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Attack of the Earthlings cover art

Attack of the Earthlings

Team Junkfish · Junkfish Limited · 2018-02-08

SteamGOGPlayStation StoreMicrosoft Store

IndieStrategy

Modes: Single player

Releases: Feb 08, 2018 (Mac), Feb 08, 2018 (Linux), Mar 05, 2019 (Xbox One), Feb 08, 2018 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Mar 05, 2019 (PlayStation 4)

Take on Galactoil, a comically dysfunctional intergalactic energy corporation, and its larger-than-life employees in a tactical-stealth game that fuses satisfying strategic gameplay and dark comedy in a quirky single-player story.

1
playing now
83%
positive of 452 reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
75/100
critic score (1 outlets, IGDB)
70/100
IGDB user rating (4 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$14.99
steam price (US)

1 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 12:00 UTC (census sample)

Attack of the Earthlings is a turn-based tactics video game developed by Team Junkfish. It was published for Linux, macOS, and Windows in 2018, and Wales Interactive published it for the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One in 2019.

Health check

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 37% of 18,104 Indie games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 11k–27k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 452 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

IndieGala$2.59-83%
GOG$2.99-80%
WinGameStore$2.99-80%
GOG$2.99-80%
lowest across shops (ITAD)$2.99-80%
Microsoft Store$17.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $1.00 at Fanatical (2021-03-09) · bundled 4×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $14.99 · on sale 88 of 134 observed days · $1.99 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Players online

302026-08-12 02:00 — 0 players2026-08-12 17:00 — 2 players2026-08-13 09:00 — 0 players2026-08-14 01:00 — 0 players2026-08-14 17:00 — 0 players2026-08-15 09:00 — 0 players2026-08-16 01:00 — 0 players2026-08-16 17:00 — 1 players2026-08-17 09:00 — 1 players2026-08-18 00:00 — 0 players2026-08-18 16:00 — 1 players2026-08-19 08:00 — 0 players2026-08-20 00:00 — 0 players2026-08-20 15:00 — 1 players2026-08-21 07:00 — 0 players2026-08-21 23:00 — 0 players2026-08-22 15:00 — 0 players2026-08-23 06:00 — 1 players2026-08-23 22:00 — 2 players2026-08-24 14:00 — 3 players2026-08-25 06:00 — 0 players2026-08-25 22:00 — 0 players2026-08-26 14:00 — 0 players2026-08-27 04:00 — 0 players2026-08-27 20:00 — 0 players2026-08-28 12:00 — 0 players2026-08-29 04:00 — 0 players2026-08-29 20:00 — 0 players2026-08-30 12:00 — 1 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$24.99$2.402018-02-082026-08-302018-02-08 — best price $22.492018-07-17 — best price $19.992019-03-08 — best price $19.992019-10-28 — best price $9.992020-02-24 — best price $19.992020-06-18 — best price $19.992020-12-22 — best price $9.992021-01-31 — best price $16.882021-03-02 — best price $19.992021-04-26 — best price $16.882021-06-24 — best price $9.992021-12-03 — best price $16.882022-06-28 — best price $19.992022-11-29 — best price $19.992023-03-17 — best price $14.692023-07-13 — best price $14.992023-10-16 — best price $4.492024-01-22 — best price $4.492024-04-04 — best price $14.992024-05-24 — best price $13.782024-08-05 — best price $3.192024-10-08 — best price $4.492024-12-03 — best price $13.792025-02-08 — best price $2.922025-04-12 — best price $2.882025-06-09 — best price $12.422025-07-31 — best price $14.992025-10-15 — best price $2.992025-11-25 — best price $2.992026-01-30 — best price $14.992026-04-03 — best price $14.992026-06-05 — best price $2.542026-08-01 — best price $2.992026-08-30 — best price $2.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

1202026-05-29 — 1 pageviews2026-06-01 — 1 pageviews2026-06-04 — 3 pageviews2026-06-07 — 2 pageviews2026-06-10 — 5 pageviews2026-06-13 — 4 pageviews2026-06-16 — 6 pageviews2026-06-19 — 1 pageviews2026-06-22 — 4 pageviews2026-06-25 — 1 pageviews2026-06-28 — 5 pageviews2026-07-01 — 2 pageviews2026-07-04 — 3 pageviews2026-07-07 — 5 pageviews2026-07-10 — 2 pageviews2026-07-13 — 4 pageviews2026-07-16 — 7 pageviews2026-07-19 — 3 pageviews2026-07-22 — 3 pageviews2026-07-25 — 1 pageviews2026-07-28 — 1 pageviews2026-07-31 — 4 pageviews2026-08-03 — 3 pageviews2026-08-06 — 7 pageviews2026-08-09 — 3 pageviews2026-08-12 — 4 pageviews2026-08-15 — 1 pageviews2026-08-18 — 3 pageviews2026-08-21 — 12 pageviews2026-08-24 — 5 pageviews2026-08-25 — 4 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

37
achievements tracked
87%
earned "Group Hug!"
12.4%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportRemote Play on TVFamily Sharing1 DLC

8 supported languages: English, German, Spanish - Spain, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Italian, Japanese, Korean

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)9443%37
PS4 (PlayStation)12211%36
Xbox One (Xbox)1174%35

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

Player tags

GoreIndieAliensComedySci-fiStrategyDark HumorStory RichTurn-BasedDark Comedy

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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