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Death Ray Manta SE cover art

Death Ray Manta SE

The Future Of Videogames · Thalamus Digital · 2015-09-17

Steam

ActionIndie

Modes: Single player

Releases: Oct 19, 2020 (Nintendo Switch), Sep 17, 2015 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Death Ray Manta is an arcade game where you shoot lasers to kill bad guys, flash lights at yourself and move to the next screen to do it all over again. Sorry, no T-Rex.

0
playing now
73%
positive of 218 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam rating
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
70/100
IGDB user rating (0 ratings)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$4.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 09:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 57% of 11,000 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 5.5k–13k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 218 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.50 at Steam (2017-11-22)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $4.99 · on sale 6 of 12 observed days (census price snapshots)

Players online

102026-08-11 20:00 — 0 players2026-08-12 12:00 — 0 players2026-08-13 04:00 — 0 players2026-08-13 19:00 — 0 players2026-08-14 11:00 — 0 players2026-08-15 03:00 — 1 players2026-08-15 19:00 — 0 players2026-08-16 11:00 — 0 players2026-08-17 03:00 — 0 players2026-08-17 19:00 — 0 players2026-08-18 11:00 — 1 players2026-08-19 02:00 — 1 players2026-08-19 18:00 — 0 players2026-08-20 10:00 — 0 players2026-08-21 02:00 — 0 players2026-08-21 17:00 — 0 players2026-08-22 09:00 — 1 players2026-08-23 01:00 — 0 players2026-08-23 17:00 — 0 players2026-08-24 08:00 — 0 players2026-08-25 00:00 — 0 players2026-08-25 16:00 — 0 players2026-08-26 09:00 — 0 players2026-08-27 01:00 — 0 players2026-08-27 17:00 — 0 players2026-08-28 09:00 — 0 players2026-08-29 02:00 — 0 players2026-08-29 17:00 — 0 players2026-08-30 09:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$4.99$0.502015-09-172026-07-202015-09-17 — best price $3.592015-11-19 — best price $3.192015-11-25 — best price $2.672015-12-22 — best price $2.672016-01-18 — best price $1.992016-02-05 — best price $1.992016-03-12 — best price $2.992016-04-25 — best price $2.992016-07-04 — best price $2.992016-07-19 — best price $2.992016-09-05 — best price $2.992016-09-26 — best price $2.992016-11-29 — best price $2.992017-01-02 — best price $2.992017-02-06 — best price $2.992017-04-22 — best price $2.992017-07-05 — best price $2.992017-11-01 — best price $2.992017-11-28 — best price $2.992018-01-04 — best price $2.992018-02-19 — best price $2.992018-06-21 — best price $0.792018-11-21 — best price $1.492018-12-20 — best price $1.492019-06-25 — best price $0.992024-07-04 — best price $4.992025-01-02 — best price $4.992025-03-27 — best price $4.992025-07-10 — best price $4.992025-09-15 — best price $4.992025-11-03 — best price $4.992026-01-05 — best price $4.992026-03-23 — best price $4.992026-05-18 — best price $4.992026-07-20 — best price $4.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerFull controller supportSteam Trading CardsFamily Sharing

Player tags

2DIndieActionArcadeColorfulShoot 'Em UpSingleplayerArena ShooterFamily FriendlyGreat Soundtrack

Census log

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

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