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Operation: Matriarchy cover art

Operation: Matriarchy

Madia Entertainment · ESDigital Games · 2016-01-29

Steam

Action

Modes: Single player

Releases: 2005 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Operation: Matriarchy is a science fiction first-person shooter. In the 24th century mankind has formed itself into the Federation of Earth, and has colonized several other planets. However, around 2350 a mysterious virus ravages the colony planet of Velia, targeting only the females within the population.

0
playing now
65%
positive of 134 reviews
Mixed
steam rating
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
54/100
IGDB user rating (5 ratings)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$5.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 13:00 UTC (census sample)

Operation: Matriarchy, known in Russia as Velian (Велиан), is a 2005 science fiction first-person shooter game developed by Russian studio MADia Entertainment and published by Buka Entertainment for Microsoft Windows. The game is a spin-off from MADia's simulation franchise Echelon.

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  • · Top 65% of 10,936 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 3.4k–8.0k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 134 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.59 at Steam (2017-06-22)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $5.99 · on sale 29 of 54 observed days (census price snapshots)

Players online

102026-08-12 01:00 — 0 players2026-08-12 17:00 — 0 players2026-08-13 08:00 — 0 players2026-08-14 00:00 — 0 players2026-08-14 16:00 — 0 players2026-08-15 08:00 — 0 players2026-08-16 00:00 — 0 players2026-08-16 16:00 — 0 players2026-08-17 08:00 — 0 players2026-08-18 00:00 — 0 players2026-08-18 15:00 — 0 players2026-08-19 07:00 — 0 players2026-08-19 23:00 — 0 players2026-08-20 15:00 — 1 players2026-08-21 06:00 — 0 players2026-08-21 22:00 — 0 players2026-08-22 14:00 — 0 players2026-08-23 06:00 — 0 players2026-08-23 21:00 — 0 players2026-08-24 13:00 — 0 players2026-08-25 05:00 — 0 players2026-08-25 21:00 — 0 players2026-08-26 13:00 — 0 players2026-08-27 06:00 — 0 players2026-08-27 22:00 — 0 players2026-08-28 14:00 — 0 players2026-08-29 06:00 — 0 players2026-08-29 21:00 — 1 players2026-08-30 13:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$15.42$0.592015-04-132026-08-152015-04-13 — best price $9.992016-04-11 — best price $5.992016-08-08 — best price $2.992016-12-22 — best price $2.992017-09-04 — best price $1.492017-12-21 — best price $0.592018-06-21 — best price $0.592018-12-21 — best price $0.592019-06-26 — best price $0.592019-12-19 — best price $0.592020-09-14 — best price $0.892021-02-11 — best price $0.592021-09-29 — best price $0.592022-01-27 — best price $0.592022-09-12 — best price $0.592023-03-16 — best price $0.592023-09-25 — best price $0.892023-11-29 — best price $5.992024-02-07 — best price $0.892024-03-28 — best price $0.822024-04-15 — best price $1.492024-05-09 — best price $4.952024-06-08 — best price $5.992024-07-13 — best price $5.682024-08-07 — best price $5.262024-09-15 — best price $5.262025-01-06 — best price $1.492025-04-24 — best price $5.992025-06-30 — best price $1.302025-07-28 — best price $5.992026-01-05 — best price $5.992026-03-14 — best price $4.952026-04-17 — best price $4.952026-05-20 — best price $5.932026-07-14 — best price $4.942026-08-03 — best price $5.992026-08-15 — best price $5.30
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

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

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam Trading CardsFamily Sharing

3 supported languages: English, Bulgarian, Polish

Player tags

FPSActionSci-fiShooterFirst-Person

Census log

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

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