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DRAINUS

Team Ladybug · WSS playground · 2022-05-22

Steam

ActionIndie

Modes: Single player

Releases: May 22, 2022 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Feb 02, 2023 (Nintendo Switch)

This is a side-scrolling shooting game in which you take control of the "Drainus", the Kharlal Empire's most cutting-edge fighter with the ability to absorb energy bullets, and take down the enemy ships zipping through space.

1
playing now
96%
positive of 1.2k reviews
Overwhelmingly Positive
steam rating
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
81/100
critic score (1 outlets, IGDB)
80/100
IGDB user rating (10 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$14.99
steam price (US)

1 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 07:00 UTC (census sample)

Drainus is a 2022 scrolling shooter video game developed by Team Ladybug, co-published by Playism and WSS Playground for Microsoft Windows. A Nintendo Switch version was released on February 2, 2023. It follows Irina, daughter of an ill slave from planet Halpax under rule of the Kharlal empire led by general Izumo, joined by the humanoid soldier Ghenie on a journey to save her father by stealing a starfighter and overthrow the empire to prevent a galactic war. Controlling the titular fighter ship, the player must fight waves of enemies and bosses, while avoiding collision with their projectiles and other obstacles. The Drainus ship is equipped with a "reflector" that absorbs enemy shots for a brief time period to launch counterattacks and its functions can be enhanced via energy tanks.

Health check

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 32% of 10,955 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 23k–52k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 1,156 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $7.49 at Steam (2025-09-18)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $14.99 · on sale 6 of 12 observed days (census price snapshots)

Players online

302026-08-11 23:00 — 0 players2026-08-12 15:00 — 3 players2026-08-13 06:00 — 2 players2026-08-13 22:00 — 1 players2026-08-14 14:00 — 0 players2026-08-15 06:00 — 1 players2026-08-15 22:00 — 1 players2026-08-16 14:00 — 3 players2026-08-17 06:00 — 1 players2026-08-17 22:00 — 1 players2026-08-18 13:00 — 0 players2026-08-19 05:00 — 0 players2026-08-19 21:00 — 1 players2026-08-20 13:00 — 3 players2026-08-21 04:00 — 1 players2026-08-21 20:00 — 0 players2026-08-22 12:00 — 0 players2026-08-23 04:00 — 1 players2026-08-23 19:00 — 1 players2026-08-24 11:00 — 0 players2026-08-25 03:00 — 1 players2026-08-25 19:00 — 1 players2026-08-26 11:00 — 1 players2026-08-27 03:00 — 1 players2026-08-27 19:00 — 0 players2026-08-28 08:00 — 0 players2026-08-29 00:00 — 0 players2026-08-29 15:00 — 0 players2026-08-30 07:00 — 1 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$14.99$7.492022-05-222026-07-092022-05-22 — best price $13.492022-06-23 — best price $11.992022-08-05 — best price $11.992022-09-12 — best price $11.992022-11-22 — best price $11.992022-12-03 — best price $11.992022-12-23 — best price $11.992023-01-16 — best price $11.992023-03-09 — best price $11.992023-05-20 — best price $11.992023-06-30 — best price $11.992023-08-01 — best price $11.992023-09-10 — best price $11.992023-11-21 — best price $11.992023-12-02 — best price $11.992024-02-01 — best price $11.992024-03-14 — best price $10.492024-05-25 — best price $10.492024-06-27 — best price $10.492024-08-07 — best price $10.492024-09-18 — best price $10.492024-11-27 — best price $10.492024-12-06 — best price $10.492024-12-19 — best price $10.492025-01-15 — best price $10.492025-06-27 — best price $10.492025-08-01 — best price $10.492025-09-18 — best price $7.492025-12-18 — best price $7.492026-02-09 — best price $7.492026-03-19 — best price $7.492026-04-04 — best price $7.492026-06-19 — best price $7.492026-07-09 — best price $14.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

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Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

20
achievements tracked
96.4%
earned "The Drainus Takes Flight"
47.4%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsPartial Controller SupportSteam CloudFamily Sharing1 DLC

13 supported languages: Japanese, English, Simplified Chinese, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Latin America, Thai, Turkish, Portuguese - Brazil, Traditional Chinese, Korean…

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)1,40118%20
Switch (Nintendo)320%0

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

Player tags

2DAnimeIndieActionArcadeSci-fiShooterBullet HellShoot 'Em UpSingleplayer

Census log

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

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