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Armada 2526 cover art

Armada 2526

Ntronium Games · Iceberg Interactive · 2011-04-08

Steam

Strategy

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer · Perspectives: Bird view / Isometric

Releases: Mar 05, 2011 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Guide one of 12 races on their first interstellar journey from a single planet, until it becomes a mighty pan-galactic empire.

Armada 2526 is a Strategy game released in 2011, priced at $14.99, with an owner estimate of 20,000 .. 50,000 and a Mixed review sentiment (54% of 35 reviews).

2
playing now
54%
positive of 35 reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
50/100
IGDB user rating (2 ratings)
bronze
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$14.99
steam price (US)

2 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 09:00 UTC (census sample)

Armada 2526 is a 4X science fiction computer strategy game developed by British studio Ntronium Games, released in North America on November 17, 2009. Armada 2526 is an example of the space opera genre, and is the spiritual successor of the game Armada 2525, which was released by Interstel in 1991. Armada 2526 puts players in charge of a fledgling galactic empire, and they must attempt to explore the galaxy and expand their territory, while trying to destroy rival empires. The gameplay is a hybrid of turn-based and real-time time-keeping systems, and players can use military, diplomatic, economic and technological means to further their empires. The game received mixed reviews from critics.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 2 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 10 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 9% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 63% of 14,087 Strategy games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-02

All-time low: $1.49 at Steam (2024-06-01) · bundled 1×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $14.99 · on sale 11 of 21 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
2220112022Week of 2011-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2011-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2011-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2011-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2012-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2012-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2012-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2013-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2013-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2014-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2014-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2014-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2014-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2014-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2014-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

202026-09-15 10:00 — 1 players2026-09-16 18:00 — 0 players2026-09-18 02:00 — 1 players2026-09-19 09:00 — 1 players2026-09-20 17:00 — 0 players2026-09-22 00:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 08:00 — 1 players2026-09-24 15:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 23:00 — 0 players2026-09-27 07:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 14:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 22:00 — 0 players2026-10-01 05:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 13:00 — 2 players2026-10-03 20:00 — 0 players2026-10-05 04:00 — 1 players2026-10-06 12:00 — 1 players2026-10-07 19:00 — 1 players2026-10-09 03:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 10:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 18:00 — 0 players2026-10-13 02:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 09:00 — 2 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$17.09$1.492015-01-012026-08-172015-01-01 — best price $3.742015-03-09 — best price $14.992015-05-12 — best price $14.992015-06-22 — best price $14.992015-11-27 — best price $16.602016-02-16 — best price $15.582016-05-13 — best price $14.992016-08-08 — best price $2.692016-12-22 — best price $2.992017-06-23 — best price $2.992018-01-04 — best price $14.992018-05-04 — best price $3.002018-12-18 — best price $12.602019-06-10 — best price $3.002019-08-26 — best price $2.992019-12-13 — best price $11.782020-02-07 — best price $11.362020-04-27 — best price $14.992020-08-10 — best price $14.992020-12-22 — best price $2.692021-04-22 — best price $2.752021-08-13 — best price $2.992021-12-01 — best price $14.992022-02-03 — best price $14.992022-04-22 — best price $2.132022-07-25 — best price $2.692022-11-29 — best price $14.992023-03-27 — best price $2.692023-06-29 — best price $2.692023-09-18 — best price $2.692023-12-21 — best price $2.692024-04-19 — best price $2.102024-08-02 — best price $2.122024-12-09 — best price $2.242025-06-09 — best price $2.252025-09-22 — best price $2.242026-02-23 — best price $1.492026-08-17 — best price $14.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

802026-05-29 — 4 pageviews2026-06-02 — 2 pageviews2026-06-06 — 3 pageviews2026-06-10 — 6 pageviews2026-06-14 — 4 pageviews2026-06-18 — 4 pageviews2026-06-22 — 3 pageviews2026-06-26 — 4 pageviews2026-06-30 — 7 pageviews2026-07-04 — 3 pageviews2026-07-08 — 3 pageviews2026-07-12 — 3 pageviews2026-07-16 — 4 pageviews2026-07-20 — 2 pageviews2026-07-24 — 1 pageviews2026-07-28 — 2 pageviews2026-08-01 — 8 pageviews2026-08-05 — 3 pageviews2026-08-09 — 4 pageviews2026-08-13 — 5 pageviews2026-08-17 — 2 pageviews2026-08-21 — 1 pageviews2026-08-25 — 4 pageviews2026-08-29 — 3 pageviews2026-09-02 — 8 pageviews2026-09-06 — 7 pageviews2026-09-10 — 3 pageviews2026-09-14 — 5 pageviews2026-09-18 — 6 pageviews2026-09-22 — 6 pageviews2026-09-26 — 6 pageviews2026-09-30 — 3 pageviews2026-10-04 — 3 pageviews2026-10-07 — 6 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerMulti-playerShared/Split ScreenRemote Play TogetherFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Player tags

4XSpaceSci-fiStrategyTurn-Based

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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