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Planets Under Attack

Targem Games · Topware Interactive · 2012-09-27

SteamXbox

IndieStrategy

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative

Releases: Aug 04, 2012 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Aug 04, 2012 (Mac), Nov 14, 2012 (Xbox 360), Nov 13, 2012 (PlayStation 3)

Play as humans or robots in a brand new sci-fi strategy adventure! Travel into the far reaches of space, through cleverly designed star constellations and variable game modes, conquering enemy planets using 15 combinable technologies.

Planets Under Attack is an Indie and Strategy game released in 2012, priced at $11.99, with an estimated owner base of 500,000 .. 1,000,000 and a Mostly Positive review sentiment (73% of 1239 reviews).

6
playing now
73%
positive of 1.2k reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
500,000–1,000,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
80/100
critic score (1 outlets, IGDB)
50/100
IGDB user rating (4 ratings)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$11.99
steam price (US)

6 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 12:00 UTC (census sample)

Planets Under Attack is a strategy video game inspired by Galcon and developed by Targem Games.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 6 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 7 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity up 250% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 9% of 49,562 Indie games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-31

Estimated sales: 50k–99k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 1,241 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.85 at Savemi (2019-10-26) · bundled 9×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $11.99 · on sale 62 of 68 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
2220182026Week of 2018-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

1902026-09-15 13:00 — 1 players2026-09-16 21:00 — 1 players2026-09-18 05:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 12:00 — 1 players2026-09-20 20:00 — 1 players2026-09-22 03:00 — 1 players2026-09-23 11:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 18:00 — 1 players2026-09-26 02:00 — 1 players2026-09-27 09:00 — 1 players2026-09-28 17:00 — 1 players2026-09-30 00:00 — 0 players2026-10-01 08:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 15:00 — 1 players2026-10-03 23:00 — 1 players2026-10-05 07:00 — 13 players2026-10-06 15:00 — 12 players2026-10-07 22:00 — 7 players2026-10-09 06:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 13:00 — 1 players2026-10-11 21:00 — 9 players2026-10-13 04:00 — 2 players2026-10-14 12:00 — 6 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
2010Aug 2012Jul 2026Aug 2012 — avg 0 · peak 3Dec 2012 — avg 4 · peak 19Apr 2013 — avg 1 · peak 9Aug 2013 — avg 2 · peak 11Dec 2013 — avg 3 · peak 12Apr 2014 — avg 9 · peak 58Aug 2014 — avg 3 · peak 11Dec 2014 — avg 4 · peak 15Apr 2015 — avg 6 · peak 32Aug 2015 — avg 6 · peak 35Dec 2015 — avg 2 · peak 9Apr 2016 — avg 4 · peak 26Aug 2016 — avg 3 · peak 14Dec 2016 — avg 3 · peak 11Apr 2017 — avg 2 · peak 10Aug 2017 — avg 1 · peak 6Dec 2017 — avg 85 · peak 492Apr 2018 — avg 85 · peak 8,186Aug 2018 — avg 48 · peak 651Dec 2018 — avg 42 · peak 960Apr 2019 — avg 55 · peak 977Aug 2019 — avg 17 · peak 471Dec 2019 — avg 51 · peak 1,675Apr 2020 — avg 61 · peak 2,041Aug 2020 — avg 56 · peak 4,355Dec 2020 — avg 54 · peak 487Apr 2021 — avg 53 · peak 1,401Aug 2021 — avg 83 · peak 3,826Dec 2021 — avg 16 · peak 356Apr 2022 — avg 2 · peak 7Aug 2022 — avg 1 · peak 6Dec 2022 — avg 18 · peak 966Apr 2023 — avg 2 · peak 6Oct 2023 — avg 1 · peak 7Sep 2024 — avg 2 · peak 6May 2025 — avg 40 · peak 1,408Sep 2025 — avg 2 · peak 5Jan 2026 — avg 53 · peak 1,438May 2026 — avg 5 · peak 50Jul 2026 — avg 8 · peak 738

▼ −10 avg players (−54.2%) vs prior month — Jul 2026

Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$14.99$0.862015-01-012026-08-252015-01-01 — best price $2.492015-06-17 — best price $11.842016-03-30 — best price $9.992016-12-05 — best price $1.492017-07-28 — best price $8.902018-01-18 — best price $9.992018-05-24 — best price $9.992018-11-19 — best price $1.992019-03-24 — best price $0.862019-09-02 — best price $9.992020-01-02 — best price $9.992020-05-25 — best price $9.992020-06-29 — best price $9.992020-08-08 — best price $8.892020-09-18 — best price $0.992020-11-05 — best price $8.892020-12-13 — best price $8.382021-01-26 — best price $9.992021-03-04 — best price $9.992021-04-10 — best price $8.382021-05-30 — best price $8.382021-09-21 — best price $9.992021-12-02 — best price $9.992022-02-03 — best price $7.342022-05-16 — best price $9.992022-07-19 — best price $7.342022-10-26 — best price $0.992023-01-20 — best price $1.992023-06-28 — best price $1.042023-10-16 — best price $9.992024-04-14 — best price $8.262024-07-26 — best price $8.262025-01-20 — best price $9.992025-09-17 — best price $9.692026-03-30 — best price $2.992026-06-13 — best price $8.262026-08-25 — best price $1.95
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

1202026-05-30 — 1 pageviews2026-06-03 — 2 pageviews2026-06-07 — 7 pageviews2026-06-11 — 2 pageviews2026-06-15 — 5 pageviews2026-06-19 — 1 pageviews2026-06-23 — 4 pageviews2026-06-27 — 5 pageviews2026-07-01 — 1 pageviews2026-07-05 — 12 pageviews2026-07-09 — 4 pageviews2026-07-13 — 5 pageviews2026-07-17 — 5 pageviews2026-07-21 — 6 pageviews2026-07-25 — 4 pageviews2026-07-29 — 5 pageviews2026-08-02 — 4 pageviews2026-08-06 — 1 pageviews2026-08-10 — 2 pageviews2026-08-14 — 5 pageviews2026-08-18 — 2 pageviews2026-08-22 — 3 pageviews2026-08-26 — 1 pageviews2026-08-30 — 6 pageviews2026-09-03 — 2 pageviews2026-09-07 — 6 pageviews2026-09-11 — 4 pageviews2026-09-15 — 8 pageviews2026-09-19 — 4 pageviews2026-09-23 — 4 pageviews2026-09-27 — 8 pageviews2026-10-01 — 3 pageviews2026-10-05 — 5 pageviews2026-10-09 — 3 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

21
achievements tracked
11.2%
earned "Don't panic!"
6.8%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSFull controller supportSingle-playerMulti-playerPvPOnline PvPCross-Platform MultiplayerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam Trading CardsSteam CloudRemote Play on TV2 DLC

7 supported languages: English, German, French, Italian, Spanish - Spain, Russian, Polish

Post-launch support: 2 DLC released, first 2024-07-29 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)3,9268%21
PS3 (PlayStation)3705%21
Xbox 360 (Xbox)2472%21

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

Player tags

RTSIndieSpaceSci-fiStrategyMultiplayerSingleplayer

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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