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Gamma Bros cover art

Gamma Bros

Pixeljam · Akupara Games · 2018-12-10

Steam

ActionIndieFree To Play

Modes: Single player

Releases: May 26, 2016 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Jun 25, 2006 (Web browser), May 26, 2016 (Mac)

Guide the Gamma Brothers through waves of alien attacks, blasting your way home from work in this frantic twin-stick space shooter about brotherly love.

Gamma Bros is an Action, Indie and Free To Play game released in 2018, priced at free-to-play, with an estimated 20,000 .. 50,000 owners and a Very Positive review sentiment (93% of 166 reviews).

0
playing now
93%
positive of 166 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
70/100
IGDB user rating (3 ratings)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
Free
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 23:00 UTC (census sample)

Gamma Bros is a 2006 Flash shoot 'em up game developed and published by American game indie studio PixelJAM Games, released as a free online title. It was nominated for "Best Web Browser Game" at the 2007 Independent Games Festival. It was the studio's first game after the mini-game Ratmaze. The game was also released as a smartphone game in 2016.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 12 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity up 9% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 32% of 27,841 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-01

All-time low: $1.24 at Humble Store (2018-01-11) · bundled 4×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $0.00 · on sale 1 of 1 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
262620162026Week of 2016-05-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2016-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 26 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-01-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-02-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-11-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 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 2023-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 3 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

102026-09-15 08:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 16:00 — 0 players2026-09-18 00:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 07:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 15:00 — 0 players2026-09-21 23:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 06:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 14:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 21:00 — 0 players2026-09-27 05:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 12:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 20:00 — 0 players2026-10-01 03:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 11:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 19:00 — 0 players2026-10-05 03:00 — 1 players2026-10-06 10:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 18:00 — 0 players2026-10-09 01:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 09:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 16:00 — 0 players2026-10-13 00:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 07:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 23:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$4.99$0.002016-05-262026-07-232016-05-26 — best price $4.492016-06-02 — best price $4.992016-09-01 — best price $3.992016-09-05 — best price $4.992016-09-08 — best price $3.992016-09-19 — best price $3.742016-09-22 — best price $4.992016-09-26 — best price $4.992016-11-23 — best price $3.492016-11-29 — best price $4.992016-12-05 — best price $3.492016-12-12 — best price $4.992016-12-22 — best price $3.492017-01-02 — best price $4.992017-01-12 — best price $3.342017-01-26 — best price $4.992017-02-06 — best price $3.342017-02-13 — best price $4.992017-04-10 — best price $3.342017-04-17 — best price $4.992017-05-11 — best price $1.692017-05-25 — best price $4.992017-06-22 — best price $3.342017-07-05 — best price $4.992017-08-14 — best price $3.242017-08-21 — best price $4.992017-10-16 — best price $2.492017-10-23 — best price $4.992017-10-26 — best price $1.642017-11-01 — best price $4.992017-11-22 — best price $2.492017-11-28 — best price $4.992017-12-21 — best price $1.692018-01-04 — best price $4.992018-01-11 — best price $1.242018-01-25 — best price $4.992018-02-15 — best price $1.492018-02-19 — best price $4.992018-11-29 — best price $0.002026-07-23 — best price $0.00
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

1002026-05-29 — 1 pageviews2026-06-02 — 6 pageviews2026-06-06 — 3 pageviews2026-06-10 — 4 pageviews2026-06-14 — 4 pageviews2026-06-18 — 2 pageviews2026-06-22 — 3 pageviews2026-06-26 — 6 pageviews2026-06-30 — 1 pageviews2026-07-04 — 3 pageviews2026-07-08 — 6 pageviews2026-07-12 — 4 pageviews2026-07-16 — 1 pageviews2026-07-20 — 1 pageviews2026-07-24 — 3 pageviews2026-07-28 — 3 pageviews2026-08-01 — 1 pageviews2026-08-05 — 3 pageviews2026-08-09 — 2 pageviews2026-08-13 — 6 pageviews2026-08-17 — 4 pageviews2026-08-21 — 3 pageviews2026-08-25 — 5 pageviews2026-08-29 — 1 pageviews2026-09-02 — 1 pageviews2026-09-06 — 3 pageviews2026-09-10 — 4 pageviews2026-09-14 — 1 pageviews2026-09-18 — 4 pageviews2026-09-22 — 7 pageviews2026-09-26 — 10 pageviews2026-09-30 — 6 pageviews2026-10-04 — 2 pageviews2026-10-07 — 2 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

6
achievements tracked
31.6%
earned "Triple Threat"
15.5%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam LeaderboardsFamily Sharing1 DLC

1 supported languages: English

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2019-10-21 (Steam store data)

Player tags

2DIndieSpaceActionFree to PlayShoot 'Em UpPixel GraphicsTwin Stick Shooter

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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