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Fragile Allegiance

Gremlin Interactive · Alternative Software Ltd · 2015-06-30

SteamGOG

Strategy

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer · Perspectives: Third person

Releases: 1997 (DOS)

Assemble your fleets, fill your silos with nuclear warheads, conduct research, gather resources, and wage war in a vast galaxy in this unique take on 4X Strategy. Appoint Colony Supervisors to manage your colony and deploy Spy Satellites for the ultimate in skulduggery.

Fragile Allegiance is a Strategy game released in 2015, priced at $1.05, with an estimated 20,000 to 50,000 owners and Very Positive reviews (94% of 126 reviews).

3
playing now
94%
positive of 126 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
70/100
IGDB user rating (3 ratings)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$1.05
steam price (US)

3 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 08:00 UTC (census sample)

Fragile Allegiance is an open-ended 4X real-time strategy (RTS) game from Gremlin Interactive, released in 1996 for MS-DOS and Windows 95. The game begins on May 25, 2496, as the player begins their employment with TetraCorp who have set up a new asteroid mining franchise operation in the Fragmented Sectors. There are six alien races competing with Tetracorp for these resources. Beginning with one building and one million credits, the player is tasked with building up a successful mining operation to sell as much ore as possible to the Federation. Diplomacy is crucial to the success or failure of this franchise operation as the players' colonies begin to encroach on one another.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 3 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 11 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 21% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 38% of 14,082 Strategy games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-01

Estimated sales: 3.1k–7.6k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 126 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

GOG$1.19-80%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $1.05 at Steam (2024-12-19)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $5.99 · on sale 61 of 88 observed days · $0.14 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
3320152026Week of 2015-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2015-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2015-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2015-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2016-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2016-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 2 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

602026-09-15 09:00 — 4 players2026-09-16 17:00 — 2 players2026-09-18 00:00 — 2 players2026-09-19 08:00 — 3 players2026-09-20 15:00 — 6 players2026-09-21 23:00 — 2 players2026-09-23 07:00 — 3 players2026-09-24 14:00 — 3 players2026-09-25 22:00 — 3 players2026-09-27 05:00 — 5 players2026-09-28 13:00 — 2 players2026-09-29 20:00 — 3 players2026-10-01 04:00 — 1 players2026-10-02 11:00 — 4 players2026-10-03 19:00 — 3 players2026-10-05 03:00 — 1 players2026-10-06 10:00 — 1 players2026-10-07 18:00 — 1 players2026-10-09 01:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 09:00 — 2 players2026-10-11 17:00 — 0 players2026-10-13 00:00 — 4 players2026-10-14 08:00 — 3 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
31Jul 2015Aug 2026Jul 2015 — avg 2 · peak 10Nov 2015 — avg 1 · peak 6Mar 2016 — avg 2 · peak 6Jul 2016 — avg 1 · peak 5Nov 2016 — avg 1 · peak 3Mar 2017 — avg 1 · peak 5Jul 2017 — avg 1 · peak 7Nov 2017 — avg 1 · peak 6Mar 2018 — avg 1 · peak 7Jul 2018 — avg 1 · peak 6Nov 2018 — avg 1 · peak 5Mar 2019 — avg 1 · peak 6Jul 2019 — avg 1 · peak 7Nov 2019 — avg 2 · peak 5Mar 2020 — avg 2 · peak 7Jul 2020 — avg 2 · peak 6Nov 2020 — avg 2 · peak 6Mar 2021 — avg 2 · peak 7Jul 2021 — avg 1 · peak 4Nov 2021 — avg 3 · peak 8Mar 2022 — avg 2 · peak 9Jul 2022 — avg 2 · peak 6Nov 2022 — avg 2 · peak 7Mar 2023 — avg 2 · peak 5Jul 2023 — avg 2 · peak 6Dec 2023 — avg 2 · peak 6Apr 2024 — avg 1 · peak 4Aug 2024 — avg 2 · peak 6Dec 2024 — avg 2 · peak 9Apr 2025 — avg 3 · peak 7Nov 2025 — avg 3 · peak 7Aug 2026 — avg 3 · peak 6
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$5.99$1.052015-01-012026-10-142015-01-01 — best price $5.992015-10-19 — best price $3.992016-05-09 — best price $4.992016-11-14 — best price $5.992017-06-21 — best price $5.992018-02-19 — best price $4.992018-10-06 — best price $2.492019-02-04 — best price $2.492019-08-23 — best price $5.292020-02-14 — best price $2.112020-07-25 — best price $2.112021-01-22 — best price $1.852021-07-30 — best price $1.582021-12-22 — best price $1.582022-06-06 — best price $2.992022-09-30 — best price $5.292022-12-23 — best price $1.322023-06-05 — best price $1.322023-08-28 — best price $1.492023-12-21 — best price $3.222024-04-08 — best price $1.322024-06-27 — best price $1.322024-10-10 — best price $1.492024-12-19 — best price $1.052025-03-19 — best price $1.192025-06-18 — best price $1.192025-08-26 — best price $1.192025-10-07 — best price $1.192025-11-25 — best price $1.192026-01-23 — best price $1.192026-04-24 — best price $5.992026-07-24 — best price $4.992026-09-04 — best price $1.192026-09-14 — best price $5.992026-09-24 — best price $1.192026-10-04 — best price $1.192026-10-14 — best price $1.19
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

3172026-06-01 — 20 pageviews2026-06-05 — 9 pageviews2026-06-09 — 19 pageviews2026-06-13 — 7 pageviews2026-06-17 — 13 pageviews2026-06-21 — 10 pageviews2026-06-25 — 11 pageviews2026-06-29 — 13 pageviews2026-07-03 — 21 pageviews2026-07-07 — 16 pageviews2026-07-11 — 15 pageviews2026-07-15 — 14 pageviews2026-07-19 — 12 pageviews2026-07-23 — 16 pageviews2026-07-27 — 25 pageviews2026-07-31 — 12 pageviews2026-08-04 — 15 pageviews2026-08-08 — 16 pageviews2026-08-12 — 24 pageviews2026-08-16 — 16 pageviews2026-08-20 — 22 pageviews2026-08-24 — 15 pageviews2026-08-28 — 14 pageviews2026-09-01 — 16 pageviews2026-09-05 — 14 pageviews2026-09-09 — 9 pageviews2026-09-13 — 16 pageviews2026-09-17 — 18 pageviews2026-09-21 — 22 pageviews2026-09-25 — 25 pageviews2026-09-29 — 16 pageviews2026-10-03 — 17 pageviews2026-10-07 — 19 pageviews2026-10-11 — 20 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerFamily Sharing

Player tags

RetroSpaceClassicWargameStrategy

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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