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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.

Intake is a 2013 Action, Indie game priced at $9.99, with an estimated 50,000 .. 100,000 owners and Very Positive (91% of 396 reviews) sentiment.

0
playing now
91%
positive of 397 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
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 2026-10-14 18:00 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 up 33% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (13 reviews).
  • · Top 23% of 27,682 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-31

Estimated sales: 16k–32k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 397 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 3 of 6 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
131320132026Week of 2013-11-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2013-12-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2014-01-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2014-02-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2014-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2014-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2014-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2014-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2014-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2014-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2014-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2014-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2014-11-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2014-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2014-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2014-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-02-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2015-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2015-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

102026-09-15 03:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 12:00 — 0 players2026-09-17 19:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 03:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 10:00 — 0 players2026-09-21 18:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 01:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 09:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 16:00 — 0 players2026-09-27 00:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 07:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 15:00 — 0 players2026-09-30 22:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 06:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 13:00 — 0 players2026-10-04 22:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 05:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 13:00 — 0 players2026-10-08 20:00 — 1 players2026-10-10 04:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 11:00 — 0 players2026-10-12 19:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 02:00 — 1 players2026-10-14 18:00 — 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).

Completion

60+
achievements tracked
45.9%
earned "SOS"
9.6%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam CloudStatsSteam LeaderboardsFamily Sharing

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)2,2401%77

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

Player tags

IndieMusicActionArcadeShooterAddictiveDifficultFast-PacedScore AttackGreat Soundtrack

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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