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Galacticon cover art

Galacticon

Radin Games · Flynn's Arcade · 2022-05-20

SteamPlayStation Store

ActionIndie

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Side view

Releases: Jul 18, 2025 (PlayStation 5), May 22, 2022 (Nintendo Switch), May 20, 2022 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Jul 18, 2025 (PlayStation 4)

Galacticon is a video game with the look and feel of arcade cabinet games from the early 80's in the style of Williams classics: "Defender" or "Joust", with the gameplay of legendary "Jetpac", and with touches of "puzzle".

100%
positive of 56 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$4.99
steam price (US)

Humans are tiny creatures of an outer belt planet that thanks to their biomechanical monstrosities have invaded, exploited ans enslaved most species in the galaxy. The interestellar council has met for the first time in eons ans has determined that there is only one option left to exterminate this plague... an option that has always been feared beacuse it could be as powerful as dangerous: Invoke the Galacticon, a deadly legendary creature -half God, half machine- and pray everything goes well...(Storyline via IGDB)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 10 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 33% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 62% of 17,259 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 1.1k–2.5k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 56 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $1.49 at Steam (2024-12-20)via IsThereAnyDeal

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
202020222026Week of 2022-05-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportFamily Sharing

Player tags

2DSpaceActionArcadeRobotsSci-fiFantasyShooterControllerPlatformer

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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