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Galactic Arms Race

Evolutionary Games · 2014-06-05

Steam

ActionCasualIndie

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative

Releases: May 31, 2014 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Top-down 2.5D action that combines old-school shooters like Star Control, action-RPGs like Diablo, with a system that evolves unique weapons to player preferences. Single-player and 32-player online coop and PVP.

0
playing now
46%
positive of 84 reviews
Mixed
steam rating
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
60/100
IGDB user rating (3 ratings)
bronze
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$2.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 15:00 UTC (census sample)

Galactic Arms Race (GAR) is a space shooter video game first released in 2010 by American studio Evolutionary Games in association with the Evolutionary Complexity Research Group at UCF (EPlex).

Health check

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  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 71% of 10,936 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 2.1k–5.0k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 84 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $1.01 at Steam (2016-02-05) · bundled 8×via IsThereAnyDeal

Players online

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

Price history

$2.99$1.012015-01-012018-05-162015-01-01 — best price $1.192015-01-02 — best price $2.992015-01-07 — best price $2.992015-06-11 — best price $1.492015-06-22 — best price $2.992015-11-26 — best price $1.492015-12-01 — best price $2.992015-12-22 — best price $1.492016-01-04 — best price $2.992016-02-05 — best price $1.012016-02-12 — best price $2.992016-06-23 — best price $1.492016-07-04 — best price $2.992016-12-22 — best price $1.492017-01-02 — best price $2.992017-06-22 — best price $1.492017-07-05 — best price $2.992018-05-01 — best price $1.012018-05-16 — best price $2.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

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

Details

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Census log

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

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