The Game Census
Messiah cover art

Messiah

Shiny Entertainment · interplay · 2017-01-16

SteamGOG

ActionAdventureStrategy

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Third person

Releases: Sep 15, 2000 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Bob is an angel ordered by God himself to go and clean up the putrid world of the future. He has been given the power of possession so that he can sneak up on any person, animal or genetically engineered being and leap right into their souls! The rules are up to you - enjoy the freedom.

Messiah is an Action, Adventure and Strategy game released in 2017, priced at $19.99, with an estimated 20,000 to 50,000 owners and a Mixed review sentiment (62% of 56 reviews).

0
playing now
63%
positive of 56 reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
76/100
IGDB user rating (14 ratings)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$19.99
steam price (US)

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

Messiah is a 2000 action-adventure video game developed by Shiny Entertainment and published by Interplay Entertainment for Microsoft Windows. The game was promoted for its tessellation technology, which was claimed to drastically increase or reduce the number of polygons based on the speed of the system running the game. Messiah received a mixed response from reviewers.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 9 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity up 0% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 49% of 27,682 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-02

Estimated sales: 1.4k–3.4k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 56 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

GOG$19.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $2.99 at GOG (2012-04-13)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $19.99 · on sale 27 of 71 observed days · $17.00 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
3320172026Week of 2017-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 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 08:00 — 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 — 1 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 18:00 — 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

$19.99$3.392015-01-012026-10-142015-01-01 — best price $9.992015-11-14 — best price $9.992016-06-11 — best price $3.992016-12-05 — best price $3.992017-06-22 — best price $10.492017-11-02 — best price $4.992017-12-27 — best price $9.992018-03-20 — best price $9.992018-06-19 — best price $9.992018-10-16 — best price $9.992018-12-10 — best price $7.492019-02-12 — best price $9.992019-07-01 — best price $4.992019-11-26 — best price $7.492020-01-23 — best price $10.492020-06-25 — best price $5.092020-12-16 — best price $3.992021-06-28 — best price $9.992022-06-23 — best price $11.992022-11-29 — best price $14.992023-04-28 — best price $10.492023-09-22 — best price $10.492024-01-05 — best price $10.492024-05-21 — best price $11.992024-09-17 — best price $11.992024-12-19 — best price $11.992025-04-03 — best price $14.992025-08-26 — best price $11.992025-11-02 — best price $19.992026-01-15 — best price $15.992026-06-25 — best price $15.992026-08-31 — best price $19.992026-09-08 — best price $19.992026-09-16 — best price $19.992026-09-24 — best price $15.992026-10-02 — best price $15.992026-10-10 — best price $19.992026-10-14 — best price $19.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

163782026-06-02 — 100 pageviews2026-06-06 — 112 pageviews2026-06-10 — 100 pageviews2026-06-14 — 100 pageviews2026-06-18 — 135 pageviews2026-06-22 — 85 pageviews2026-06-26 — 88 pageviews2026-06-30 — 93 pageviews2026-07-04 — 102 pageviews2026-07-08 — 120 pageviews2026-07-12 — 103 pageviews2026-07-16 — 89 pageviews2026-07-20 — 107 pageviews2026-07-24 — 98 pageviews2026-07-28 — 127 pageviews2026-08-01 — 93 pageviews2026-08-05 — 148 pageviews2026-08-09 — 139 pageviews2026-08-13 — 130 pageviews2026-08-17 — 121 pageviews2026-08-21 — 119 pageviews2026-08-25 — 102 pageviews2026-08-29 — 123 pageviews2026-09-02 — 130 pageviews2026-09-06 — 148 pageviews2026-09-10 — 109 pageviews2026-09-14 — 83 pageviews2026-09-18 — 110 pageviews2026-09-22 — 127 pageviews2026-09-26 — 115 pageviews2026-09-30 — 114 pageviews2026-10-04 — 126 pageviews2026-10-08 — 104 pageviews2026-10-12 — 97 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerFamily Sharing

Player tags

FunnyMemesActionSci-fiShooterStealthViolentStrategyAdventureCyberpunk

Census log

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

Players also track

Star Control®: OriginsImmortal: UnchainedTanziaOmensight: Definitive EditionPLANET ALPHACitadel: Forged with FireRebel Galaxy OutlawWolfenstein: Youngblood

Similarity via IGDB.

Official site ↗Wikipedia ↗