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Madballs in Babo:Invasion cover art

Madballs in Babo:Invasion

Playbrains · 2009-09-17

SteamXbox

ActionCasualIndie

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative

Releases: Sep 17, 2009 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), May 31, 2010 (Xbox 360)

Now with cross-platform multiplayer! PC vs. Mac at last.

0
playing now
84%
positive of 298 reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
80/100
critic score (2 outlets, IGDB)
80/100
IGDB user rating (1 ratings)
8h
to beat · rushed 4h · completionist 12h
bronze
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$4.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 10:00 UTC (census sample)

Madballs in Babo: Invasion is an action video game developed by Canadian studio Playbrains. It was released on July 15, 2009 on Xbox Live Arcade and on September 17, 2009 for Microsoft Windows.

Health check

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 53% of 10,936 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 12k–24k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 298 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.99 at Steam (2016-10-28) · bundled 4×via IsThereAnyDeal

Players online

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Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$4.99$0.992015-01-012020-05-252015-01-01 — best price $2.492015-01-02 — best price $4.992015-06-11 — best price $1.992015-06-22 — best price $4.992015-10-29 — best price $1.242015-11-02 — best price $4.992015-11-25 — best price $2.492015-12-01 — best price $4.992015-12-22 — best price $2.492016-01-04 — best price $4.992016-06-23 — best price $1.992016-07-04 — best price $4.992016-10-28 — best price $0.992016-11-01 — best price $4.992016-11-23 — best price $1.992016-11-29 — best price $4.992016-12-22 — best price $1.992017-01-02 — best price $4.992017-06-22 — best price $1.492017-07-05 — best price $4.992017-10-26 — best price $1.992017-11-01 — best price $4.992017-11-22 — best price $1.992017-11-28 — best price $4.992017-12-21 — best price $1.992018-01-04 — best price $4.992018-06-21 — best price $1.492018-07-05 — best price $4.992018-10-30 — best price $1.992018-11-01 — best price $4.992018-11-21 — best price $1.992018-11-28 — best price $4.992018-12-20 — best price $1.992019-01-03 — best price $4.992020-03-04 — best price $4.492020-03-17 — best price $4.992020-04-27 — best price $3.662020-05-11 — best price $4.992020-05-12 — best price $3.662020-05-25 — best price $4.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

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Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsmacOSSingle-playerMulti-playerPvPOnline PvPCo-opOnline Co-opCross-Platform MultiplayerSteam AchievementsPartial Controller SupportSteam Cloud7 DLC

8 supported languages: English, German, Korean, Portuguese - Portugal, Spanish - Spain, French, Italian, Russian

Player tags

Co-opIndieActionCasualShooterTop-DownMultiplayer

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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