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Dark Matter

InterWave Studios · Iceberg Interactive · 2013-10-17

SteamGOG

ActionIndie

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Third person, Side view

Releases: Oct 17, 2013 (Mac), Oct 17, 2013 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Oct 17, 2013 (Linux)

Dark Matter is a 2.5D side-scrolling survival horror game, set in a derelict spaceship besieged by a sinister alien presence, and infested with deadly parasites. As the Ensign, you must explore fetid hallways and abandoned facilities, scavenging for parts and blueprints, expanding your arsenal to up to four deadly weapons and freely...

Dark Matter is a $9.99 Action, Indie game released in 2013, with an owner estimate of 200,000 .. 500,000 and a review sentiment of Mixed (45% of 264 reviews).

0
playing now
45%
positive of 265 reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
40/100
IGDB user rating (1 ratings)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$9.99
steam price (US)

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

Dark Matter is an indie metroidvania/survival horror video game developed by Interwave Studios and published by Iceberg Interactive for the Windows, Linux and macOS in 2013.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 10 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity up 67% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 26% of 27,667 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-01

Estimated sales: 11k–21k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 265 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.45 at GreenManGaming (2022-07-12) · bundled 14×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $9.99 · on sale 103 of 120 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
7720132026Week of 2013-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2013-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2013-11-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2013-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2013-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2014-01-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2014-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2014-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2014-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2014-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2014-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2014-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2014-06-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2014-06-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2014-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2014-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2014-08-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2014-08-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2014-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2014-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2014-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2014-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2014-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2014-11-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2014-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2015-01-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2015-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2015-05-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2015-05-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2015-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2015-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2015-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2015-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2015-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2015-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2015-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2016-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2016-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2016-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-09-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2016-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2017-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

102026-09-14 23:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 07:00 — 0 players2026-09-17 15:00 — 0 players2026-09-18 22:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 06:00 — 0 players2026-09-21 13:00 — 0 players2026-09-22 21:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 04:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 12:00 — 0 players2026-09-26 19:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 03:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 10:00 — 0 players2026-09-30 18:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 01:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 09:00 — 0 players2026-10-04 17:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 01:00 — 1 players2026-10-07 08:00 — 0 players2026-10-08 16:00 — 0 players2026-10-09 23:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 07:00 — 0 players2026-10-12 14:00 — 1 players2026-10-13 22:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 14:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$15.45$0.452015-01-012026-08-222015-01-01 — best price $2.492015-05-20 — best price $3.742015-12-23 — best price $0.722016-07-07 — best price $15.452016-12-23 — best price $2.002017-05-11 — best price $0.992017-07-25 — best price $4.992017-09-08 — best price $4.992017-10-23 — best price $4.992017-12-13 — best price $4.992018-02-11 — best price $4.992018-03-28 — best price $4.992018-05-24 — best price $4.992018-07-25 — best price $4.992018-09-08 — best price $4.992018-10-23 — best price $4.992019-02-04 — best price $1.992019-08-23 — best price $9.992020-01-13 — best price $9.992020-08-17 — best price $1.792020-11-27 — best price $2.972021-04-01 — best price $9.992021-08-18 — best price $1.492021-12-01 — best price $7.342022-03-09 — best price $9.992022-07-11 — best price $7.342022-11-04 — best price $4.992023-02-07 — best price $4.992023-06-23 — best price $1.792023-11-16 — best price $9.992024-03-15 — best price $1.692024-07-11 — best price $0.992024-10-25 — best price $1.702025-03-24 — best price $1.992025-08-06 — best price $8.382026-01-05 — best price $1.492026-05-06 — best price $4.992026-08-15 — best price $1.002026-08-22 — best price $8.38
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

1702026-05-29 — 4 pageviews2026-06-02 — 4 pageviews2026-06-06 — 8 pageviews2026-06-10 — 3 pageviews2026-06-14 — 0 pageviews2026-06-18 — 2 pageviews2026-06-22 — 3 pageviews2026-06-26 — 4 pageviews2026-06-30 — 6 pageviews2026-07-04 — 8 pageviews2026-07-08 — 7 pageviews2026-07-12 — 1 pageviews2026-07-16 — 3 pageviews2026-07-20 — 3 pageviews2026-07-24 — 1 pageviews2026-07-28 — 2 pageviews2026-08-01 — 3 pageviews2026-08-05 — 2 pageviews2026-08-09 — 4 pageviews2026-08-13 — 7 pageviews2026-08-17 — 1 pageviews2026-08-21 — 2 pageviews2026-08-25 — 5 pageviews2026-08-29 — 7 pageviews2026-09-02 — 6 pageviews2026-09-06 — 1 pageviews2026-09-10 — 3 pageviews2026-09-14 — 5 pageviews2026-09-18 — 7 pageviews2026-09-22 — 8 pageviews2026-09-26 — 2 pageviews2026-09-30 — 0 pageviews2026-10-04 — 4 pageviews2026-10-07 — 8 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

17
achievements tracked
12.9%
earned "First Ooze"
1.9%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam Trading CardsSteam CloudFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)9974%17

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

Player tags

2.5DIndieActionHorrorSci-fiPlatformerMetroidvaniaSingleplayerSide ScrollerSurvival Horror

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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