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Steel Storm: Burning Retribution cover art

Steel Storm: Burning Retribution

Kot in Action Creative Artel · 2011-05-11

Steam

ActionIndie

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative

Releases: Apr 03, 2011 (Mac), Apr 03, 2011 (Linux), Apr 03, 2011 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Control an advanced hovertank, packed with the most advanced and sophisticated weapons as you fight against extraterrestrial invaders.

0
playing now
60%
positive of 373 reviews
Mixed
steam rating
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
60/100
IGDB user rating (3 ratings)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$14.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 06:00 UTC (census sample)

Steel Storm is an independent video game series developed by Kot-in-Action Creative Artel using the free software DarkPlaces engine that were released for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux platforms. The game was added to the Humble Indie Bundle 3 on August 1, 2011. The games are divided into two episodes, with Episode One being available at no charge and Episode Two being a commercial product. They are top down arcade shooters where players control a hovercraft while battling presumed extraterrestrial invaders using a variety of different weapons.

Health check

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 50% of 10,936 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 15k–30k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 373 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $1.24 at GamersGate (2013-12-19) · bundled 6×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $14.99 · on sale 3 of 6 observed days (census price snapshots)

Players online

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Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$24.99$2.242015-01-012026-07-092015-01-01 — best price $4.952015-02-07 — best price $8.982015-03-07 — best price $8.162015-03-28 — best price $7.702015-04-24 — best price $8.402015-05-12 — best price $8.172015-07-01 — best price $9.742015-07-10 — best price $9.952015-07-23 — best price $7.752016-01-04 — best price $9.952016-07-07 — best price $24.992016-07-10 — best price $14.992016-12-22 — best price $4.492017-07-05 — best price $14.992017-11-01 — best price $14.992018-10-30 — best price $7.492018-11-27 — best price $14.992019-06-26 — best price $7.492019-11-01 — best price $14.992019-12-19 — best price $7.492020-07-09 — best price $14.992020-11-25 — best price $9.742021-01-05 — best price $14.992021-12-22 — best price $6.442022-02-03 — best price $14.992022-11-22 — best price $10.492023-01-05 — best price $14.992023-09-25 — best price $9.742023-11-28 — best price $14.992024-04-09 — best price $14.992024-12-19 — best price $2.242025-07-10 — best price $14.992025-12-18 — best price $7.492026-07-09 — best price $14.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

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Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsLinuxSingle-playerMulti-playerCo-opSteam Trading CardsPartial Controller SupportIncludes level editorFamily Sharing2 DLC

7 supported languages: English, French, German, Russian, Spanish - Spain, Polish, Portuguese - Portugal

Player tags

IndieActionArcadeSci-fiShooterShoot 'Em UpSingleplayerTop-Down Shooter

Census log

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

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