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Beware Planet Earth cover art

Beware Planet Earth

Lightmare Studio · Jumping Ram · 2014-04-11

Steam

CasualIndieStrategy

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Bird view / Isometric

Releases: May 29, 2014 (iOS), Aug 29, 2013 (Mac), Aug 30, 2012 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Beware Planet Earth! is a beguiling mix of classic tower defense and time management coming to PC via Steam for the first time. Save your cows from the Martian invasion by building an effective defense using towers, traps and objects, and also by firing your Zapper directly at the invading force of little green men!

Beware Planet Earth is a Casual, Indie, Strategy game released in 2014, priced at $2.99, with an owner estimate of 50,000 .. 100,000 and a Mostly Positive review sentiment (72% of 341 reviews).

2
playing now
72%
positive of 341 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
60/100
IGDB user rating (1 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$2.99
steam price (US)

2 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 18:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 2 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 7 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 36% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 16% of 29,056 Casual games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-01

Estimated sales: 8.5k–20k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 341 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.99 at IndieGala Store (2024-03-11) · bundled 5×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $4.99 · on sale 10 of 19 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
8820152026Week of 2015-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-09-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2015-09-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2015-10-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2015-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-10-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2016-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2016-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2016-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

302026-09-15 04:00 — 2 players2026-09-16 12:00 — 1 players2026-09-17 19:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 03:00 — 1 players2026-09-20 10:00 — 0 players2026-09-21 18:00 — 1 players2026-09-23 02:00 — 1 players2026-09-24 09:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 17:00 — 0 players2026-09-27 00:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 08:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 15:00 — 0 players2026-09-30 23:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 06:00 — 1 players2026-10-03 14:00 — 2 players2026-10-04 22:00 — 3 players2026-10-06 05:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 13:00 — 1 players2026-10-08 20:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 04:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 11:00 — 1 players2026-10-12 19:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 03:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 18:00 — 2 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
301Apr 2014Jan 2026Apr 2014 — avg 23 · peak 70Jul 2014 — avg 4 · peak 13Oct 2014 — avg 1 · peak 13Jan 2015 — avg 3 · peak 11Apr 2015 — avg 1 · peak 6Jul 2015 — avg 1 · peak 6Oct 2015 — avg 8 · peak 23Jan 2016 — avg 6 · peak 17Apr 2016 — avg 3 · peak 11Jul 2016 — avg 3 · peak 9Oct 2016 — avg 6 · peak 41Jan 2017 — avg 3 · peak 10Apr 2017 — avg 2 · peak 7Jul 2017 — avg 2 · peak 8Oct 2017 — avg 1 · peak 5Jan 2018 — avg 1 · peak 6Apr 2018 — avg 1 · peak 6Jul 2018 — avg 1 · peak 6Oct 2018 — avg 1 · peak 4Jan 2019 — avg 1 · peak 6Apr 2019 — avg 1 · peak 5Jul 2019 — avg 1 · peak 4Oct 2019 — avg 1 · peak 4Jan 2020 — avg 1 · peak 4Apr 2020 — avg 1 · peak 4Aug 2020 — avg 1 · peak 4Nov 2020 — avg 1 · peak 4Mar 2021 — avg 1 · peak 5Jun 2021 — avg 1 · peak 4Feb 2022 — avg 1 · peak 6Jul 2022 — avg 1 · peak 4Oct 2025 — avg 2 · peak 5Jan 2026 — avg 2 · peak 5
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$9.99$0.992015-01-012026-08-242015-01-01 — best price $2.492015-05-18 — best price $9.992015-05-25 — best price $9.992015-06-22 — best price $9.992015-09-14 — best price $9.992015-10-19 — best price $9.992015-12-01 — best price $9.992016-01-04 — best price $9.992016-02-01 — best price $9.992016-02-12 — best price $9.992016-07-04 — best price $9.992016-09-26 — best price $9.992016-10-10 — best price $9.992016-10-17 — best price $9.992016-11-29 — best price $9.992017-07-05 — best price $9.992018-07-05 — best price $9.992024-01-04 — best price $9.992024-03-14 — best price $4.992024-06-27 — best price $4.992024-07-29 — best price $3.992024-11-27 — best price $3.992024-12-19 — best price $2.992025-03-13 — best price $2.492025-04-01 — best price $3.492025-05-12 — best price $3.492025-06-26 — best price $0.992025-07-21 — best price $2.492025-09-01 — best price $2.492025-09-29 — best price $0.992025-10-20 — best price $2.492025-12-01 — best price $2.492025-12-18 — best price $0.992026-01-12 — best price $2.492026-03-09 — best price $0.992026-03-19 — best price $0.992026-04-20 — best price $2.992026-06-25 — best price $0.992026-07-13 — best price $2.992026-08-24 — best price $2.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

33
achievements tracked
69.6%
earned "Welcowme on board!"
4.5%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam Trading CardsSteam CloudFamily Sharing

8 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Dutch, Portuguese - Brazil, Swedish

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)2,7343%33

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

Player tags

2DCuteAnimeIndieSpaceAliensCasualComedySci-fiCartoony

Census log

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

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