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Particle Fleet: Emergence

Knuckle Cracker · 2016-09-29

Steam

IndieSimulationStrategy

Modes: Single player

Releases: Sep 29, 2016 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Sep 29, 2016 (Mac), Sep 29, 2016 (Linux)

Build and design your own fleets and stand opposed to the Particulate in this physics/strategy/RTS/fleet hybrid. Build partially destructible and self repairing ships that interact with enemies less controlled by some scripted logic and more driven by a real time massive physics particle simulation.

23
playing now
92%
positive of 1.3k reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
80/100
IGDB user rating (2 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$14.99
steam price (US)

23 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 07:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 22% of 17,990 Indie games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 32k–77k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 1,282 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $1.49 at Steam (2020-12-22)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $14.99 · on sale 4 of 8 observed days (census price snapshots)

Players online

53192026-08-11 20:00 — 34 players2026-08-12 12:00 — 31 players2026-08-13 04:00 — 25 players2026-08-13 20:00 — 37 players2026-08-14 12:00 — 20 players2026-08-15 04:00 — 22 players2026-08-15 19:00 — 51 players2026-08-16 11:00 — 31 players2026-08-17 03:00 — 28 players2026-08-17 19:00 — 42 players2026-08-18 11:00 — 31 players2026-08-19 03:00 — 26 players2026-08-19 18:00 — 31 players2026-08-20 10:00 — 19 players2026-08-21 02:00 — 25 players2026-08-21 18:00 — 35 players2026-08-22 09:00 — 27 players2026-08-23 01:00 — 43 players2026-08-23 17:00 — 44 players2026-08-24 09:00 — 26 players2026-08-25 01:00 — 30 players2026-08-25 16:00 — 28 players2026-08-26 09:00 — 29 players2026-08-27 01:00 — 29 players2026-08-27 17:00 — 42 players2026-08-28 09:00 — 32 players2026-08-29 02:00 — 28 players2026-08-29 18:00 — 53 players2026-08-30 07:00 — 23 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$14.99$1.492016-09-302026-07-092016-09-30 — best price $14.992017-01-12 — best price $13.492017-07-05 — best price $14.992017-11-22 — best price $7.492018-02-15 — best price $11.992018-05-10 — best price $7.492018-10-15 — best price $9.892018-11-26 — best price $14.992019-01-24 — best price $14.992019-04-15 — best price $4.952019-07-08 — best price $4.952019-09-12 — best price $14.992019-11-26 — best price $2.992020-01-09 — best price $3.592020-05-07 — best price $7.492020-09-03 — best price $3.712020-11-28 — best price $4.942021-01-11 — best price $3.712021-03-15 — best price $3.712021-05-31 — best price $3.712021-08-19 — best price $3.702021-10-18 — best price $14.992021-11-24 — best price $4.942021-12-23 — best price $4.942022-02-03 — best price $14.992022-05-23 — best price $3.702022-08-01 — best price $4.942022-11-29 — best price $14.992023-01-06 — best price $14.992023-07-13 — best price $14.992024-01-04 — best price $14.992024-12-04 — best price $14.992025-03-20 — best price $14.992026-01-05 — best price $14.992026-07-09 — best price $14.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

20
achievements tracked
93.5%
earned "Naivety"
58.4%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam CloudStatsIncludes level editorRemote Play TogetherFamily Sharing1 DLC

1 supported languages: English

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)3,07644%20

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

2DRTSIndieSpaceSci-fiStrategySimulationLevel EditorSingleplayerTower Defense

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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