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Desperation cover art

Desperation

EXBOTS · 2021-05-14

Steam

ActionIndieMassively MultiplayerEarly Access

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative, Massively Multiplayer Online (MMO)

Releases: May 14, 2021 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

In Desperation, you are an elite soldier, tasked to survive in an unknown location. You will be facing many challenges, such as building shelter, finding food and water, fighting off zombies, killer robots and even other soldiers. Will you stay solo, or will you group up? How will you survive?

0
playing now
70%
positive of 10 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam rating
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
$4.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 10:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 99% of 11,000 Action games in the census by review count.

All-time low: $4.99 at Steam (2022-04-05)via IsThereAnyDeal

Players online

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Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$19.99$4.992021-05-142022-04-052021-05-14 — best price $19.992021-06-24 — best price $14.992021-07-08 — best price $19.992021-10-28 — best price $11.992021-11-01 — best price $19.992021-11-24 — best price $11.992021-12-01 — best price $19.992021-12-22 — best price $9.992022-01-05 — best price $19.992022-04-05 — best price $4.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerMulti-playerMMOPvPOnline PvPLAN PvPCo-opOnline Co-opLAN Co-opFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Census log

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

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