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Chicken Invaders 5 cover art

Chicken Invaders 5

InterAction studios · 2015-03-13

Steam

ActionCasualIndie

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative

Releases: Mar 13, 2015 (Linux), Mar 13, 2015 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Mar 13, 2015 (Mac)

Chicken Invaders puts you at the forefront of a battle against invading intergalactic chickens, bent on revenge for our oppression of Earth chickens. This time, the chickens have hatched a devious plan to block out sunlight and freeze Earth to death!

Chicken Invaders 5 is an Action, Casual, Indie game released in 2015, priced at $5.99, with an estimated 50,000 .. 100,000 owners and an Overwhelmingly Positive review sentiment (96% of 1118 reviews).

21
playing now
96%
positive of 1.1k reviews
Overwhelmingly Positive
steam's rating (official)
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
60/100
IGDB user rating (9 ratings)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$5.99
steam price (US)

21 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 17:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 21 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 41 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~5/week).
  • · Review velocity up 0% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 14% of 27,667 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-31

Estimated sales: 28k–67k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 1,118 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $1.54 at Fanatical (2024-12-05) · bundled 2×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $5.99 · on sale 33 of 43 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
222220172026Week of 2017-12-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-12-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-04-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-06-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-02-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 2 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

2112026-09-15 03:00 — 4 players2026-09-16 11:00 — 8 players2026-09-17 18:00 — 10 players2026-09-19 02:00 — 6 players2026-09-20 09:00 — 7 players2026-09-21 17:00 — 14 players2026-09-23 01:00 — 4 players2026-09-24 08:00 — 8 players2026-09-25 16:00 — 18 players2026-09-26 23:00 — 5 players2026-09-28 07:00 — 2 players2026-09-29 14:00 — 17 players2026-09-30 22:00 — 3 players2026-10-02 05:00 — 3 players2026-10-03 13:00 — 12 players2026-10-04 21:00 — 10 players2026-10-06 04:00 — 6 players2026-10-07 12:00 — 10 players2026-10-08 19:00 — 14 players2026-10-10 03:00 — 6 players2026-10-11 10:00 — 14 players2026-10-12 18:00 — 13 players2026-10-14 02:00 — 6 players2026-10-14 17:00 — 21 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
175Mar 2015Aug 2026Mar 2015 — avg 9 · peak 25Jul 2015 — avg 7 · peak 21Nov 2015 — avg 10 · peak 32Mar 2016 — avg 9 · peak 25Jul 2016 — avg 8 · peak 28Nov 2016 — avg 8 · peak 30Mar 2017 — avg 7 · peak 23Jul 2017 — avg 9 · peak 29Nov 2017 — avg 8 · peak 36Mar 2018 — avg 9 · peak 26Jul 2018 — avg 10 · peak 35Nov 2018 — avg 9 · peak 26Mar 2019 — avg 7 · peak 25Jul 2019 — avg 8 · peak 22Nov 2019 — avg 9 · peak 24Mar 2020 — avg 15 · peak 52Jul 2020 — avg 11 · peak 27Nov 2020 — avg 14 · peak 36Mar 2021 — avg 13 · peak 36Jul 2021 — avg 11 · peak 33Nov 2021 — avg 11 · peak 34Mar 2022 — avg 12 · peak 43Jul 2022 — avg 9 · peak 24Nov 2022 — avg 9 · peak 28Mar 2023 — avg 13 · peak 34Jul 2023 — avg 11 · peak 30Nov 2023 — avg 12 · peak 35Mar 2024 — avg 12 · peak 35Jul 2024 — avg 11 · peak 25Nov 2024 — avg 11 · peak 28Mar 2025 — avg 12 · peak 31Jul 2025 — avg 11 · peak 28Nov 2025 — avg 10 · peak 30Mar 2026 — avg 11 · peak 28Jul 2026 — avg 9 · peak 29Aug 2026 — avg 8 · peak 26
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$5.99$1.842015-03-132026-08-172015-03-13 — best price $4.492016-02-05 — best price $2.492016-12-22 — best price $2.492017-11-28 — best price $4.992018-11-27 — best price $4.992019-11-01 — best price $4.992020-01-27 — best price $4.992020-04-28 — best price $4.992020-12-01 — best price $4.992021-11-01 — best price $4.992022-03-07 — best price $4.992023-03-23 — best price $4.992023-12-21 — best price $2.492024-01-09 — best price $3.922024-02-16 — best price $3.922024-03-13 — best price $4.492024-04-27 — best price $3.922024-06-25 — best price $3.922024-08-13 — best price $3.922024-08-27 — best price $3.922024-09-16 — best price $2.042024-10-21 — best price $4.492024-11-13 — best price $3.922025-01-02 — best price $4.992025-01-13 — best price $3.922025-03-01 — best price $4.492025-03-22 — best price $3.922025-04-05 — best price $4.492025-04-30 — best price $3.002025-06-16 — best price $5.992025-07-17 — best price $3.922025-09-03 — best price $3.922025-10-13 — best price $1.842025-12-11 — best price $2.042026-02-03 — best price $3.002026-03-24 — best price $3.922026-05-26 — best price $5.992026-07-27 — best price $4.002026-08-17 — best price $4.00
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

15
achievements tracked
74.4%
earned "Medal of Annihilation"
43.5%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSFull controller supportSingle-playerMulti-playerCo-opOnline Co-opShared/Split Screen Co-opShared/Split ScreenCross-Platform MultiplayerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam Trading Cards2 DLC

8 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Czech, Polish, Russian

Post-launch support: 2 DLC released, first 2015-10-01, latest 2016-11-29 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)1,6649%15

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

Player tags

2DCo-opIndieActionArcadeCasualShooterBullet HellLocal Co-OpMultiplayer

Census log

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

Recent updates

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