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Super Motherload cover art

Super Motherload

XGen Studios · 2014-04-04

SteamPlayStation Store

AdventureCasualIndieRPG

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer

Releases: Nov 22, 2013 (PlayStation 4), Nov 26, 2013 (PlayStation 3), Apr 04, 2014 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Set on Mars in an alternate Cold-War era, Super Motherload is a 1 to 4-player couch co-op digging adventure with storyline by Image Comics' Kurtis Wiebe, a fully voiced cast of Soviet and American characters, and a procedurally-generated world that changes each time you play.

6
playing now
76%
positive of 947 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam rating
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
73/100
critic score (6 outlets, IGDB)
72/100
IGDB user rating (5 ratings)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$14.99
steam price (US)

6 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 05:00 UTC (census sample)

Super Motherload is a video game developed by XGen Studios for the PlayStation 4. It was originally released on November 15, 2013, with later releases for PlayStation 3 and Windows. Super Motherload is the sequel to Motherload, an Adobe Flash game also developed by XGen Studios, released in 2004. In the game, players work for a corporation to collect minerals and gems on Mars.

Health check

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 31% of 11,424 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 24k–57k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 947 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $2.24 at Fanatical (2015-12-30) · bundled 2×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $14.99 · on sale 4 of 9 observed days (census price snapshots)

Players online

1012026-08-11 17:00 — 5 players2026-08-12 09:00 — 3 players2026-08-13 01:00 — 5 players2026-08-13 17:00 — 3 players2026-08-14 08:00 — 1 players2026-08-15 00:00 — 6 players2026-08-15 16:00 — 6 players2026-08-16 08:00 — 7 players2026-08-17 00:00 — 7 players2026-08-17 16:00 — 4 players2026-08-18 08:00 — 3 players2026-08-18 23:00 — 6 players2026-08-19 15:00 — 4 players2026-08-20 07:00 — 4 players2026-08-20 23:00 — 5 players2026-08-21 14:00 — 5 players2026-08-22 06:00 — 10 players2026-08-22 22:00 — 5 players2026-08-23 14:00 — 6 players2026-08-24 06:00 — 3 players2026-08-24 22:00 — 4 players2026-08-25 13:00 — 1 players2026-08-26 06:00 — 2 players2026-08-26 22:00 — 2 players2026-08-27 14:00 — 6 players2026-08-28 06:00 — 6 players2026-08-28 22:00 — 3 players2026-08-29 14:00 — 4 players2026-08-30 05:00 — 6 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$14.99$2.992015-01-012026-07-092015-01-01 — best price $14.992015-12-01 — best price $14.992016-09-22 — best price $14.992017-07-05 — best price $14.992017-12-21 — best price $3.742018-07-05 — best price $14.992019-04-29 — best price $14.992020-02-11 — best price $13.392020-05-18 — best price $11.012020-06-09 — best price $14.992020-07-09 — best price $14.992020-07-26 — best price $13.392020-08-13 — best price $13.392020-09-01 — best price $13.392020-09-19 — best price $13.392020-10-10 — best price $13.392020-11-03 — best price $14.992020-11-21 — best price $11.012020-12-21 — best price $14.992021-01-08 — best price $13.392021-01-27 — best price $13.392021-02-16 — best price $13.392021-03-07 — best price $13.392021-03-25 — best price $13.392021-04-17 — best price $13.392021-05-05 — best price $13.392021-05-23 — best price $13.392021-06-25 — best price $11.012021-12-02 — best price $14.992022-04-18 — best price $14.992022-10-10 — best price $3.742023-04-24 — best price $5.242023-12-18 — best price $14.992024-04-23 — best price $11.012024-09-27 — best price $3.742025-01-14 — best price $14.992025-06-26 — best price $4.492026-03-19 — best price $5.242026-07-09 — best price $14.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

3192026-06-01 — 25 pageviews2026-06-04 — 18 pageviews2026-06-07 — 18 pageviews2026-06-10 — 16 pageviews2026-06-13 — 13 pageviews2026-06-16 — 15 pageviews2026-06-19 — 17 pageviews2026-06-22 — 13 pageviews2026-06-25 — 14 pageviews2026-06-28 — 14 pageviews2026-07-01 — 11 pageviews2026-07-04 — 18 pageviews2026-07-07 — 19 pageviews2026-07-10 — 31 pageviews2026-07-13 — 18 pageviews2026-07-16 — 21 pageviews2026-07-19 — 19 pageviews2026-07-22 — 14 pageviews2026-07-25 — 17 pageviews2026-07-28 — 15 pageviews2026-07-31 — 14 pageviews2026-08-03 — 20 pageviews2026-08-06 — 22 pageviews2026-08-09 — 22 pageviews2026-08-12 — 14 pageviews2026-08-15 — 20 pageviews2026-08-18 — 16 pageviews2026-08-21 — 13 pageviews2026-08-24 — 12 pageviews2026-08-27 — 18 pageviews2026-08-29 — 20 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

9
achievements tracked
63.6%
earned "Move Along -- Nothing to see here"
12%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerMulti-playerShared/Split ScreenSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam Trading CardsSteam CloudRemote Play on PhoneRemote Play on TabletRemote Play on TV

4 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)2,9906%9
PS4 (PlayStation)2,9818%9
PS4 (PlayStation)79914%9
PS3 (PlayStation)70215%9
PS3 (PlayStation)62618%9

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

Player tags

RPGLootIndieCasualMiningSci-fiAdventureExplorationLocal Co-OpMultiplayer

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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