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Species: Unknown cover art

Species: Unknown

WanadevStudio · 2025-10-23

Steam

ActionIndieEarly Access

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative

Releases: Oct 23, 2025 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Species: Unknown is a 1 to 4 players co-op survival horror. Complete high-risk missions aboard an abandoned ship while being hunted by an unknown creature. Survive and upgrade your gear to face each new threat that lurks in the dark.

95%
positive of 11k reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
87/100
IGDB user rating (6 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$9.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Cooling
  • · 1,188 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~149/week).
  • · Review velocity down 46% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 11% of 10,936 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 213k–479k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 10,634 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $7.99 at Steam (2026-03-19)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $9.99 · on sale 4 of 10 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
59259220252026Week of 2025-10-23: 554 positiveWeek of 2025-10-23: 29 negativeWeek of 2025-10-30: 519 positiveWeek of 2025-10-30: 40 negativeWeek of 2025-11-06: 335 positiveWeek of 2025-11-06: 19 negativeWeek of 2025-11-13: 258 positiveWeek of 2025-11-13: 21 negativeWeek of 2025-11-20: 444 positiveWeek of 2025-11-20: 26 negativeWeek of 2025-11-27: 367 positiveWeek of 2025-11-27: 17 negativeWeek of 2025-12-04: 153 positiveWeek of 2025-12-04: 15 negativeWeek of 2025-12-11: 134 positiveWeek of 2025-12-11: 11 negativeWeek of 2025-12-18: 147 positiveWeek of 2025-12-18: 12 negativeWeek of 2025-12-25: 214 positiveWeek of 2025-12-25: 13 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 181 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2026-01-08: 143 positiveWeek of 2026-01-08: 5 negativeWeek of 2026-01-15: 115 positiveWeek of 2026-01-15: 9 negativeWeek of 2026-01-22: 218 positiveWeek of 2026-01-22: 11 negativeWeek of 2026-01-29: 205 positiveWeek of 2026-01-29: 6 negativeWeek of 2026-02-05: 188 positiveWeek of 2026-02-05: 12 negativeWeek of 2026-02-12: 173 positiveWeek of 2026-02-12: 16 negativeWeek of 2026-02-19: 167 positiveWeek of 2026-02-19: 6 negativeWeek of 2026-02-26: 108 positiveWeek of 2026-02-26: 7 negativeWeek of 2026-03-05: 111 positiveWeek of 2026-03-05: 8 negativeWeek of 2026-03-12: 92 positiveWeek of 2026-03-12: 5 negativeWeek of 2026-03-19: 137 positiveWeek of 2026-03-19: 7 negativeWeek of 2026-03-26: 116 positiveWeek of 2026-03-26: 5 negativeWeek of 2026-04-02: 103 positiveWeek of 2026-04-02: 8 negativeWeek of 2026-04-09: 99 positiveWeek of 2026-04-09: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-04-16: 109 positiveWeek of 2026-04-16: 7 negativeWeek of 2026-04-23: 86 positiveWeek of 2026-04-23: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-04-30: 96 positiveWeek of 2026-04-30: 9 negativeWeek of 2026-05-07: 139 positiveWeek of 2026-05-07: 6 negativeWeek of 2026-05-14: 126 positiveWeek of 2026-05-14: 5 negativeWeek of 2026-05-21: 592 positiveWeek of 2026-05-21: 41 negativeWeek of 2026-05-28: 453 positiveWeek of 2026-05-28: 26 negativeWeek of 2026-06-04: 344 positiveWeek of 2026-06-04: 20 negativeWeek of 2026-06-11: 228 positiveWeek of 2026-06-11: 13 negativeWeek of 2026-06-18: 152 positiveWeek of 2026-06-18: 9 negativeWeek of 2026-06-25: 200 positiveWeek of 2026-06-25: 11 negativeWeek of 2026-07-02: 188 positiveWeek of 2026-07-02: 15 negativeWeek of 2026-07-09: 123 positiveWeek of 2026-07-09: 10 negativeWeek of 2026-07-16: 111 positiveWeek of 2026-07-16: 9 negativeWeek of 2026-07-23: 104 positiveWeek of 2026-07-23: 9 negativeWeek of 2026-07-30: 105 positiveWeek of 2026-07-30: 12 negativeWeek of 2026-08-06: 123 positiveWeek of 2026-08-06: 7 negativeWeek of 2026-08-13: 34 positiveWeek of 2026-08-13: 4 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$9.99$7.992025-10-232026-08-132025-10-23 — best price $8.992025-11-03 — best price $9.992026-03-19 — best price $7.992026-03-26 — best price $9.992026-05-21 — best price $7.992026-06-04 — best price $9.992026-06-25 — best price $7.992026-07-09 — best price $9.992026-07-30 — best price $7.992026-08-13 — best price $9.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerMulti-playerCo-opOnline Co-opFull controller supportSteam CloudFamily Sharing1 DLC

11 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Simplified Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian

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.

Recent updates

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