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Shatterline

Frag Lab LLC · 2025-07-03

SteamPlayStation StoreEpic Games Store

Action

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative · Perspectives: First person

Releases: Jul 03, 2025 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Sep 26, 2025 (PlayStation 4)

Get ready for the apocalypse! Shatterline is a high-octane single-player FPS adventure where Earth’s survival hangs in the balance. Pick a unique operator and combat the alien plague!

73%
positive of 29k reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
79/100
IGDB user rating (16 ratings)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$9.99
steam price (US)

The year is 2028. The Earth is being slowly overtaken by the Crystalline – a gigantic interstellar super-organism that devours planets and transforms living species in its own image. This enemy cannot be bargained with, or fought with conventional means. While humanity fears the cosmic plague, there are some who see it as a blessing. The Strafe Witnesses – an army of fanatics, – aim to subdue the Crystalline, and use it to uplift themselves to the next stage of evolution. Between hope and the end of the world stands Shellguard – a small company of individuals immune to the Crystalline. These(Storyline via IGDB)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 15 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity up 67% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 5% of 13,327 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 581k1.3M copies

Review-multiple estimate from 29,053 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.24 at Epic Game Store (2025-01-08)via IsThereAnyDeal

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
3320222026Week of 2025-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Completion

31
achievements tracked
62.8%
earned "Welcome Aboard"
0.2%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsDualShock Controller SupportDualShock Controller SupportDualSense Controller SupportDualSense Controller SupportSteam Input API SupportPartial Controller SupportFamily Sharing1 DLC

4 supported languages: English, Ukrainian, Japanese, Portuguese - Portugal

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2025-09-26 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)19,2150%31
PS4 (PlayStation)7625%32

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

Where its players are

Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.

Census log

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

Players also track

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Similarity via IGDB.

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