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Halo: Spartan Assault

Vanguard Games · Xbox Game Studios · 2014-04-04

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Action

Franchise: Halo · Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative · Perspectives: Third person, Bird view / Isometric

Releases: Jan 31, 2014 (Xbox One), Jan 31, 2014 (Xbox 360), Apr 16, 2015 (iOS), Jul 18, 2013 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Jul 18, 2013 (Windows Phone)

Halo: Spartan Assault brings the excitement of Halo combat to Steam for the very first time. Battle your way through 30 action-packed missions against the Covenant as you explore the origin of the Spartan Ops program featured in Halo 4. *DirectX feature level 10 required. *

Halo: Spartan Assault is an Action game released in 2014, priced at $2.99, with an estimated 200,000 .. 500,000 owners and a Mostly Positive review sentiment (78% of 4910 reviews).

3
playing now
78%
positive of 4.9k reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
66/100
critic score (10 outlets, IGDB)
65/100
IGDB user rating (63 ratings)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$0.80
steam price (US)

3 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 12:00 UTC (census sample)

Halo: Spartan Assault is a twin-stick shooter video game developed by 343 Industries and Vanguard Games. Part of the Halo franchise, the game was released on July 18, 2013, for Microsoft's Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 platforms. The game was subsequently released on Xbox 360, Xbox One, Steam, and iOS. Halo: Spartan Assault is set between the events of Halo 3 and Halo 4. Players control the human soldiers Sarah Palmer and Edward Davis as they fight a new splinter faction of the alien Covenant. The game launched with 25 single-player missions; an additional campaign was released as downloadable content. The console versions also feature an exclusive cooperative horde mode.

Trailer

Halo: Spartan Assault trailer thumbnail

Halo: Spartan Assault - Launch Trailer

≈1,000,000 YouTube results for this game's trailer search

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 3 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 176 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~22/week).
  • · Review velocity up 36% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 7% of 27,649 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 123k–296k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 4,927 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

Microsoft Store$2.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $0.74 at Steam (2020-11-25)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $2.99 · on sale 7 of 21 observed days · $2.25 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
484820182026Week of 2018-01-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2018-02-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2018-03-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2018-04-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-05-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2018-06-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-07-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2018-08-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2018-09-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2018-10-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2018-11-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2018-12-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-01-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2019-02-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-03-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2019-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-05-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-06-01: 29 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 32 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2019-08-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2019-09-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2019-12-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2020-02-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2020-03-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 48 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 30 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 32 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 35 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 29 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 33 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 2 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

