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MDK cover art

MDK

Shiny Entertainment · 2009-09-17

SteamGOG

Action

Modes: Single player

Releases: Aug 05, 1999 (PlayStation), Sep 17, 2009 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), May 07, 1997 (DOS), Jun 18, 1997 (Mac)

ON A GOOD DAY, ONLY 2.5 MILLION PEOPLE WILL DIE. As vast alien mining cities suck the power and minerals from every major metropolis on Earth simultaneously, time is of the essence as millions of civilians are expiring by the second.

1
playing now
79%
positive of 363 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam rating
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
77/100
IGDB user rating (110 ratings)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$19.99
steam price (US)

1 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 12:00 UTC (census sample)

MDK is a 1997 third-person shooter video game developed by Shiny Entertainment for Windows and subsequently ported to Mac OS by Shokwave, and to the PlayStation by Neversoft. The game was published on all systems by Playmates Interactive Entertainment (PIE) in North America, while Shiny handled the European release.

Health check

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  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 50% of 10,936 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 15k–29k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 363 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

GOG$19.99
lowest across shops (ITAD)$19.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $2.39 at GOG (2013-12-12) · bundled 2×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $19.99 · on sale 19 of 30 observed days · $17.60 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Players online

202026-08-15 07:00 — 0 players2026-08-15 23:00 — 0 players2026-08-16 15:00 — 1 players2026-08-17 07:00 — 1 players2026-08-17 23:00 — 0 players2026-08-18 14:00 — 2 players2026-08-19 06:00 — 0 players2026-08-19 22:00 — 0 players2026-08-20 14:00 — 0 players2026-08-21 05:00 — 0 players2026-08-21 21:00 — 2 players2026-08-22 13:00 — 0 players2026-08-23 05:00 — 1 players2026-08-23 20:00 — 0 players2026-08-24 12:00 — 0 players2026-08-25 04:00 — 0 players2026-08-25 20:00 — 0 players2026-08-26 12:00 — 0 players2026-08-27 05:00 — 0 players2026-08-27 21:00 — 0 players2026-08-28 13:00 — 1 players2026-08-29 06:00 — 0 players2026-08-29 20:00 — 0 players2026-08-30 12:00 — 1 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$19.99$2.392015-01-012026-08-302015-01-01 — best price $5.992015-04-28 — best price $9.992015-06-22 — best price $14.992015-11-14 — best price $5.992016-02-12 — best price $9.992016-05-29 — best price $5.992016-07-15 — best price $2.392016-12-22 — best price $4.992017-11-07 — best price $9.992018-02-19 — best price $9.992018-05-17 — best price $3.392018-09-03 — best price $3.392018-11-20 — best price $9.992019-01-07 — best price $6.992019-05-13 — best price $6.992019-07-15 — best price $6.992019-11-12 — best price $9.992020-01-02 — best price $9.992020-03-30 — best price $9.992020-10-12 — best price $9.992021-02-15 — best price $9.992021-08-19 — best price $9.992022-07-07 — best price $9.992022-11-22 — best price $7.992023-01-06 — best price $7.992023-07-17 — best price $7.992023-11-22 — best price $9.992024-03-14 — best price $7.992024-06-27 — best price $7.992024-10-25 — best price $9.992025-02-13 — best price $7.992025-06-18 — best price $7.992025-09-11 — best price $9.992025-10-28 — best price $7.992026-01-05 — best price $19.992026-06-25 — best price $15.992026-08-30 — best price $19.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerFamily Sharing

6 supported languages: English, French, German, Italian, Polish, Spanish - Spain

Player tags

1990'sActionComedySci-fiClassicShooterSingleplayerThird PersonGreat SoundtrackThird-Person Shooter

Census log

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

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