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Intake cover art

Intake

Cipher Prime Studios · 2013-11-06

Steam

ActionIndie

Modes: Single player

Releases: Oct 03, 2013 (Mac), Oct 24, 2013 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Intake is the new retro-futuristic drugstep arcade shooter from Cipher Prime. In this polychromatic love child of Dr. Mario and Ikaruga, you battle a never-ending barrage of pills, pushing your skill and reflexes to the limit to avoid a lethal dosage.

0
playing now
91%
positive of 396 reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
80/100
critic score (1 outlets, IGDB)
80/100
IGDB user rating (2 ratings)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$9.99
steam price (US)

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

Health check

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  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 49% of 10,791 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 16k–32k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 396 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.99 at Humble Store (2014-07-14) · bundled 7×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $9.99 · on sale 4 of 8 observed days (census price snapshots)

Players online

002026-08-11 20:00 — 0 players2026-08-12 12:00 — 0 players2026-08-13 03:00 — 0 players2026-08-13 19:00 — 0 players2026-08-14 11:00 — 0 players2026-08-15 03:00 — 0 players2026-08-15 19:00 — 0 players2026-08-16 11:00 — 0 players2026-08-17 03:00 — 0 players2026-08-17 18:00 — 0 players2026-08-18 10:00 — 0 players2026-08-19 02:00 — 0 players2026-08-19 18:00 — 0 players2026-08-20 10:00 — 0 players2026-08-21 01:00 — 0 players2026-08-21 17:00 — 0 players2026-08-22 09:00 — 0 players2026-08-23 01:00 — 0 players2026-08-23 16:00 — 0 players2026-08-24 08:00 — 0 players2026-08-25 00:00 — 0 players2026-08-25 16:00 — 0 players2026-08-26 08:00 — 0 players2026-08-27 01:00 — 0 players2026-08-27 17:00 — 0 players2026-08-28 09:00 — 0 players2026-08-29 00:00 — 0 players2026-08-29 16:00 — 0 players2026-08-30 08:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$9.99$0.992015-01-012026-07-092015-01-01 — best price $4.992015-09-03 — best price $0.992015-12-01 — best price $9.992016-01-29 — best price $4.992016-03-15 — best price $9.992016-04-25 — best price $9.992016-05-23 — best price $0.992016-06-20 — best price $9.992016-07-05 — best price $2.492016-09-08 — best price $2.992016-11-07 — best price $9.992016-12-07 — best price $9.992017-01-24 — best price $9.992017-11-28 — best price $9.992018-01-18 — best price $9.992018-09-07 — best price $3.492019-08-29 — best price $1.992019-09-27 — best price $9.992020-05-11 — best price $9.992020-09-28 — best price $9.992021-02-19 — best price $9.992021-04-22 — best price $9.992021-06-30 — best price $9.992021-10-07 — best price $9.992022-05-15 — best price $9.992022-12-08 — best price $9.992024-11-27 — best price $3.992025-03-13 — best price $3.992025-09-29 — best price $3.992026-03-19 — best price $3.992026-07-09 — best price $9.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

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Player tags

IndieMusicActionArcadeShooterAddictiveDifficultFast-PacedScore AttackGreat Soundtrack

Census log

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

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