The Game Census
HEIANKYO ALIEN / 平安京エイリアン cover art

HEIANKYO ALIEN / 平安京エイリアン

Mindware · 2017-10-13

Steam

ActionIndie

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative

Releases: Oct 13, 2017 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

The Heiankyo Alien, developed on a personal computer and released in 1979 as an arcade game from Denki Onkyo, is now ported and arranged for Windows! Arranged version "Heiankyo Alien 3671" is a time-based game, overwhelmingly addictive and euphoric, with new features such as seven items buried in the field, various scoring...

86%
positive of 35 reviews
Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
74/100
IGDB user rating (1 ratings)
$13.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 9 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity up 50% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 75% of 14,570 Action games in the census by review count.

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
4420172025Week of 2017-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2017-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerMulti-playerCo-opShared/Split Screen Co-opShared/Split ScreenSteam AchievementsPartial Controller SupportSteam LeaderboardsRemote Play TogetherFamily Sharing

2 supported languages: Japanese, English

Census log

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

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