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Moose Life cover art

Moose Life

Llamasoft Ltd. · 2020-08-13

SteamPlayStation Store

ActionIndie

Modes: Single player

Releases: Aug 13, 2020 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Feb 16, 2021 (PlayStation 4)

Moose Life is a trippy, psychedelic trance shooter. Created in the style of a 1980s arcade game, Moose Life offers you an exhilarating ride into the trance zone. Spectacular shooty action and a top techno soundtrack will raise your mood. If you have VR, immerse yourself for greater satisfaction.

98%
positive of 102 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
78/100
critic score (1 outlets, IGDB)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$6.99
steam price (US)
Moose Life is a forward-scrolling shoot 'em up for Windows developed by Llamasoft. Similar to earlier Llamasoft games like Tempest 2000 and Polybius, Moose Life combines influences of early 1980s arcade video games with psychedelic visuals and electronic music to create a trance-like effect. It supports virtual reality using Steam VR and PSVR.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 7 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity up 0% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (37 reviews).
  • · Top 44% of 22,385 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 2.0k–4.6k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 102 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $2.09 at Steam (2021-10-28) · bundled 1×via IsThereAnyDeal

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
373720202026Week of 2020-08-01: 37 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$6.99$2.092020-08-132022-01-052020-08-13 — best price $6.992021-05-26 — best price $6.992021-10-28 — best price $2.092021-11-01 — best price $6.992021-11-24 — best price $2.092021-12-01 — best price $6.992021-12-23 — best price $2.092022-01-05 — best price $6.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

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

Completion

11
achievements tracked
10.6%
earned "Super herd"
1.9%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsVR SupportedPartial Controller SupportSteam LeaderboardsFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Player tags

VRIndieActionArcadeAbstractColorfulRelaxingPsychedelicScore AttackShoot 'Em Up

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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