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Major Stryker cover art

Major Stryker

Apogee Entertainment · 2014-05-05

Steam

Action

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Side view

Releases: Jan 15, 1993 (DOS), May 05, 2014 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), May 05, 2014 (Mac)

In the not-so-distant future, the calamity of World War III led to eventual world peace. But, it didn't last. Earth was invaded by alien marauders - the Kretons. Earth's united military force, still depleted after the mighty onslaught of WWIII, was not nearly sufficient to repel the numerous Kreton attacks.

Major Stryker is a $2.99 Action game released in 2014, with an owner estimate of 20,000 .. 50,000 and a Mostly Positive review sentiment (78% of 60 reviews).

0
playing now
78%
positive of 60 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
60/100
IGDB user rating (2 ratings)
silver
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$2.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 09:00 UTC (census sample)

Major Stryker is a 2D vertically scrolling shooter video game written for DOS by Apogee Software. Its working title was "Strike Force" and was released in January 1993. It consists of three episodes, with the first episode distributed as shareware, and the rest available commercially. The three episodes are set on a Lava Planet, an Arctic Planet and a Desert Planet. The game was re-released as freeware on March 14, 2006, and on Steam with support for Microsoft Windows and macOS in 2014.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 4 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 50% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 48% of 27,667 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-02

Estimated sales: 1.5k–3.6k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 60 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.50 at Fanatical (2023-05-08) · bundled 2×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $2.99 · on sale 5 of 10 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
2220152026Week of 2015-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

102026-09-15 09:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 18:00 — 0 players2026-09-18 01:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 09:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 16:00 — 0 players2026-09-22 00:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 07:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 15:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 23:00 — 0 players2026-09-27 06:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 14:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 21:00 — 0 players2026-10-01 05:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 12:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 20:00 — 0 players2026-10-05 04:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 11:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 19:00 — 0 players2026-10-09 02:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 10:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 17:00 — 0 players2026-10-13 01:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 09:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$39.99$0.002015-05-052026-07-092015-05-05 — best price $29.992015-05-12 — best price $39.992015-08-06 — best price $23.992015-11-02 — best price $39.992015-12-22 — best price $9.992016-09-05 — best price $2.992018-06-21 — best price $1.492020-07-09 — best price $2.992021-06-24 — best price $0.742021-12-01 — best price $2.992022-04-29 — best price $2.992022-06-20 — best price $1.192022-11-01 — best price $0.592022-11-29 — best price $2.992023-01-16 — best price $0.592023-03-16 — best price $0.592023-04-03 — best price $0.592023-05-24 — best price $2.992023-07-10 — best price $0.592023-08-21 — best price $0.592023-10-03 — best price $2.992023-11-20 — best price $0.592023-12-01 — best price $2.992024-01-04 — best price $2.992024-02-19 — best price $2.992024-03-21 — best price $2.992024-04-22 — best price $2.992024-11-27 — best price $0.892025-01-02 — best price $2.992025-03-20 — best price $2.992025-11-25 — best price $0.832026-01-05 — best price $2.992026-05-15 — best price $0.832026-07-09 — best price $2.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

2722026-05-29 — 7 pageviews2026-06-02 — 8 pageviews2026-06-06 — 6 pageviews2026-06-10 — 9 pageviews2026-06-14 — 6 pageviews2026-06-18 — 7 pageviews2026-06-22 — 27 pageviews2026-06-26 — 11 pageviews2026-06-30 — 13 pageviews2026-07-04 — 4 pageviews2026-07-08 — 10 pageviews2026-07-12 — 10 pageviews2026-07-16 — 5 pageviews2026-07-20 — 10 pageviews2026-07-24 — 9 pageviews2026-07-28 — 8 pageviews2026-08-01 — 5 pageviews2026-08-05 — 11 pageviews2026-08-09 — 7 pageviews2026-08-13 — 15 pageviews2026-08-17 — 9 pageviews2026-08-21 — 3 pageviews2026-08-25 — 10 pageviews2026-08-29 — 5 pageviews2026-09-02 — 6 pageviews2026-09-06 — 14 pageviews2026-09-10 — 4 pageviews2026-09-14 — 4 pageviews2026-09-18 — 8 pageviews2026-09-22 — 13 pageviews2026-09-26 — 4 pageviews2026-09-30 — 8 pageviews2026-10-04 — 13 pageviews2026-10-08 — 9 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsmacOSSingle-playerPartial Controller SupportFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Player tags

2DRetro1990'sActionArcadeClassicShoot 'Em Up

Census log

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

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