-10 — best price $19.992025-07-23 — best price $19.992025-09-02 — best price $19.992025-10-06 — best price $19.992025-12-01 — best price $19.992026-01-05 — best price $19.992026-03-26 — best price $19.992026-07-09 — best price $19.992026-09-04 — best price $9.992026-09-18 — best price $19.992026-10-02 — best price $19.992026-10-09 — best price $19.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

155322026-05-30 — 53 pageviews2026-06-03 — 43 pageviews2026-06-07 — 44 pageviews2026-06-11 — 34 pageviews2026-06-15 — 32 pageviews2026-06-19 — 43 pageviews2026-06-23 — 48 pageviews2026-06-27 — 39 pageviews2026-07-01 — 53 pageviews2026-07-05 — 49 pageviews2026-07-09 — 86 pageviews2026-07-13 — 49 pageviews2026-07-17 — 61 pageviews2026-07-21 — 42 pageviews2026-07-25 — 47 pageviews2026-07-29 — 46 pageviews2026-08-02 — 57 pageviews2026-08-06 — 39 pageviews2026-08-10 — 54 pageviews2026-08-14 — 51 pageviews2026-08-18 — 42 pageviews2026-08-22 — 56 pageviews2026-08-26 — 44 pageviews2026-08-30 — 58 pageviews2026-09-03 — 49 pageviews2026-09-07 — 68 pageviews2026-09-11 — 63 pageviews2026-09-15 — 39 pageviews2026-09-19 — 38 pageviews2026-09-23 — 56 pageviews2026-09-27 — 49 pageviews2026-10-01 — 110 pageviews2026-10-05 — 52 pageviews2026-10-08 — 74 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

60+
achievements tracked
93.7%
earned "First Contact"
17.8%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerMulti-playerCo-opOnline Co-opShared/Split Screen Co-opShared/Split ScreenSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam Trading CardsGamepad Recommended

10 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)1,4361%66
Xbox Series, Xbox One (Xbox)4533%65
PS5 (PlayStation)1456%66
PS4 (PlayStation)2317%66
Switch (Nintendo)220%0

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

Player tags

PvERPGCo-opActionArcadeCasualNonlinearBeat 'em upMultiplayerOnline Co-Op

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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