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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.

Death Ray Manta SE is an Action, Indie game released in 2015, priced at $4.99, with a Mostly Positive review sentiment (73% of 218 reviews) and an estimated 50,000 .. 100,000 owners.

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

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-15 10:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 4 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity up 33% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 28% of 28,012 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-01

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 5 of 10 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
111120152026Week of 2015-09-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2015-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2015-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2016-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2016-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2017-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2017-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

002026-09-15 20:00 — 0 players2026-09-17 04:00 — 0 players2026-09-18 11:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 19:00 — 0 players2026-09-21 02:00 — 0 players2026-09-22 10:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 18:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 01:00 — 0 players2026-09-26 09:00 — 0 players2026-09-27 16:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 00:00 — 0 players2026-09-30 07:00 — 0 players2026-10-01 15:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 22:00 — 0 players2026-10-04 06:00 — 0 players2026-10-05 14:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 21:00 — 0 players2026-10-08 05:00 — 0 players2026-10-09 12:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 20:00 — 0 players2026-10-12 04:00 — 0 players2026-10-13 11:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 19:00 — 0 players2026-10-15 10:00 — 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

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Switch (Nintendo)60%0

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

Player tags

2DIndieActionArcadeColorfulShoot 'Em UpSingleplayerArena ShooterFamily FriendlyGreat Soundtrack

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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