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It came from space and ate our brains

Triangle Studios · 2015-03-19

SteamPlayStation StoreMicrosoft Store

ActionCasualIndie

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative · Perspectives: Third person

Releases: Mar 19, 2015 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Jan 28, 2020 (Xbox One), Jan 27, 2020 (Nintendo Switch), Mar 19, 2015 (Mac), Mar 02, 2021 (Google Stadia), Jan 28, 2020 (PlayStation 4)

It came from space and ate our brains is a unique Arcade top-down shooter. Looking for addicting gameplay, four-player co-op mode, and tons of aliens to send into oblivion? You’ve come to the right place!

It came from space and ate our brains is an Action, Casual and Indie game released in 2015, priced at $9.99, with an estimated 200,000 to 500,000 owners and a Mostly Positive review sentiment (80% of 518 reviews).

0
playing now
80%
positive of 519 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
70/100
critic score (1 outlets, IGDB)
80/100
IGDB user rating (2 ratings)
4.05★
PlayStation Store rating (40 ratings)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Verified
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$9.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 14:00 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.
  • · Top 20% of 27,649 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-31

Estimated sales: 13k–31k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 519 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

Microsoft Store$14.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $0.01 at Humble Widgets (2014-02-28) · bundled 5×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $14.99 · on sale 0 of 7 observed days · $14.98 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
8820152026Week of 2015-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2015-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2015-08-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2015-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2015-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2015-10-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2015-11-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2015-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2015-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-01-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2016-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2016-02-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2016-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2016-05-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2016-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-07-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2016-08-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2016-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2016-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2016-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2017-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2017-02-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2017-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2017-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2017-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

102026-09-14 23:00 — 1 players2026-09-16 07:00 — 0 players2026-09-17 15:00 — 1 players2026-09-18 22:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 06:00 — 0 players2026-09-21 13:00 — 0 players2026-09-22 21:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 04:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 12:00 — 0 players2026-09-26 19:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 03:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 10:00 — 0 players2026-09-30 18:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 01:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 09:00 — 0 players2026-10-04 17:00 — 1 players2026-10-06 01:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 08:00 — 0 players2026-10-08 16:00 — 0 players2026-10-09 23:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 07:00 — 1 players2026-10-12 14:00 — 0 players2026-10-13 22:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 14:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
300Mar 2015Dec 2020Mar 2015 — avg 2 · peak 16May 2015 — avg 30 · peak 190Jul 2015 — avg 4 · peak 14Sep 2015 — avg 10 · peak 30Nov 2015 — avg 20 · peak 82Jan 2016 — avg 11 · peak 28Mar 2016 — avg 5 · peak 15May 2016 — avg 5 · peak 22Jul 2016 — avg 4 · peak 14Sep 2016 — avg 7 · peak 29Nov 2016 — avg 3 · peak 11Jan 2017 — avg 3 · peak 10Mar 2017 — avg 2 · peak 9May 2017 — avg 2 · peak 22Jul 2017 — avg 2 · peak 9Sep 2017 — avg 2 · peak 8Nov 2017 — avg 1 · peak 8Jan 2018 — avg 1 · peak 9Mar 2018 — avg 1 · peak 4May 2018 — avg 1 · peak 7Jul 2018 — avg 1 · peak 5Sep 2018 — avg 1 · peak 11Nov 2018 — avg 1 · peak 6Jan 2019 — avg 0 · peak 5Mar 2019 — avg 0 · peak 6May 2019 — avg 0 · peak 4Jul 2019 — avg 0 · peak 4Sep 2019 — avg 0 · peak 4Dec 2019 — avg 0 · peak 3Feb 2020 — avg 2 · peak 14Apr 2020 — avg 2 · peak 9Jun 2020 — avg 1 · peak 5Aug 2020 — avg 1 · peak 7Oct 2020 — avg 1 · peak 5Dec 2020 — avg 1 · peak 5

No change (0) in avg players vs prior month — Dec 2020

Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$14.99$0.012015-01-012026-10-112015-01-01 — best price $0.012015-06-11 — best price $4.992015-07-21 — best price $4.992015-08-24 — best price $9.992015-09-11 — best price $4.992015-11-25 — best price $4.992016-01-15 — best price $4.992016-02-10 — best price $9.992016-03-17 — best price $5.312016-03-31 — best price $4.992016-05-23 — best price $4.992016-07-07 — best price $2.402016-09-02 — best price $4.992016-10-10 — best price $9.992016-11-29 — best price $9.992017-01-02 — best price $9.992017-03-06 — best price $4.992017-05-18 — best price $3.992017-07-18 — best price $3.392017-09-05 — best price $4.992017-11-16 — best price $4.992018-01-06 — best price $9.992018-07-05 — best price $9.992019-04-02 — best price $0.202020-02-07 — best price $9.992020-04-17 — best price $9.992020-05-30 — best price $9.992020-06-17 — best price $9.992020-08-26 — best price $14.992020-10-04 — best price $9.992020-11-25 — best price $8.992021-06-24 — best price $7.492021-11-24 — best price $6.742022-01-27 — best price $3.742022-07-07 — best price $14.992025-02-10 — best price $1.992026-09-13 — best price $14.992026-10-11 — best price $14.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

57
achievements tracked
57.2%
earned "Brainless"
5.9%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerMulti-playerCo-opShared/Split Screen Co-opShared/Split ScreenSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam Trading CardsSteam CloudRemote Play Together1 DLC

11 supported languages: English, Simplified Chinese, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Dutch, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese - Portugal, Portuguese - Brazil

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2021-12-14 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)3,1451%57
Xbox One (Xbox)1893%57
PS4 (PlayStation)803%58
PS4 (PlayStation)753%58
Switch (Nintendo)120%0

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

Player tags

RetroAliensArcadeShooterSurvivalTop-DownMinimalistTeam-BasedAtmosphericLocal Co-Op

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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