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Galactic Arms Race cover art

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.

Galactic Arms Race is an Action, Casual, and Indie game released in 2014, priced at $2.99, with an estimated 20,000 to 50,000 owners and a Mixed review sentiment (46% of 84 reviews).

0
playing now
46%
positive of 84 reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
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 2026-10-14 08:00 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

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 2 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~0/week).
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (7 reviews).
  • · Top 42% of 27,649 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-01

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

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
4420142025Week of 2014-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2014-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2014-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2014-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2014-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2014-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

102026-09-15 09:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 17:00 — 0 players2026-09-18 01:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 08:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 16:00 — 0 players2026-09-22 00:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 07:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 15:00 — 1 players2026-09-25 22:00 — 0 players2026-09-27 06:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 13:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 21:00 — 0 players2026-10-01 04:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 12:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 20:00 — 0 players2026-10-05 04:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 11:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 19:00 — 0 players2026-10-09 02:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 10:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 17:00 — 0 players2026-10-13 01:00 — 1 players2026-10-14 08:00 — 0 players
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).

Completion

50
achievements tracked
18.2%
earned "First encounter"
2.8%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerMulti-playerCo-opSteam AchievementsSteam Trading CardsSteam CloudStatsFamily Sharing

Player tags

IndieSpaceActionCasual

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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