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Alpha Prime

Black Element · Bohemia Interactive · 2007-11-07

Steam

Action

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: First person

Releases: May 01, 2007 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Somewhere in deep space, at an apparently abandoned mining base on the asteriod Alpha Prime, something has gone terribly wrong. Miners were warned that the hubbardium they were mining was too dangerous, but the lure of unimaginable wealth was too strong.

Alpha Prime is an Action game released in 2007, priced at $3.99, with an estimated 200,000 .. 500,000 owners and a Mixed review sentiment (55% of 1525 reviews).

0
playing now
56%
positive of 1.5k reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
64/100
critic score (2 outlets, IGDB)
53/100
IGDB user rating (13 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$3.99
steam price (US)

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

Alpha Prime is a first-person shooter video game developed by Black Element Software and released in 2006–2007. The script for the game's story was written by Ondřej Neff, and the game is built upon Black Element's proprietary Enforce 2 Engine. Alpha Prime was initially released on Steam and, as of August 30, 2011, it also became available on the cloud gaming service OnLive.

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 30 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~4/week).
  • · Review velocity down 17% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 12% of 27,649 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-31

Estimated sales: 61k–122k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 1,525 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.49 at Steam (2014-02-28) · bundled 2×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $4.99 · on sale 10 of 19 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
9920172026Week of 2017-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2017-12-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2018-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-02-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2018-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2018-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2018-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2018-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2019-01-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-05-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2019-08-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2019-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-12-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-02-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 2 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

202026-09-14 22:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 07:00 — 1 players2026-09-17 14:00 — 0 players2026-09-18 22:00 — 1 players2026-09-20 05:00 — 0 players2026-09-21 13:00 — 1 players2026-09-22 20:00 — 1 players2026-09-24 04:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 11:00 — 1 players2026-09-26 19:00 — 1 players2026-09-28 02:00 — 1 players2026-09-29 10:00 — 0 players2026-09-30 17:00 — 1 players2026-10-02 01:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 08:00 — 1 players2026-10-04 17:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 00:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 08:00 — 0 players2026-10-08 15:00 — 0 players2026-10-09 23:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 06:00 — 0 players2026-10-12 14:00 — 0 players2026-10-13 21:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 13:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$4.99$0.992015-01-012026-08-262015-01-01 — best price $0.992015-06-22 — best price $4.992015-12-22 — best price $0.992016-05-16 — best price $4.992016-12-22 — best price $0.992017-06-29 — best price $1.002017-09-30 — best price $4.992017-12-11 — best price $4.992018-03-20 — best price $1.002018-04-30 — best price $4.992018-10-29 — best price $1.002018-11-27 — best price $4.992019-02-04 — best price $0.992019-05-21 — best price $4.992019-07-18 — best price $0.992019-10-17 — best price $1.002019-11-11 — best price $0.992020-01-02 — best price $4.992020-09-10 — best price $0.992020-12-01 — best price $4.992021-06-24 — best price $0.992022-01-05 — best price $4.992022-09-08 — best price $0.992022-11-29 — best price $4.992023-03-16 — best price $0.992023-11-20 — best price $4.992024-01-22 — best price $0.992024-04-22 — best price $4.992024-09-12 — best price $0.992024-12-04 — best price $4.992025-03-03 — best price $0.992025-05-09 — best price $4.992025-07-26 — best price $0.992025-10-06 — best price $4.992025-12-18 — best price $0.992026-03-11 — best price $4.992026-06-18 — best price $0.992026-08-26 — best price $3.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

3232026-05-31 — 15 pageviews2026-06-04 — 8 pageviews2026-06-08 — 12 pageviews2026-06-12 — 7 pageviews2026-06-16 — 15 pageviews2026-06-20 — 19 pageviews2026-06-24 — 12 pageviews2026-06-28 — 11 pageviews2026-07-02 — 6 pageviews2026-07-06 — 9 pageviews2026-07-10 — 13 pageviews2026-07-14 — 9 pageviews2026-07-18 — 6 pageviews2026-07-22 — 8 pageviews2026-07-26 — 23 pageviews2026-07-30 — 8 pageviews2026-08-03 — 11 pageviews2026-08-07 — 20 pageviews2026-08-11 — 16 pageviews2026-08-15 — 9 pageviews2026-08-19 — 7 pageviews2026-08-23 — 18 pageviews2026-08-27 — 6 pageviews2026-08-31 — 21 pageviews2026-09-04 — 15 pageviews2026-09-08 — 8 pageviews2026-09-12 — 12 pageviews2026-09-16 — 10 pageviews2026-09-20 — 10 pageviews2026-09-24 — 13 pageviews2026-09-28 — 8 pageviews2026-10-02 — 8 pageviews2026-10-06 — 32 pageviews2026-10-10 — 28 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Player tags

FPSGoreSpaceActionSci-fiShooterViolentDifficultFirst-PersonSingleplayer

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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