The Game Census
Space Ace cover art

Space Ace

Digital Leisure Inc. · 2013-08-27

Steam

ActionAdventureCasual

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Third person

Releases: 1995 (3DO Interactive Multiplayer), 1989 (Amiga), 1989 (DOS), 1990 (Mac), Oct 1983 (Arcade), 1995 (Atari Jaguar CD)

In Space Ace you play the heroic Ace who must stop the evil Commander Borf from taking over the Earth! Borf plans to reduce all of humankind to infants and take over the planet.

80%
positive of 171 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
70/100
IGDB user rating (24 ratings)
1h
time to beat (IGDB)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$9.99
steam price (US)
Space Ace is a LaserDisc video game produced by Bluth Group, Cinematronics and Advanced Microcomputer Systems. It was unveiled in October 1983, just four months after the Dragon's Lair game, followed by a limited release in December 1983 and a wide release on April 29, 1984. Like its predecessor, it uses film-quality animation played back from a LaserDisc.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 11 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 8% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 39% of 20,409 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 6.8k–14k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 171 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $2.49 at Steam (2014-10-30)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $9.99 · on sale 4 of 8 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
4420132026Week of 2013-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2013-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2013-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2014-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2014-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2014-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2014-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2014-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2014-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2014-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2014-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2014-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2014-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2014-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2015-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2015-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2017-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$9.99$4.972015-01-012026-07-092015-01-01 — best price $4.992015-06-22 — best price $9.992015-12-22 — best price $4.992016-02-12 — best price $9.992016-11-23 — best price $4.992017-01-02 — best price $9.992017-11-22 — best price $7.492018-01-04 — best price $9.992018-11-19 — best price $4.972018-11-27 — best price $9.992018-12-20 — best price $4.992019-02-11 — best price $9.992019-06-25 — best price $4.992019-07-19 — best price $9.952019-11-26 — best price $4.992020-01-02 — best price $9.992020-06-25 — best price $4.992020-12-01 — best price $9.992021-02-11 — best price $4.992021-07-08 — best price $9.992021-11-24 — best price $4.992022-01-05 — best price $9.992022-09-07 — best price $4.992022-11-29 — best price $9.992023-03-16 — best price $4.992023-07-13 — best price $9.992023-12-22 — best price $4.992024-03-21 — best price $9.992024-11-27 — best price $4.992025-01-02 — best price $9.992025-06-26 — best price $4.992025-10-06 — best price $9.992026-03-19 — best price $4.992026-07-09 — best price $9.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

13
achievements tracked
76.2%
earned "Regain Your Manhood"
9.4%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsLinuxSingle-playerSteam AchievementsPartial Controller SupportFamily Sharing

4 supported languages: English, German, French, Italian

Player tags

FMVRetroSpaceActionArcadeCasualCartoonClassicAdventureQuick-Time Events

Census log

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

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