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Starship Annihilator cover art

Starship Annihilator

IR Studio · 2016-09-02

Steam

ActionIndie

Modes: Single player

Releases: Sep 02, 2016 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

A classic style vertical scrolling-shooter. Includes 10 levels and 10 boss enemies. You will have several power-ups for weapon modification. Within each level, you will face different enemies, among which will vary from low to extreme levels of threat!

Starship Annihilator is a 2016 Action, Indie game priced at $0.49, with an owner estimate of 200,000 .. 500,000 and a review sentiment of Mixed (63% of 380 reviews).

1
playing now
63%
positive of 380 reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$0.49
steam price (US)

1 players in-game as of 2026-10-15 05:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 1 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 12 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity up 140% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 23% of 27,912 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-31

Estimated sales: 9.5k–23k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 380 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.37 at Steam (2022-11-22) · bundled 2×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $0.99 · on sale 10 of 20 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
161620172026Week of 2017-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

10302026-09-15 15:00 — 2 players2026-09-16 23:00 — 24 players2026-09-18 06:00 — 14 players2026-09-19 14:00 — 2 players2026-09-20 21:00 — 3 players2026-09-22 05:00 — 2 players2026-09-23 13:00 — 1 players2026-09-24 20:00 — 6 players2026-09-26 04:00 — 2 players2026-09-27 11:00 — 10 players2026-09-28 19:00 — 4 players2026-09-30 02:00 — 28 players2026-10-01 10:00 — 1 players2026-10-02 17:00 — 1 players2026-10-04 01:00 — 1 players2026-10-05 09:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 16:00 — 3 players2026-10-08 00:00 — 53 players2026-10-09 07:00 — 1 players2026-10-10 15:00 — 103 players2026-10-11 23:00 — 2 players2026-10-13 06:00 — 37 players2026-10-14 14:00 — 0 players2026-10-15 05:00 — 1 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
1960Sep 2016Aug 2026Sep 2016 — avg 0 · peak 6Dec 2016 — avg 1 · peak 6Mar 2017 — avg 1 · peak 8Jun 2017 — avg 3 · peak 135Sep 2017 — avg 4 · peak 260Dec 2017 — avg 40 · peak 549Mar 2018 — avg 25 · peak 649Jun 2018 — avg 3 · peak 65Sep 2018 — avg 3 · peak 98Dec 2018 — avg 2 · peak 38Mar 2019 — avg 0 · peak 2Jun 2019 — avg 0 · peak 12Sep 2019 — avg 0 · peak 4Dec 2019 — avg 5 · peak 65Mar 2020 — avg 2 · peak 7Jun 2020 — avg 1 · peak 25Sep 2020 — avg 1 · peak 30Dec 2020 — avg 2 · peak 7Mar 2021 — avg 7 · peak 526Jun 2021 — avg 21 · peak 624Sep 2021 — avg 10 · peak 126Dec 2021 — avg 22 · peak 926Mar 2022 — avg 196 · peak 15,747Jun 2022 — avg 18 · peak 79Sep 2022 — avg 15 · peak 592Dec 2022 — avg 81 · peak 2,038Mar 2023 — avg 35 · peak 1,588Jun 2023 — avg 14 · peak 90Sep 2023 — avg 6 · peak 62Dec 2023 — avg 44 · peak 1,654Mar 2024 — avg 11 · peak 530Jun 2024 — avg 43 · peak 1,216Sep 2024 — avg 22 · peak 312Apr 2025 — avg 18 · peak 327Aug 2025 — avg 5 · peak 59Nov 2025 — avg 14 · peak 145Feb 2026 — avg 94 · peak 1,608May 2026 — avg 8 · peak 139Aug 2026 — avg 10 · peak 260
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$3.59$0.372016-09-032026-08-242016-09-03 — best price $3.592016-12-02 — best price $0.992017-04-10 — best price $0.992017-08-28 — best price $0.992017-11-28 — best price $0.992018-02-19 — best price $0.992018-09-05 — best price $0.992019-01-04 — best price $0.992019-06-26 — best price $0.492019-10-28 — best price $0.492020-01-02 — best price $0.492020-04-30 — best price $0.492020-10-17 — best price $0.992020-12-16 — best price $0.992021-02-15 — best price $0.992021-07-08 — best price $0.992021-11-01 — best price $0.992022-01-05 — best price $0.992022-03-23 — best price $0.992022-08-05 — best price $0.992022-11-22 — best price $0.372023-01-19 — best price $0.372023-05-07 — best price $0.372023-08-12 — best price $1.992023-11-21 — best price $0.492024-03-14 — best price $0.492024-06-27 — best price $0.492024-10-09 — best price $0.492024-12-22 — best price $0.492025-03-21 — best price $0.492025-08-25 — best price $0.492025-11-28 — best price $0.492026-02-24 — best price $0.492026-05-25 — best price $0.492026-08-24 — best price $0.49
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

13
achievements tracked
3.5%
earned "First in Space"
1.5%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam Trading CardsPartial Controller SupportFamily Sharing

4 supported languages: English, German, Russian, Ukrainian

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)75625%13

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

Player tags

IndieActionShoot 'Em Up

Census log

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

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