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Idle Space Raider

Coconut Shavers · 2019-02-05

Steam

CasualFree To PlayStrategy

Modes: Single player

Releases: Feb 05, 2019 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

You are one of the station guards and need to patrol space. Complete missions and raids, upgrade ship and station to increase your power. Complete missions, mine ore, kill enemies, research new tech, return to base to upgrade ship and repeat.

Idle Space Raider is a free-to-play Casual, Free To Play, and Strategy game released in 2019, with an estimated 50,000 to 100,000 owners and a Mostly Positive review sentiment (73% of 248 reviews).

16
playing now
73%
positive of 248 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Free
steam price (US)

16 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 19:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 16 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 11 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 31% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (42 reviews).
  • · Top 19% of 29,066 Casual games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-01

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
272720192026Week of 2019-02-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2019-03-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2019-04-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-05-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2019-06-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2019-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-11-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2019-12-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-03-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 2 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

2192026-09-15 04:00 — 13 players2026-09-16 12:00 — 16 players2026-09-17 20:00 — 15 players2026-09-19 03:00 — 12 players2026-09-20 11:00 — 12 players2026-09-21 18:00 — 19 players2026-09-23 02:00 — 17 players2026-09-24 09:00 — 17 players2026-09-25 17:00 — 16 players2026-09-27 00:00 — 18 players2026-09-28 08:00 — 18 players2026-09-29 15:00 — 11 players2026-09-30 23:00 — 14 players2026-10-02 06:00 — 13 players2026-10-03 14:00 — 11 players2026-10-04 22:00 — 12 players2026-10-06 06:00 — 9 players2026-10-07 13:00 — 17 players2026-10-08 21:00 — 16 players2026-10-10 04:00 — 19 players2026-10-11 12:00 — 14 players2026-10-12 19:00 — 16 players2026-10-14 03:00 — 12 players2026-10-14 19:00 — 16 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
32513Feb 2019Aug 2026Feb 2019 — avg 325 · peak 424May 2019 — avg 250 · peak 305Aug 2019 — avg 235 · peak 287Nov 2019 — avg 222 · peak 288Feb 2020 — avg 198 · peak 254May 2020 — avg 219 · peak 281Aug 2020 — avg 191 · peak 239Nov 2020 — avg 135 · peak 166Feb 2021 — avg 105 · peak 151May 2021 — avg 68 · peak 95Aug 2021 — avg 60 · peak 86Nov 2021 — avg 54 · peak 72Feb 2022 — avg 55 · peak 79May 2022 — avg 42 · peak 58Aug 2022 — avg 40 · peak 61Nov 2022 — avg 32 · peak 44Feb 2023 — avg 38 · peak 52May 2023 — avg 39 · peak 56Aug 2023 — avg 33 · peak 59Nov 2023 — avg 37 · peak 56Feb 2024 — avg 38 · peak 53May 2024 — avg 32 · peak 45Aug 2024 — avg 30 · peak 41Nov 2024 — avg 26 · peak 39Feb 2025 — avg 27 · peak 39May 2025 — avg 27 · peak 40Aug 2025 — avg 22 · peak 34Nov 2025 — avg 22 · peak 36Feb 2026 — avg 21 · peak 30May 2026 — avg 16 · peak 26Aug 2026 — avg 13 · peak 21
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Completion

60+
achievements tracked
84.2%
earned "Kills - 1"
12.9%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsIn-App PurchasesSteam CloudStatsSteam LeaderboardsFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)1,5375%80

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

Player tags

IdlerCasualClickerStrategyFree to Play

Census log

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

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