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Anomalous

Byron Dunwoody · 2024-09-22

Steam

ActionIndie

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: First person

Releases: Sep 22, 2024 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

A SHORT and sweet pixelated low fidelity 90s throwback hyper-fast action shooter. Survive and fight through a city overrun with manufactured monstrosities, biomass horrors, and a military authority trying to purge everything living. Heavy metal / techno soundtrack featuring BOD Music

70%
positive of 179 reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$8.99
steam price (US)

Anomalous takes place in Kosolov. A grim industrial city. Kosolov is a highly controlled and secretive society. It's an industrialized nation. With overwhelming authority and a devotion to its leaders, the citizens endlessly work to death. A hard divide between the secretive upper society and the majority brainwashed working class ensures continuation. Effectively shunned from the rest of the world, leaders of Kosolov have been free to fast-track their unethical scientific experiments to enhance their tyrannical military capabilities and workforce. To create the ultimate controllable and mind(Storyline via IGDB)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 9 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity up 29% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (30 reviews).
  • · Top 32% of 26,388 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 3.6k–8.1k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 179 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $4.49 at Steam (2024-12-19) · bundled 4×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $8.99 · on sale 1 of 2 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
272720222026Week of 2022-01-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$8.99$4.492022-01-112026-01-052022-01-11 — best price $4.992023-03-23 — best price $6.992024-01-10 — best price $6.992024-09-22 — best price $8.992024-11-27 — best price $7.642024-12-04 — best price $8.992024-12-19 — best price $4.492025-01-02 — best price $8.992025-07-09 — best price $4.492025-07-10 — best price $8.992025-10-01 — best price $6.742025-10-06 — best price $8.992025-12-18 — best price $4.492026-01-05 — best price $8.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerFull controller supportDualShock Controller SupportDualShock Controller SupportFamily Sharing

Player tags

FPSGoreIndieRetroActionCombatHorrorShooterViolentStylized

Census log

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

Recent updates

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