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DEPLOYMENT cover art

DEPLOYMENT

Whale Rock Games · 2018-04-10

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ActionAdventureIndieMassively MultiplayerRacingSportsStrategy

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative, Massively Multiplayer Online (MMO) · Perspectives: Bird view / Isometric

Releases: Oct 24, 2018 (Nintendo Switch), Apr 10, 2018 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Sep 25, 2018 (PlayStation 4), Oct 10, 2018 (Xbox One)

An intense competitive top-down shooter: choose your class, capture turrets, progress, and dominate in the arena. top-down shooter, multiplayer shooter, arena shooter, class-based shooter, sci-fi shooter

DEPLOYMENT is a 2018 Action, Adventure, Indie, Massively Multiplayer game priced at $1.49, with Very Positive reviews from 82% of 1238 reviews and an estimated 50,000 to 100,000 owners.

0
playing now
82%
positive of 1.2k reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
80/100
IGDB user rating (2 ratings)
3.91★
PlayStation Store rating (78 ratings)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$1.49
steam price (US)

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

Health check

Cooling
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 60 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~8/week).
  • · Review velocity down 85% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (212 reviews).
  • · Top 14% of 27,656 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-31

Estimated sales: 31k–74k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 1,238 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

Microsoft Store$13.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $0.19 at Humble Store (2023-08-12) · bundled 16×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $14.99 · on sale 33 of 49 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
19619620182026Week of 2018-04-01: 76 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2018-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-06-01: 42 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 32 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 36 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2019-02-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2019-03-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 36 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 34 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 49 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 69 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 196 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 16 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 45 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

602026-09-15 02:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 11:00 — 0 players2026-09-17 18:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 02:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 09:00 — 0 players2026-09-21 17:00 — 1 players2026-09-23 00:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 08:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 15:00 — 0 players2026-09-26 23:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 06:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 14:00 — 0 players2026-09-30 21:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 05:00 — 2 players2026-10-03 12:00 — 6 players2026-10-04 21:00 — 1 players2026-10-06 04:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 12:00 — 0 players2026-10-08 19:00 — 1 players2026-10-10 03:00 — 1 players2026-10-11 10:00 — 0 players2026-10-12 18:00 — 1 players2026-10-14 01:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 17:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$39.99$0.262018-04-092026-10-092018-04-09 — best price $11.692018-06-02 — best price $9.742018-07-13 — best price $12.452018-09-03 — best price $5.062018-11-05 — best price $5.192019-01-03 — best price $9.992019-03-15 — best price $1.352019-05-10 — best price $0.512019-07-28 — best price $19.992019-11-15 — best price $9.992020-01-14 — best price $6.082020-02-16 — best price $5.552020-04-20 — best price $5.562020-06-29 — best price $12.992020-09-14 — best price $0.602020-12-12 — best price $0.602021-03-02 — best price $7.992021-04-23 — best price $5.872021-07-12 — best price $0.742021-11-01 — best price $5.872022-01-06 — best price $5.872022-04-18 — best price $9.992022-06-18 — best price $9.992022-09-30 — best price $9.992022-12-22 — best price $0.992023-05-05 — best price $0.702023-10-05 — best price $6.992024-03-12 — best price $9.992024-06-27 — best price $0.692024-11-29 — best price $0.532025-04-14 — best price $0.262025-09-06 — best price $39.992026-01-30 — best price $3.002026-07-03 — best price $3.002026-10-09 — best price $13.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

54
achievements tracked
38.9%
earned "It would be extremely painful"
10.1%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerMulti-playerMMOPvPOnline PvPSteam AchievementsFull controller supportCustom Volume ControlsPlayable without Timed InputDualShock Controller Support

6 supported languages: English, Russian, Ukrainian, French, German, Spanish - Spain

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Xbox One (Xbox)2,77666%11
Steam (Steam)1,0959%54
PS4 (PlayStation)28945%11
Switch (Nintendo)0—0

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

Player tags

FunnyActionCasualPuzzleRacingSci-fiScienceDark HumorPlatformerAtmospheric

Census log

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

Recent updates

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