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Echelon

MADia Entertainment · ESDigital Games · 2014-07-03

Steam

ActionSimulation

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: First person

Releases: Apr 15, 2001 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

It's the year 2351, and you're a pilot trying to rise through the ranks all the way to glory. As a member of the Galactic Federation, you'll be granted more than 20 weapons to use in each pass-fail mission. Your goal is to defend the planet from attacking alien forces, and you'll put your skills into play across more than 30 campaigns.

Echelon is a 2014 Action and Simulation title priced at $3.99, with a Mixed review sentiment (50% of 157 reviews) and an estimated 20,000 to 50,000 owners.

0
playing now
50%
positive of 157 reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
70/100
critic score (1 outlets, IGDB)
40/100
IGDB user rating (3 ratings)
bronze
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$3.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 23:00 UTC (census sample)

Echelon is a 3-D science fiction flight simulator video game developed by Saint Petersburg developers MADia Entertainment. It was published in Russia by Buka Entertainment, and in all other territories by Bethesda Softworks.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 12 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity up 20% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 32% of 28,039 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-01

Estimated sales: 3.9k–9.4k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 157 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.35 at Steam (2015-10-05)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $3.99 · on sale 30 of 48 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
161620142026Week of 2014-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2014-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2014-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2014-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2014-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2014-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2014-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2015-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-10-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2015-10-01: 16 negativeWeek of 2015-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2015-12-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2015-12-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2016-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2016-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2016-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2016-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

102026-09-16 01:00 — 0 players2026-09-17 08:00 — 0 players2026-09-18 16:00 — 1 players2026-09-19 23:00 — 0 players2026-09-21 07:00 — 0 players2026-09-22 15:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 22:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 06:00 — 0 players2026-09-26 13:00 — 0 players2026-09-27 21:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 04:00 — 0 players2026-09-30 12:00 — 0 players2026-10-01 19:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 03:00 — 0 players2026-10-04 11:00 — 0 players2026-10-05 18:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 02:00 — 0 players2026-10-08 09:00 — 0 players2026-10-09 17:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 00:00 — 1 players2026-10-12 08:00 — 0 players2026-10-13 16:00 — 1 players2026-10-14 23:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$3.99$0.352015-01-012026-08-142015-01-01 — best price $0.992015-11-25 — best price $0.592016-03-07 — best price $1.352016-09-12 — best price $0.992017-02-13 — best price $1.352017-10-26 — best price $0.592018-03-26 — best price $0.792018-11-21 — best price $0.512019-06-26 — best price $0.512019-12-19 — best price $0.512020-10-29 — best price $0.512021-03-08 — best price $0.512021-10-28 — best price $0.512022-02-24 — best price $0.592022-11-22 — best price $0.392023-06-05 — best price $0.392023-10-12 — best price $3.992023-11-28 — best price $3.992024-01-05 — best price $3.352024-02-19 — best price $0.992024-03-24 — best price $3.342024-04-14 — best price $3.562024-05-05 — best price $0.782024-06-04 — best price $3.782024-07-13 — best price $3.782024-08-20 — best price $3.782024-10-21 — best price $0.992025-02-03 — best price $3.992025-06-16 — best price $3.992025-07-12 — best price $3.792025-11-10 — best price $3.992026-03-09 — best price $0.842026-04-07 — best price $0.802026-05-17 — best price $3.992026-07-09 — best price $3.992026-07-28 — best price $0.902026-08-14 — best price $3.46
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

1942026-06-02 — 13 pageviews2026-06-06 — 5 pageviews2026-06-10 — 6 pageviews2026-06-14 — 12 pageviews2026-06-18 — 14 pageviews2026-06-22 — 7 pageviews2026-06-26 — 7 pageviews2026-06-30 — 7 pageviews2026-07-04 — 7 pageviews2026-07-08 — 13 pageviews2026-07-12 — 7 pageviews2026-07-16 — 6 pageviews2026-07-20 — 9 pageviews2026-07-24 — 11 pageviews2026-07-28 — 9 pageviews2026-08-01 — 4 pageviews2026-08-05 — 7 pageviews2026-08-09 — 8 pageviews2026-08-13 — 5 pageviews2026-08-17 — 8 pageviews2026-08-21 — 4 pageviews2026-08-25 — 7 pageviews2026-08-29 — 8 pageviews2026-09-02 — 9 pageviews2026-09-06 — 4 pageviews2026-09-10 — 5 pageviews2026-09-14 — 7 pageviews2026-09-18 — 5 pageviews2026-09-22 — 4 pageviews2026-09-26 — 9 pageviews2026-09-30 — 6 pageviews2026-10-04 — 14 pageviews2026-10-08 — 9 pageviews2026-10-11 — 8 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam Trading CardsFamily Sharing

2 supported languages: English, Russian

Player tags

ActionFlightSci-fiSimulation

Census log

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

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