The Game Census
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Helium

rocketship · 2017-03-10

Steam

ActionAdventureIndie

Modes: Single player

Releases: Mar 10, 2017 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Hardcore sci-fi first person shooter. You are a liaison on Vega 237 spacecraft. All crew members died and you are all by yourself in the midst of an unknown planet. Your goal is to find out what happened to the crew and establish the signal's nature.

0
playing now
51%
positive of 112 reviews
Mixed
steam rating
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
10/100
critic score (1 outlets, IGDB)
50/100
IGDB user rating (5 ratings)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$0.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 13:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 67% of 10,936 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 2.8k–6.7k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 112 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.49 at Steam (2021-02-11) · bundled 4×via IsThereAnyDeal

Players online

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Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$4.99$0.492017-03-112023-03-232017-03-11 — best price $4.992017-07-05 — best price $4.992017-10-06 — best price $0.992017-11-22 — best price $0.992017-12-21 — best price $0.992018-06-21 — best price $0.992018-10-30 — best price $1.492018-11-21 — best price $1.492018-12-20 — best price $1.492020-02-07 — best price $0.992020-03-29 — best price $0.992020-05-11 — best price $4.992020-05-25 — best price $4.992020-06-26 — best price $0.992020-10-17 — best price $0.742020-11-26 — best price $0.692020-12-22 — best price $0.692021-02-11 — best price $0.492021-06-24 — best price $0.492021-09-22 — best price $0.492022-10-10 — best price $0.492022-11-22 — best price $0.492022-12-22 — best price $0.492023-03-16 — best price $0.492023-03-23 — best price $0.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Player tags

FPSIndieActionAdventure

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.