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SHAFTED

Looch Labs · 2022-10-13

SteamEpic Games Store

SimulationStrategyFree To Play

Modes: Single player

Releases: Oct 13, 2022 (Linux), Oct 13, 2022 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

SHAFTED is a QUICK resource management game. Build your mini mining colony. Optimize your mineral outputs. Strategically position your buildings with turn based tactics. Pay off your contracts or else you'll get SHAFTED.

0
playing now
93%
positive of 15 reviews
Positive
steam rating
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
Free
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 06:00 UTC (census sample)

SHAFTED is a micro-mining simulator with an emphasis on letting you quickly build out your colony. Single rounds are fast and short. The alien clients swoop in to extract contract payments. Clear out those clients and call it a day.(Storyline via IGDB)

Health check

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  • · Top 95% of 6,714 Simulation games in the census by review count.

All-time low: $0.79 at Steam (2024-11-27)via IsThereAnyDeal

Players online

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Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$4.99$0.002022-10-132025-03-252022-10-13 — best price $3.992022-10-20 — best price $4.992022-11-22 — best price $3.992022-11-29 — best price $4.992022-12-22 — best price $3.742023-01-05 — best price $4.992023-03-16 — best price $2.492023-03-23 — best price $4.992023-06-29 — best price $1.992023-07-13 — best price $4.992023-10-09 — best price $3.492023-10-16 — best price $4.992023-11-21 — best price $3.492023-11-28 — best price $4.992023-12-21 — best price $3.492024-01-04 — best price $4.992024-03-14 — best price $2.492024-03-21 — best price $4.992024-05-13 — best price $2.492024-05-20 — best price $4.992024-06-27 — best price $2.492024-07-11 — best price $4.992024-11-27 — best price $0.792024-12-04 — best price $4.992024-12-20 — best price $0.792025-01-02 — best price $4.992025-03-13 — best price $0.792025-03-20 — best price $4.992025-03-25 — best price $0.00
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsLinuxSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam CloudFamily Sharing

Player tags

LogicPuzzleSci-fiEconomyBuildingStrategyTacticalTop-DownIsometricTurn-Based Combat

Census log

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

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