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Alien Scumbags cover art

Alien Scumbags

Monster Finger Games · 2020-06-17

Steam

ActionAdventure

Modes: Single player

Releases: Jun 17, 2020 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Alien Scumbags is a sci-fi action platformer with a big slice of horror and a stack of pop culture references. You'll run, hide and kill across several levels, collect items from capsule machines and unlock characters.

97%
positive of 118 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$5.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 6 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 80% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 48% of 18,678 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 2.4k–5.3k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 118 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.71 at Steam (2023-12-21)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $5.99 · on sale 4 of 8 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
131320202026Week of 2020-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$8.99$0.712018-07-242026-07-092018-07-24 — best price $4.992018-11-23 — best price $1.252019-12-01 — best price $4.992020-04-14 — best price $5.992020-06-17 — best price $5.992020-08-26 — best price $5.942020-09-15 — best price $6.992020-11-25 — best price $5.242020-12-22 — best price $3.492021-02-11 — best price $4.892021-04-21 — best price $8.992021-06-24 — best price $4.492021-11-01 — best price $8.992021-11-24 — best price $6.742022-01-05 — best price $8.992022-03-10 — best price $6.292022-06-23 — best price $1.792022-08-08 — best price $8.992022-11-22 — best price $4.492023-01-05 — best price $8.992023-05-15 — best price $3.592023-07-09 — best price $8.992023-11-02 — best price $5.992024-03-21 — best price $2.392024-10-28 — best price $1.792025-01-02 — best price $5.992025-06-26 — best price $1.792025-10-06 — best price $5.992026-03-19 — best price $2.992026-07-09 — best price $5.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

20
achievements tracked
43.8%
earned "This is my boom stick"
9.3%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam LeaderboardsFamily Sharing

Player tags

2DGoreFunnyActionArcadeHorrorSci-fiParody ControllerDark Humor

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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