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Alpha Prime

Black Element · Bohemia Interactive · 2007-11-07

Steam

Action

Modes: Single player

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.

0
playing now
55%
positive of 1.5k reviews
Mixed
steam rating
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)
$3.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 03:00 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

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  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 29% of 10,936 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 61k–122k copies

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

Current store prices

lowest across shops (ITAD)$3.99-20%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

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

12-month high $4.99 · on sale 12 of 23 observed days (census price snapshots)

Players online

202026-08-06 22:00 — 1 players2026-08-07 06:00 — 2 players2026-08-07 14:00 — 0 players2026-08-07 22:00 — 0 players2026-08-08 06:00 — 1 players2026-08-08 14:00 — 0 players2026-08-08 22:00 — 0 players2026-08-09 06:00 — 0 players2026-08-09 14:00 — 0 players2026-08-09 22:00 — 1 players2026-08-10 06:00 — 0 players2026-08-10 15:00 — 0 players2026-08-10 23:00 — 0 players2026-08-11 07:00 — 0 players2026-08-11 15:00 — 1 players2026-08-12 22:00 — 0 players2026-08-14 06:00 — 0 players2026-08-15 14:00 — 1 players2026-08-16 22:00 — 2 players2026-08-18 05:00 — 0 players2026-08-19 13:00 — 0 players2026-08-20 20:00 — 1 players2026-08-22 04:00 — 0 players2026-08-23 11:00 — 0 players2026-08-24 19:00 — 1 players2026-08-26 03:00 — 0 players2026-08-27 11:00 — 1 players2026-08-28 19:00 — 1 players2026-08-30 03:00 — 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

2722026-05-31 — 15 pageviews2026-06-03 — 7 pageviews2026-06-06 — 12 pageviews2026-06-09 — 11 pageviews2026-06-12 — 7 pageviews2026-06-15 — 11 pageviews2026-06-18 — 20 pageviews2026-06-21 — 20 pageviews2026-06-24 — 12 pageviews2026-06-27 — 8 pageviews2026-06-30 — 9 pageviews2026-07-03 — 23 pageviews2026-07-06 — 9 pageviews2026-07-09 — 13 pageviews2026-07-12 — 12 pageviews2026-07-15 — 9 pageviews2026-07-18 — 6 pageviews2026-07-21 — 11 pageviews2026-07-24 — 12 pageviews2026-07-27 — 5 pageviews2026-07-30 — 8 pageviews2026-08-02 — 7 pageviews2026-08-05 — 11 pageviews2026-08-08 — 13 pageviews2026-08-11 — 16 pageviews2026-08-14 — 12 pageviews2026-08-17 — 10 pageviews2026-08-20 — 12 pageviews2026-08-23 — 18 pageviews2026-08-26 — 7 pageviews2026-08-28 — 10 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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