1312026-09-14 22:00 — 6 players2026-09-16 06:00 — 2 players2026-09-17 13:00 — 2 players2026-09-18 21:00 — 2 players2026-09-20 04:00 — 1 players2026-09-21 12:00 — 4 players2026-09-22 20:00 — 1 players2026-09-24 03:00 — 5 players2026-09-25 11:00 — 6 players2026-09-26 18:00 — 4 players2026-09-28 02:00 — 2 players2026-09-29 09:00 — 3 players2026-09-30 17:00 — 4 players2026-10-02 00:00 — 6 players2026-10-03 08:00 — 2 players2026-10-04 16:00 — 13 players2026-10-05 23:00 — 5 players2026-10-07 07:00 — 2 players2026-10-08 14:00 — 4 players2026-10-09 22:00 — 9 players2026-10-11 05:00 — 6 players2026-10-12 13:00 — 5 players2026-10-13 21:00 — 5 players2026-10-14 12:00 — 3 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
1003Apr 2014Aug 2026Apr 2014 — avg 100 · peak 572Aug 2014 — avg 50 · peak 505Dec 2014 — avg 61 · peak 528Apr 2015 — avg 28 · peak 109Aug 2015 — avg 14 · peak 34Dec 2015 — avg 17 · peak 47Apr 2016 — avg 9 · peak 35Aug 2016 — avg 9 · peak 22Dec 2016 — avg 12 · peak 31Apr 2017 — avg 9 · peak 24Aug 2017 — avg 6 · peak 17Dec 2017 — avg 10 · peak 28Apr 2018 — avg 5 · peak 15Aug 2018 — avg 5 · peak 15Dec 2018 — avg 5 · peak 17Apr 2019 — avg 6 · peak 17Aug 2019 — avg 5 · peak 14Dec 2019 — avg 8 · peak 20Apr 2020 — avg 19 · peak 83Aug 2020 — avg 6 · peak 17Dec 2020 — avg 8 · peak 28Apr 2021 — avg 12 · peak 66Aug 2021 — avg 5 · peak 13Dec 2021 — avg 9 · peak 42Apr 2022 — avg 7 · peak 19Aug 2022 — avg 4 · peak 21Dec 2022 — avg 6 · peak 105Apr 2023 — avg 5 · peak 16Aug 2023 — avg 3 · peak 11Dec 2023 — avg 5 · peak 17Apr 2024 — avg 5 · peak 13Aug 2024 — avg 3 · peak 9Dec 2024 — avg 4 · peak 14Apr 2025 — avg 4 · peak 14Aug 2025 — avg 3 · peak 8Dec 2025 — avg 5 · peak 13Apr 2026 — avg 9 · peak 31Aug 2026 — avg 4 · peak 14
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$4.99$0.742015-01-012026-10-142015-01-01 — best price $1.992015-06-12 — best price $1.692015-09-15 — best price $4.992016-01-04 — best price $4.992016-06-23 — best price $1.492016-12-22 — best price $1.492017-11-23 — best price $1.192018-02-15 — best price $1.192018-09-20 — best price $2.992018-11-21 — best price $1.492018-12-20 — best price $1.492019-02-11 — best price $2.992019-07-09 — best price $2.992019-12-03 — best price $2.992020-01-27 — best price $2.992020-05-21 — best price $4.992020-12-01 — best price $2.992021-01-05 — best price $2.992021-02-16 — best price $2.992021-07-08 — best price $2.992022-01-05 — best price $2.992022-04-15 — best price $2.992022-07-07 — best price $2.992022-11-29 — best price $2.992023-01-31 — best price $2.992023-05-04 — best price $2.992023-07-13 — best price $2.992023-11-28 — best price $2.992024-02-13 — best price $2.992024-06-23 — best price $2.992024-09-27 — best price $2.992025-01-02 — best price $2.992025-03-20 — best price $2.992025-07-10 — best price $2.992025-12-02 — best price $2.992026-03-26 — best price $2.992026-06-16 — best price $2.992026-09-02 — best price $2.992026-09-28 — best price $0.802026-10-14 — best price $2.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

302612026-05-13 — 80 pageviews2026-05-17 — 82 pageviews2026-05-21 — 87 pageviews2026-05-25 — 80 pageviews2026-05-29 — 61 pageviews2026-06-02 — 90 pageviews2026-06-06 — 86 pageviews2026-06-10 — 147 pageviews2026-06-14 — 131 pageviews2026-06-18 — 90 pageviews2026-06-22 — 110 pageviews2026-06-26 — 131 pageviews2026-06-30 — 80 pageviews2026-07-04 — 130 pageviews2026-07-08 — 120 pageviews2026-07-12 — 88 pageviews2026-07-16 — 98 pageviews2026-07-20 — 116 pageviews2026-07-24 — 189 pageviews2026-07-28 — 224 pageviews2026-08-01 — 229 pageviews2026-08-05 — 205 pageviews2026-08-09 — 195 pageviews2026-08-13 — 140 pageviews2026-08-17 — 137 pageviews2026-08-21 — 111 pageviews2026-08-25 — 115 pageviews2026-08-29 — 108 pageviews2026-09-02 — 85 pageviews2026-09-06 — 114 pageviews2026-09-10 — 79 pageviews2026-09-14 — 73 pageviews2026-09-18 — 92 pageviews2026-09-22 — 302 pageviews2026-09-26 — 153 pageviews2026-09-30 — 136 pageviews2026-10-04 — 115 pageviews2026-10-08 — 100 pageviews2026-10-12 — 103 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

25
achievements tracked
80.9%
earned "Recruit"
5.4%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam Trading CardsPartial Controller SupportSteam CloudSteam LeaderboardsFamily Sharing

10 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Dutch, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Xbox One (Xbox)50,8933%30
Steam (Steam)14,8854%25
Windows 8, Windows (Xbox)7,42110%25
Xbox 360 (Xbox)5,53412%28
WP (Xbox)4,34010%25
iOS (Xbox)8120%25

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

Where its players are

Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.

Player tags

ActionAliensArcadeSci-fiShooterStrategyTop-DownAdventureFuturisticMultiplayer

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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