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Mission Critical

Legend Entertainment · Ziggurat · 2019-01-28

SteamGOG

AdventureStrategy

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: First person

Releases: Oct 31, 1995 (DOS), Jan 28, 2019 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

THE ULTIMATE GAME OF SURVIVAL... The hull of your crippled vessel has ruptured, air is leaking into space, and weapons systems are down. Your mission could have ended fifteen years of interstellar war, but now - as the only remaining crewman - your first order of business is to stay alive...

Mission Critical is an Adventure and Strategy game released in 2019, priced at $6.99, with a Positive review sentiment (94% of 36 reviews).

94%
positive of 36 reviews
Positive
steam's rating (official)
86/100
critic score (1 outlets, IGDB)
70/100
IGDB user rating (5 ratings)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$6.99
steam price (US)
Mission Critical is a sci-fi adventure game, created by Legend Entertainment for MS-DOS, written by the company's CEO Mike Verdu, and released in November 1995. The game consists of 3D graphics and features live-action scenes, with the cast including Michael Dorn and Patricia Charbonneau. The games storyline focuses on the player taking on the role of a single crew member, who is left behind on their ship after their captain feigns a surrender to ensure a vital mission can continue. The player's goal focuses on repairing their ship after a recent battle, and then getting to the surface of a planet to complete a secret scientific mission that could provide the means to ending a war over technological advancements and artificial life.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 11 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity up 38% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 62% of 28,748 Adventure games in the census by review count.

Current store prices

GOG$1.39-80%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

12-month high $6.99 · on sale 24 of 30 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

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3320192026Week of 2019-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-09-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$6.99$1.392026-09-152026-10-142026-09-15 — best price $6.992026-09-16 — best price $1.392026-09-17 — best price $1.392026-09-18 — best price $1.392026-09-19 — best price $1.392026-09-20 — best price $1.392026-09-21 — best price $1.392026-09-22 — best price $1.392026-09-23 — best price $1.392026-09-24 — best price $1.392026-09-25 — best price $1.392026-09-26 — best price $1.392026-09-27 — best price $1.392026-09-28 — best price $1.392026-09-29 — best price $1.392026-09-30 — best price $1.392026-10-01 — best price $1.392026-10-02 — best price $1.392026-10-03 — best price $1.392026-10-04 — best price $1.392026-10-05 — best price $1.392026-10-06 — best price $1.392026-10-07 — best price $6.992026-10-08 — best price $6.992026-10-09 — best price $6.992026-10-10 — best price $6.992026-10-11 — best price $6.992026-10-12 — best price $1.392026-10-13 — best price $1.392026-10-14 — best price $1.39
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Attention

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Details

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