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Helium cover art

Helium

rocketship · 2017-03-10

Steam

ActionAdventureIndie

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: First person

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.

Helium is a 2017 Action, Adventure, Indie game priced at $0.99, with an estimated 20,000 .. 50,000 owners and a Mixed review sentiment (51% of 112 reviews).

0
playing now
51%
positive of 112 reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
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)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$0.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 08:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 4 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 20% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 37% of 27,649 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-01

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

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
101020172026Week of 2017-03-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2017-03-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2017-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-06-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2017-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2017-10-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2017-12-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2018-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

102026-09-15 09:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 17:00 — 0 players2026-09-18 00:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 08:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 15:00 — 0 players2026-09-21 23:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 07:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 14:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 22:00 — 0 players2026-09-27 05:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 13:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 20:00 — 0 players2026-10-01 04:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 11:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 19:00 — 0 players2026-10-05 03:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 11:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 18:00 — 0 players2026-10-09 02:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 09:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 17:00 — 0 players2026-10-13 00:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 08:00 — 0 players
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).

Completion

9
achievements tracked
48.9%
earned "Odyssey"
15.7%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

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.