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Germ Wars

Svarog Studios · Back To Basics Gaming · 2016-11-21

Steam

ActionCasualIndie

Modes: Single player

Releases: Nov 21, 2016 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Take control of a determined White Blood Cell on a quest for self discovery, vengeance, punishment and annihilation of all evil germs who would dare infiltrate an unsuspecting and innocent human body in this unique and organic experience.

Germ Wars is a 2016 Action, Casual, and Indie game priced at $1.99, with a Mixed review sentiment (55% of 251 reviews) and an estimated 100,000 .. 200,000 owners.

1
playing now
55%
positive of 251 reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
50/100
IGDB user rating (0 ratings)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$1.99
steam price (US)

1 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 16:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 1 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 7 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 30% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 27% of 27,808 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-01

Estimated sales: 6.3k–15k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 251 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.49 at Steam (2017-02-27) · bundled 3×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $1.99 · on sale 8 of 15 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
4420162026Week of 2016-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2017-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2017-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

202026-09-15 17:00 — 1 players2026-09-17 01:00 — 0 players2026-09-18 09:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 16:00 — 0 players2026-09-21 00:00 — 1 players2026-09-22 07:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 15:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 22:00 — 0 players2026-09-26 06:00 — 0 players2026-09-27 13:00 — 1 players2026-09-28 21:00 — 1 players2026-09-30 04:00 — 0 players2026-10-01 12:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 19:00 — 0 players2026-10-04 03:00 — 0 players2026-10-05 11:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 19:00 — 1 players2026-10-08 02:00 — 1 players2026-10-09 10:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 17:00 — 0 players2026-10-12 01:00 — 0 players2026-10-13 08:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 16:00 — 1 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
1150Nov 2016Jan 2024Nov 2016 — avg 1 · peak 6Jan 2017 — avg 6 · peak 106Mar 2017 — avg 54 · peak 320May 2017 — avg 62 · peak 1,054Jul 2017 — avg 43 · peak 556Sep 2017 — avg 44 · peak 439Nov 2017 — avg 41 · peak 988Jan 2018 — avg 5 · peak 101Mar 2018 — avg 9 · peak 779May 2018 — avg 2 · peak 368Jul 2018 — avg 4 · peak 128Sep 2018 — avg 3 · peak 493Nov 2018 — avg 1 · peak 29Jan 2019 — avg 2 · peak 71Mar 2019 — avg 1 · peak 4May 2019 — avg 0 · peak 5Jul 2019 — avg 2 · peak 84Sep 2019 — avg 6 · peak 437Nov 2019 — avg 1 · peak 4Feb 2020 — avg 47 · peak 2,469Apr 2020 — avg 13 · peak 692Jun 2020 — avg 13 · peak 1,402Aug 2020 — avg 33 · peak 1,646Oct 2020 — avg 1 · peak 2Dec 2021 — avg 4 · peak 131Feb 2022 — avg 6 · peak 114May 2022 — avg 22 · peak 587Jul 2022 — avg 6 · peak 20Sep 2022 — avg 26 · peak 385Nov 2022 — avg 1 · peak 3Mar 2023 — avg 34 · peak 345May 2023 — avg 12 · peak 485Jul 2023 — avg 31 · peak 378Nov 2023 — avg 1 · peak 2Jan 2024 — avg 1 · peak 3

▼ −3 avg players (−77.6%) vs prior month — Jan 2024

Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$1.99$0.492016-11-212026-07-092016-11-21 — best price $0.882017-05-31 — best price $0.692017-08-28 — best price $0.492017-12-21 — best price $0.492018-02-15 — best price $0.492018-06-02 — best price $0.492018-10-30 — best price $0.492019-02-04 — best price $0.492019-06-25 — best price $0.492019-12-26 — best price $0.492020-02-08 — best price $0.492020-10-29 — best price $0.492020-12-22 — best price $0.492021-06-24 — best price $0.742021-12-22 — best price $0.492022-02-28 — best price $1.992022-06-22 — best price $1.992022-08-25 — best price $1.992022-12-13 — best price $1.992023-03-15 — best price $1.992023-04-28 — best price $1.992023-08-08 — best price $1.992023-11-28 — best price $1.992024-02-03 — best price $1.992024-05-01 — best price $1.992024-07-11 — best price $1.992024-11-04 — best price $1.992025-01-02 — best price $1.992025-03-20 — best price $1.992025-07-10 — best price $1.992025-10-06 — best price $1.992026-01-05 — best price $1.992026-03-18 — best price $1.992026-05-11 — best price $1.992026-07-09 — best price $1.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

55
achievements tracked
4.8%
earned "DEAD"
3.3%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam Trading CardsPartial Controller SupportFamily Sharing1 DLC

1 supported languages: English

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2017-02-27 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)1,26929%55

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

IndieActionArcadeCasualCartoonCartoonyGreat Soundtrack

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.