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Ants Took My Eyeball cover art

Ants Took My Eyeball

Bosmic Forge · 2024-04-19

Steam

ActionAdventureIndie

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative · Perspectives: Side view

Releases: Apr 19, 2024 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Ants Took My Eyeball is a 2D action platformer roguelite. Descend into an ever-changing ant hill, fight your way through hordes of insects with a variety of weapons, face formidable bosses and ultimately find your stolen eyeball.

93%
positive of 263 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Verified
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$12.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 22 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~3/week).
  • · Review velocity down 45% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (90 reviews).
  • · Top 27% of 26,882 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 5.3k–12k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 263 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

lowest across shops (ITAD)$12.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $6.49 at Steam (2026-03-19)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $12.99 · on sale 11 of 23 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
848420242026Week of 2024-04-01: 84 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 5 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$16.99$6.492024-04-202026-10-082024-04-20 — best price $15.292024-06-27 — best price $13.592024-11-27 — best price $8.492024-12-20 — best price $8.492025-01-03 — best price $12.992025-02-17 — best price $12.992025-03-20 — best price $12.992025-04-28 — best price $12.992025-06-20 — best price $12.992025-07-10 — best price $12.992025-08-04 — best price $12.992025-10-14 — best price $12.992025-11-24 — best price $12.992026-01-12 — best price $12.992026-02-23 — best price $12.992026-03-26 — best price $12.992026-04-03 — best price $12.992026-05-09 — best price $12.992026-06-15 — best price $12.992026-07-09 — best price $12.992026-07-27 — best price $12.992026-09-07 — best price $12.992026-10-08 — best price $12.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

45
achievements tracked
77.3%
earned "Into the Ant Hill"
14.9%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerMulti-playerCo-opShared/Split Screen Co-opShared/Split ScreenSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam CloudRemote Play TogetherFamily Sharing1 DLC

1 supported languages: English

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2024-05-26 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)3042%45

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

2DLootDifficultPlatformerRogue-likeRogue-liteLocal Co-Op2D Platformer4 Player LocalLooter Shooter

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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