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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.

Bad Caterpillar is an Action, Casual, Indie game released in 2016, priced at $1.99, with an estimated 20,000 .. 50,000 owners and Very Positive (94% of 123 reviews) sentiment.

0
playing now
94%
positive of 123 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
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 2026-10-14 08:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 6 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity up 20% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 36% of 27,667 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-01

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 2 of 4 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
111120162026Week of 2016-10-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2016-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2017-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

102026-09-15 09:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 17:00 — 0 players2026-09-18 00:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 08:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 15:00 — 0 players2026-09-21 23:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 07:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 14:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 22:00 — 0 players2026-09-27 05:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 13:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 20:00 — 1 players2026-10-01 04:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 11:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 19:00 — 0 players2026-10-05 03:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 11:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 18:00 — 0 players2026-10-09 02:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 09:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 17:00 — 0 players2026-10-13 00:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 08:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
130Oct 2016Jul 2023Oct 2016 — avg 3 · peak 26Nov 2016 — avg 4 · peak 37Dec 2016 — avg 2 · peak 11Jan 2017 — avg 1 · peak 12Feb 2017 — avg 1 · peak 5Mar 2017 — avg 0 · peak 10Apr 2017 — avg 3 · peak 17May 2017 — avg 13 · peak 498Jun 2017 — avg 4 · peak 126Jul 2017 — avg 1 · peak 12Aug 2017 — avg 0 · peak 4Sep 2017 — avg 0 · peak 8Oct 2017 — avg 0 · peak 2Nov 2017 — avg 0 · peak 2Dec 2017 — avg 1 · peak 75Jan 2018 — avg 0 · peak 10Feb 2018 — avg 2 · peak 226Mar 2018 — avg 0 · peak 4Apr 2018 — avg 0 · peak 2May 2018 — avg 0 · peak 2Jun 2018 — avg 0 · peak 2Jul 2018 — avg 0 · peak 2Aug 2018 — avg 0 · peak 4Sep 2018 — avg 0 · peak 12Oct 2018 — avg 0 · peak 2Nov 2018 — avg 0 · peak 2Dec 2018 — avg 0 · peak 2Jan 2019 — avg 0 · peak 2Feb 2019 — avg 0 · peak 2Mar 2019 — avg 0 · peak 2Apr 2019 — avg 0 · peak 2May 2019 — avg 0 · peak 1Jun 2019 — avg 0 · peak 2Jul 2019 — avg 0 · peak 1Aug 2019 — avg 0 · peak 2Sep 2019 — avg 0 · peak 2Aug 2020 — avg 0 · peak 1Jul 2023 — avg 1 · peak 59

▲ +1 avg players vs prior month — Jul 2023

Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

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).

Completion

11
achievements tracked
11.8%
earned "It's A Start"
10.1%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

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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Similarity via IGDB.

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