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Aliens Go Home Run cover art

Aliens Go Home Run

ANIM•ACE · 2017-01-27

Steam

ActionIndie

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Side view

Releases: Jan 27, 2017 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

A combination of Breakout, Shoot Em Up, and Baseball, Aliens Go Home Run puts you in the shoes of a young baseball player versus a horde of invading aliens. Play ball!

87%
positive of 84 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
85/100
critic score (1 outlets, IGDB)
70/100
IGDB user rating (1 ratings)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$3.99
steam price (US)

Aliens Go Home Run puts you in the shoes of Sally, a young girl with a passion for baseball. When she hits a home run so hard that it flies into space, it crashes into a faraway planet and creates a crater in the process. Now, the aliens from that planet are invading Earth, and its up to Sally to save the day!(Storyline via IGDB)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 8 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity up 100% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 45% of 23,901 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 2.1k–5.0k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 84 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $1.59 at Steam (2018-12-20) · bundled 1×via IsThereAnyDeal

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
4420172026Week of 2017-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-02-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2017-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2017-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$3.99$1.592017-01-282019-01-032017-01-28 — best price $3.592017-02-03 — best price $3.992017-04-03 — best price $3.392017-04-10 — best price $3.992017-06-05 — best price $3.592017-06-12 — best price $3.992017-06-22 — best price $2.392017-07-05 — best price $3.992017-08-07 — best price $3.192017-08-14 — best price $3.992017-10-26 — best price $2.672017-11-01 — best price $3.992017-11-22 — best price $2.792017-11-28 — best price $3.992017-12-21 — best price $1.992018-01-04 — best price $3.992018-01-22 — best price $2.992018-01-29 — best price $3.992018-02-15 — best price $2.672018-02-19 — best price $3.992018-03-26 — best price $2.392018-04-02 — best price $3.992018-04-20 — best price $3.992018-05-18 — best price $2.992018-05-21 — best price $3.992018-06-21 — best price $1.992018-07-05 — best price $3.992018-07-16 — best price $2.392018-07-23 — best price $3.992018-11-21 — best price $1.992018-11-28 — best price $3.992018-12-20 — best price $1.592019-01-03 — best price $3.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam Trading CardsSteam WorkshopSteam CloudSteam LeaderboardsIncludes level editorFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Player tags

2DIndieRetroActionAliensArcadeCartoonCartoonyColorfulController

Census log

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

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