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Liquidators cover art

Liquidators

Gray Unit · 2020-09-30

Steam

AdventureIndieSimulationFree To Play

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: First person

Releases: Sep 07, 2020 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Chernobyl, USSR, 1986. Three nuclear plant workers go on a daring mission to prevent a radioactive fallout that would affect half of Europe. Every moment is permanent, and all is at stake.

Liquidators is a 2020 Adventure, Indie, Simulation and Free To Play game priced at free-to-play, with an estimated 50,000 to 100,000 owners and an Overwhelmingly Positive review sentiment (96% of 1229 reviews).

2
playing now
96%
positive of 1.2k reviews
Overwhelmingly Positive
steam's rating (official)
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
1h
to beat · rushed 1h
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
Free
steam price (US)

2 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 17:00 UTC (census sample)

Alexei Ananenko, Valeri Bezpalov, and Boris Baranov. These three men are the only reason the Chernobyl disaster didn’t devastate all of Europe for generations to come, and Liquidators is the only game that lets players experience how each of them managed to contain this nuclear catastrophe. You traverse the radioactive bowels of the blast site, carefully orienting your every step based on the readings of your Geiger counter. Each liquidator has their own set of skills, from stamina to crawling in vents, that gives players a variety of ways to approach the hazardous challenges between them and (Storyline via IGDB)

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 2 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 79 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~10/week).
  • · Review velocity up 1% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 12% of 28,771 Adventure games in the census by review count.

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
979720202026Week of 2020-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 97 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 54 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 29 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 37 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 26 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 35 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 97 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 34 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 32 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 10 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

302026-09-15 02:00 — 2 players2026-09-16 11:00 — 0 players2026-09-17 18:00 — 2 players2026-09-19 02:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 09:00 — 1 players2026-09-21 17:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 00:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 08:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 15:00 — 3 players2026-09-26 23:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 06:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 14:00 — 0 players2026-09-30 21:00 — 1 players2026-10-02 05:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 12:00 — 0 players2026-10-04 21:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 04:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 12:00 — 0 players2026-10-08 19:00 — 1 players2026-10-10 03:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 10:00 — 0 players2026-10-12 18:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 01:00 — 1 players2026-10-14 17:00 — 2 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerFamily Sharing

Player tags

1980sHorrorSurrealCold WarStylizedAdventureNonlinearRealisticHistoricalAtmospheric

Census log

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

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