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Proto Raider

Puzzle Lab · 2015-08-28

Steam

ActionIndie

Modes: Single player

Releases: Aug 28, 2015 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Proto Raider is a single screen auto-running puzzle platformer covered in ASCII beauty. Immerse yourself in this colorful and imaginative world. Ride waterfalls, fly into tornadoes, solve puzzles, and fight monsters to complete quests and collect your treasure!

Proto Raider is a $11.99 Action and Indie game released in 2015, with a Mostly Positive sentiment (77% of 110 reviews) and an owner estimate of 20,000 .. 50,000.

0
playing now
77%
positive of 110 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
70/100
IGDB user rating (0 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$11.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 08:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 8 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity up 14% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 37% of 27,675 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-01

Estimated sales: 2.8k–6.6k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 110 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.12 at IndieGala Store (2016-11-09) · bundled 5×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $11.99 · on sale 3 of 6 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
151520152026Week of 2015-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2015-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-03-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2016-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2016-05-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2016-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2016-06-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2016-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2016-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2016-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2017-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 2 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

102026-09-15 09:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 17:00 — 0 players2026-09-18 00:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 08:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 16:00 — 0 players2026-09-21 23:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 07:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 14:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 22:00 — 0 players2026-09-27 05:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 13:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 20:00 — 0 players2026-10-01 04:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 11:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 19:00 — 0 players2026-10-05 03:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 11:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 18:00 — 0 players2026-10-09 02:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 09:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 17:00 — 0 players2026-10-13 00:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 08:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$12.07$0.122015-03-192026-07-092015-03-19 — best price $4.292015-05-23 — best price $4.392015-08-24 — best price $4.662015-10-19 — best price $2.722015-10-23 — best price $3.992015-11-25 — best price $1.992015-12-03 — best price $1.392015-12-14 — best price $3.992016-01-22 — best price $1.992016-02-12 — best price $3.992016-03-24 — best price $1.992016-04-25 — best price $3.992016-05-16 — best price $0.592016-06-01 — best price $1.992016-06-14 — best price $3.992016-06-23 — best price $0.512016-07-05 — best price $3.992016-08-01 — best price $3.992016-08-29 — best price $3.992016-11-22 — best price $0.492016-11-30 — best price $0.992017-01-02 — best price $0.992017-03-28 — best price $3.992017-06-12 — best price $0.992017-07-06 — best price $0.992018-05-07 — best price $11.992018-07-26 — best price $4.662019-02-04 — best price $2.272019-06-26 — best price $2.272020-10-19 — best price $12.072020-12-22 — best price $6.592021-05-09 — best price $11.282022-05-01 — best price $10.672025-04-28 — best price $1.552025-07-10 — best price $11.992025-12-18 — best price $1.552026-03-26 — best price $11.992026-07-09 — best price $11.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

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8 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Portuguese - Portugal, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian

Player tags

IndieActionPlatformerPuzzle-Platformer

Census log

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

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