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Bad Caterpillar

Fun Infused Games · 2016-10-19

Steam

ActionCasualIndie

Modes: Single player

Releases: Oct 19, 2016 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Bad Caterpillars and their swarms of insect hordes are invading. Get to your ship, man the lasers, and save the galaxy from caterpillars, scorpions, spiders, and a slew of other ill-tempered giant killer insects.

0
playing now
94%
positive of 123 reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
70/100
IGDB user rating (0 ratings)
silver
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$1.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 13:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 66% of 10,936 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 3.1k–7.4k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 123 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.74 at Steam (2016-10-29) · bundled 4×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $1.99 · on sale 3 of 6 observed days (census price snapshots)

Players online

102026-08-12 01:00 — 0 players2026-08-12 17:00 — 0 players2026-08-13 08:00 — 0 players2026-08-14 00:00 — 0 players2026-08-14 16:00 — 0 players2026-08-15 08:00 — 0 players2026-08-16 00:00 — 0 players2026-08-16 16:00 — 0 players2026-08-17 08:00 — 0 players2026-08-18 00:00 — 0 players2026-08-18 15:00 — 0 players2026-08-19 07:00 — 0 players2026-08-19 23:00 — 0 players2026-08-20 15:00 — 0 players2026-08-21 06:00 — 0 players2026-08-21 22:00 — 0 players2026-08-22 14:00 — 0 players2026-08-23 06:00 — 0 players2026-08-23 21:00 — 0 players2026-08-24 13:00 — 0 players2026-08-25 05:00 — 0 players2026-08-25 21:00 — 0 players2026-08-26 13:00 — 0 players2026-08-27 06:00 — 0 players2026-08-27 22:00 — 0 players2026-08-28 14:00 — 0 players2026-08-29 06:00 — 0 players2026-08-29 21:00 — 1 players2026-08-30 13:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$1.99$0.742016-10-202026-07-092016-10-20 — best price $0.892016-11-01 — best price $0.992016-12-22 — best price $0.742017-03-30 — best price $0.992017-07-05 — best price $1.992017-11-22 — best price $0.992018-01-04 — best price $1.992018-06-21 — best price $0.992018-11-01 — best price $1.992018-12-20 — best price $0.992019-02-12 — best price $1.992019-10-28 — best price $0.992020-01-02 — best price $1.992020-06-26 — best price $0.992020-11-02 — best price $1.992020-12-22 — best price $0.992021-02-15 — best price $1.992021-10-28 — best price $0.992021-12-01 — best price $1.992022-06-23 — best price $0.992022-11-29 — best price $1.992023-03-16 — best price $0.792023-07-13 — best price $1.992023-11-25 — best price $0.992024-01-05 — best price $1.992024-06-27 — best price $0.992024-12-04 — best price $1.992025-03-13 — best price $0.992025-07-10 — best price $1.992025-12-18 — best price $0.812026-07-09 — best price $1.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam Trading CardsSteam LeaderboardsFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Player tags

IndieRetroActionArcadeCasualShoot 'Em Up

Census log

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

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