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Arcade Moonlander cover art

Arcade Moonlander

Daniel Paul Griffin · Back Of Nowhere Studios · 2017-10-25

Steam

ActionAdventureCasualIndieRacing

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Side view

Releases: Oct 30, 2017 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Explore space and race against the clock in this retro styled adventure game.

Arcade Moonlander is an Action, Adventure, Casual, and Indie game released in 2017, priced at $0.99, with an estimated 100,000 to 200,000 owners and a Very Positive review sentiment (93% of 1216 reviews).

3
playing now
93%
positive of 1.2k reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
50/100
IGDB user rating (5 ratings)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$0.99
steam price (US)

3 players in-game as of 2026-10-15 07:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 3 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 5 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 17% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 14% of 27,908 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-31

Estimated sales: 30k–73k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 1,218 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.49 at Steam (2020-07-01)via IsThereAnyDeal

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
7720172026Week of 2018-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

1002026-09-15 16:00 — 1 players2026-09-17 00:00 — 0 players2026-09-18 08:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 15:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 23:00 — 1 players2026-09-22 06:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 14:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 21:00 — 0 players2026-09-26 05:00 — 0 players2026-09-27 12:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 20:00 — 0 players2026-09-30 03:00 — 0 players2026-10-01 11:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 18:00 — 0 players2026-10-04 02:00 — 0 players2026-10-05 10:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 18:00 — 4 players2026-10-08 01:00 — 2 players2026-10-09 09:00 — 3 players2026-10-10 16:00 — 1 players2026-10-12 00:00 — 3 players2026-10-13 07:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 15:00 — 10 players2026-10-15 07:00 — 3 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$2.99$0.002017-10-262024-09-092017-10-26 — best price $2.692018-04-02 — best price $1.492018-08-06 — best price $0.502018-11-05 — best price $1.192019-01-07 — best price $1.492019-03-14 — best price $1.492019-05-06 — best price $1.192019-06-26 — best price $0.892019-07-30 — best price $1.492019-11-22 — best price $1.492020-02-03 — best price $1.192020-04-10 — best price $0.002020-07-01 — best price $0.492020-10-28 — best price $0.542020-12-22 — best price $0.592021-02-11 — best price $0.492021-07-05 — best price $0.592021-08-26 — best price $0.592022-06-23 — best price $0.492022-12-22 — best price $0.492023-03-16 — best price $0.492023-04-03 — best price $0.492023-06-19 — best price $0.492023-06-30 — best price $0.492023-12-04 — best price $0.752024-01-22 — best price $0.752024-03-14 — best price $0.752024-09-02 — best price $0.752024-09-09 — best price $0.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

42
achievements tracked
62.3%
earned "First crash!"
22.9%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsPartial Controller SupportSteam CloudStatsSteam LeaderboardsFamily Sharing

3 supported languages: English, German, Russian

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)2,99033%42

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

Player tags

2DNoirRetroSpaceActionArcadeFlightRacingSci-fiPhysics

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.