The Game Census
Protolife cover art

Protolife

Volcanic Giraffe · 2018-06-15

Steam

IndieStrategy

Modes: Single player

Releases: Jun 15, 2018 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Jun 15, 2018 (Mac)

Protolife is an unique tower-based strategy game which gives you a direct control over the builder robot in a struggle against the hungry proto-life organism.

0
playing now
86%
positive of 470 reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
60/100
IGDB user rating (0 ratings)
silver
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$11.99
steam price (US)

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

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 14 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity down 22% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (97 reviews).
  • · Top 37% of 18,249 Indie games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 12k–28k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 470 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $5.99 at Steam (2019-11-26)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $11.99 · on sale 5 of 10 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
757520182026Week of 2018-06-01: 75 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 22 negativeWeek of 2018-07-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-08-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-11-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-08-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-10-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-12-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

302026-08-11 21:00 — 0 players2026-08-12 13:00 — 0 players2026-08-13 05:00 — 0 players2026-08-13 21:00 — 0 players2026-08-14 12:00 — 1 players2026-08-15 04:00 — 2 players2026-08-15 20:00 — 3 players2026-08-16 12:00 — 1 players2026-08-17 04:00 — 1 players2026-08-17 20:00 — 2 players2026-08-18 12:00 — 0 players2026-08-19 03:00 — 0 players2026-08-19 19:00 — 1 players2026-08-20 11:00 — 1 players2026-08-21 03:00 — 0 players2026-08-21 18:00 — 3 players2026-08-22 10:00 — 3 players2026-08-23 02:00 — 1 players2026-08-23 18:00 — 3 players2026-08-24 10:00 — 1 players2026-08-25 02:00 — 0 players2026-08-25 17:00 — 0 players2026-08-26 08:00 — 1 players2026-08-27 00:00 — 2 players2026-08-27 16:00 — 0 players2026-08-28 08:00 — 1 players2026-08-29 00:00 — 1 players2026-08-29 16:00 — 0 players2026-08-30 08:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$11.99$5.992018-06-152026-07-092018-06-15 — best price $10.792018-10-30 — best price $10.792018-12-20 — best price $9.952019-02-01 — best price $7.502019-07-09 — best price $11.992019-12-03 — best price $11.992020-01-02 — best price $11.992020-03-30 — best price $11.992020-05-04 — best price $11.992020-07-09 — best price $11.992020-09-07 — best price $11.992021-07-08 — best price $11.992021-11-01 — best price $11.992021-12-01 — best price $11.992022-01-05 — best price $11.992022-07-07 — best price $11.992023-01-05 — best price $11.992023-03-23 — best price $11.992023-07-13 — best price $11.992023-09-04 — best price $11.992023-11-28 — best price $11.992024-01-04 — best price $11.992024-03-04 — best price $11.992024-03-21 — best price $11.992024-07-11 — best price $11.992024-08-05 — best price $11.992024-12-04 — best price $11.992025-01-02 — best price $11.992025-03-20 — best price $11.992025-07-10 — best price $11.992025-10-06 — best price $11.992026-01-05 — best price $11.992026-03-16 — best price $11.992026-03-26 — best price $11.992026-07-09 — best price $11.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

29
achievements tracked
78.7%
earned "Don't step on it"
15.2%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam Trading CardsSteam WorkshopIncludes level editorFamily Sharing1 DLC

2 supported languages: English, Russian

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)7003%29

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

Player tags

RTSDarkIndieRetroAliensSci-fiStrategyTop-DownAtmosphericSingleplayer

Census log

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

Recent updates

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