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Alteric cover art

Alteric

goonswarm · 2016-07-13

SteamPlayStation Store

AdventureIndie

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Side view

Releases: Jul 13, 2016 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Jul 13, 2016 (Mac), Mar 30, 2018 (Nintendo Switch), Oct 11, 2017 (PlayStation Vita), Oct 11, 2017 (PlayStation 4), Mar 30, 2018 (Xbox One)

Jump through boiling lava; run from perilous traps and saw blades; glide and climb through catacombs; fall into the abyss and overcome gravity. And don't forget to switch to a parallel dimension in time, because it’s Alteric!

Alteric is an Adventure and Indie game released in 2016, priced at $3.99, with an estimated owner base of 20,000 .. 50,000 and a Mixed sentiment (69% of 127 reviews).

0
playing now
69%
positive of 127 reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
50/100
IGDB user rating (3 ratings)
3.02★
PlayStation Store rating (128 ratings)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$3.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 08:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 7 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 12% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 36% of 28,771 Adventure games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-01

Estimated sales: 3.2k–7.6k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 127 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.79 at Steam (2017-07-31) · bundled 1×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $3.99 · on sale 3 of 6 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
121220162026Week of 2016-07-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2016-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2016-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-08-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2016-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2016-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2016-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2017-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-08-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2017-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2017-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

002026-09-15 08:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 17:00 — 0 players2026-09-18 00:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 08:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 15:00 — 0 players2026-09-21 23:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 07:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 14:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 22:00 — 0 players2026-09-27 05:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 13:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 20:00 — 0 players2026-10-01 04:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 11:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 19:00 — 0 players2026-10-05 03:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 10:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 18:00 — 0 players2026-10-09 01:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 09:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 17:00 — 0 players2026-10-13 00:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 08:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$3.99$0.792016-07-132026-07-092016-07-13 — best price $3.392016-09-19 — best price $1.992016-11-01 — best price $3.992016-12-22 — best price $0.992017-01-23 — best price $3.992017-05-22 — best price $1.992017-07-05 — best price $3.992017-10-02 — best price $1.992017-11-01 — best price $3.992017-12-21 — best price $0.792018-01-22 — best price $3.992018-03-19 — best price $1.992018-07-05 — best price $3.992018-10-29 — best price $0.992018-11-28 — best price $3.992019-02-04 — best price $1.992019-07-10 — best price $3.992019-11-26 — best price $1.352020-01-02 — best price $3.992020-11-25 — best price $1.992021-01-05 — best price $3.992021-10-28 — best price $0.992021-12-01 — best price $3.992023-01-16 — best price $0.992023-03-23 — best price $3.992023-07-17 — best price $1.992023-10-16 — best price $3.992023-12-04 — best price $3.032024-01-15 — best price $3.032024-03-04 — best price $3.992024-06-27 — best price $0.992024-08-22 — best price $3.992024-12-19 — best price $0.792025-02-16 — best price $3.992025-06-26 — best price $0.792025-10-06 — best price $3.992026-03-19 — best price $0.792026-07-09 — best price $3.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

13
achievements tracked
18.9%
earned "Swapboy I"
9.9%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam Trading CardsSteam CloudRemote Play on TVFamily Sharing1 DLC

13 supported languages: English, Russian, Dutch, Turkish, Italian, French, Hungarian, Swedish, Thai, Polish, German, Simplified Chinese…

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2016-07-13 (Steam store data)

Player tags

2DIndieArcadeCasualPuzzleAdventureMinimalistPlatformerStory RichAtmospheric

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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