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Space Probes

Website Modern · 2020-08-15

Steam

Indie

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Side view

Releases: Aug 15, 2020 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Space Probes is a Shoot Em Up (SHMUP) inspired by productions from the 90s released on SNES, MEGADRIVE, NEO-GEO, PC-ENGINE etc.

Space Probes is an Indie game released in 2020, free-to-play, with an estimated 0 .. 20,000 owners and a Positive review sentiment (92% of 24 reviews).— census verdict as of 2026-09-30

92%
positive of 24 reviews
Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
Free
steam price (US)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 11 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity up 10% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 71% of 45,322 Indie games in the census by review count.

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
5520202026Week of 2020-08-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportFamily Sharing

3 supported languages: English, French, Japanese

Census log

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

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