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Forbidden Planet

Faton · 2016-01-11

Steam

IndieStrategy

Modes: Single player

Releases: Jan 11, 2016 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

"Forbidden Planet" is a Space Strategy and Tower Defence like Game. You control a small spaceship and your main goal is to protect your own home planet. Explore the universe for resources. Colonize other planets. Defend from the asteroids.

0
playing now
52%
positive of 360 reviews
Mixed
steam rating
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
40/100
IGDB user rating (1 ratings)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$4.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 04:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 41% of 18,104 Indie games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 9.0k–22k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 360 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.07 at IndieGala Store (2018-04-30) · bundled 6×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $4.99 · on sale 11 of 22 observed days (census price snapshots)

Players online

2302026-08-06 23:00 — 0 players2026-08-07 07:00 — 1 players2026-08-07 15:00 — 2 players2026-08-07 23:00 — 0 players2026-08-08 07:00 — 1 players2026-08-08 15:00 — 1 players2026-08-08 23:00 — 2 players2026-08-09 07:00 — 0 players2026-08-09 15:00 — 3 players2026-08-09 23:00 — 23 players2026-08-10 07:00 — 0 players2026-08-10 15:00 — 0 players2026-08-10 23:00 — 0 players2026-08-11 07:00 — 2 players2026-08-11 16:00 — 0 players2026-08-12 23:00 — 0 players2026-08-14 07:00 — 0 players2026-08-15 15:00 — 0 players2026-08-16 23:00 — 0 players2026-08-18 06:00 — 1 players2026-08-19 14:00 — 0 players2026-08-20 21:00 — 0 players2026-08-22 05:00 — 0 players2026-08-23 12:00 — 0 players2026-08-24 20:00 — 0 players2026-08-26 04:00 — 2 players2026-08-27 12:00 — 0 players2026-08-28 20:00 — 1 players2026-08-30 04:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$8.99$0.072016-01-112026-08-052016-01-11 — best price $1.792016-03-14 — best price $1.192016-05-12 — best price $3.992016-06-23 — best price $0.492016-07-19 — best price $0.242016-08-15 — best price $0.492016-09-26 — best price $0.992016-10-28 — best price $0.492016-11-29 — best price $0.992017-02-27 — best price $0.502017-04-10 — best price $0.492017-09-03 — best price $0.492017-10-26 — best price $0.492018-01-24 — best price $0.092018-02-25 — best price $3.992018-04-02 — best price $0.512018-05-15 — best price $0.392018-06-25 — best price $0.492018-08-06 — best price $0.492018-10-30 — best price $0.662023-06-16 — best price $0.282023-08-17 — best price $4.992023-11-13 — best price $4.992024-01-04 — best price $4.992024-03-06 — best price $4.992024-05-05 — best price $4.992024-07-11 — best price $4.992024-10-06 — best price $4.992024-12-04 — best price $4.992025-02-21 — best price $4.992025-04-07 — best price $4.992025-07-10 — best price $4.992025-09-21 — best price $4.992025-11-05 — best price $4.992026-01-05 — best price $4.992026-03-15 — best price $4.992026-04-28 — best price $4.992026-08-05 — best price $4.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam Trading CardsFamily Sharing

2 supported languages: English, Russian

Player tags

IndieSpaceStrategyTower Defense

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.