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The Anacrusis cover art

The Anacrusis

Stray Bombay · 2023-12-05

SteamEpic Games StoreMicrosoft Store

ActionIndie

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative

Releases: Jan 13, 2022 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Jan 13, 2022 (Xbox One), Jan 13, 2022 (Xbox Series X|S)

Battle for survival against endless alien hordes with your friends! The Anacrusis is a first-person shooter that dynamically adjusts difficulty to you. Experience intense 1-4 player co-op action or play as the aliens and stop your friends in 1-8 player Versus mode. Full Steam Workshop support!

2
playing now
47%
positive of 1.9k reviews
Mixed
steam rating
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
54/100
IGDB user rating (7 ratings)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$9.99
steam price (US)

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

The Anacrusis is a first-person shooter video game released in December 2023, following a period of early access that began in January 2022. Primarily a co-operative multiplayer game, a team of four must overcome hordes of alien invaders on board a space station to reach a specified goal. The game is the debut title by Stray Bombay, and the gameplay is similar to the Left 4 Dead series, on which studio co-founder Chet Faliszek had previously worked.

Health check

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 26% of 10,808 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 38k–85k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 1,886 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

Microsoft Store$9.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $2.49 at Steam (2024-05-27) · bundled 3×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $9.99 · on sale 5 of 11 observed days · $7.50 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Players online

202026-08-11 19:00 — 0 players2026-08-12 10:00 — 0 players2026-08-13 02:00 — 0 players2026-08-13 18:00 — 0 players2026-08-14 10:00 — 0 players2026-08-15 02:00 — 0 players2026-08-15 17:00 — 0 players2026-08-16 09:00 — 0 players2026-08-17 01:00 — 0 players2026-08-17 17:00 — 0 players2026-08-18 09:00 — 0 players2026-08-19 01:00 — 0 players2026-08-19 16:00 — 0 players2026-08-20 08:00 — 0 players2026-08-21 00:00 — 0 players2026-08-21 16:00 — 0 players2026-08-22 07:00 — 0 players2026-08-22 23:00 — 1 players2026-08-23 15:00 — 2 players2026-08-24 07:00 — 0 players2026-08-24 23:00 — 0 players2026-08-25 14:00 — 0 players2026-08-26 07:00 — 0 players2026-08-26 23:00 — 1 players2026-08-27 13:00 — 0 players2026-08-28 05:00 — 0 players2026-08-28 21:00 — 0 players2026-08-29 13:00 — 0 players2026-08-30 05:00 — 2 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$29.99$0.002022-01-132026-08-272022-01-13 — best price $23.992022-06-09 — best price $0.002022-11-22 — best price $8.992022-12-22 — best price $9.892023-02-20 — best price $9.992023-03-23 — best price $19.992023-04-10 — best price $19.992023-05-23 — best price $19.992023-07-13 — best price $19.992023-08-25 — best price $9.992023-09-01 — best price $9.992023-10-06 — best price $9.992023-10-23 — best price $19.992023-11-06 — best price $19.992023-11-28 — best price $19.992023-12-05 — best price $15.992023-12-21 — best price $9.992024-01-12 — best price $9.992024-03-14 — best price $4.992024-04-15 — best price $4.992024-05-27 — best price $2.492024-06-04 — best price $9.992024-07-11 — best price $4.992024-11-04 — best price $2.492024-11-27 — best price $4.992024-12-19 — best price $4.992025-03-13 — best price $4.992025-06-18 — best price $2.492025-06-27 — best price $4.992025-10-01 — best price $2.492025-11-03 — best price $2.492025-12-18 — best price $2.492026-03-19 — best price $4.992026-06-25 — best price $2.492026-08-27 — best price $9.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

19962026-05-29 — 12 pageviews2026-06-01 — 19 pageviews2026-06-04 — 21 pageviews2026-06-07 — 22 pageviews2026-06-10 — 11 pageviews2026-06-13 — 22 pageviews2026-06-16 — 23 pageviews2026-06-19 — 12 pageviews2026-06-22 — 32 pageviews2026-06-25 — 27 pageviews2026-06-28 — 12 pageviews2026-07-01 — 25 pageviews2026-07-04 — 13 pageviews2026-07-07 — 13 pageviews2026-07-10 — 20 pageviews2026-07-13 — 19 pageviews2026-07-16 — 16 pageviews2026-07-19 — 6 pageviews2026-07-22 — 31 pageviews2026-07-25 — 10 pageviews2026-07-28 — 199 pageviews2026-07-31 — 42 pageviews2026-08-03 — 36 pageviews2026-08-06 — 11 pageviews2026-08-09 — 15 pageviews2026-08-12 — 14 pageviews2026-08-15 — 51 pageviews2026-08-18 — 51 pageviews2026-08-21 — 25 pageviews2026-08-24 — 23 pageviews2026-08-26 — 28 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

55
achievements tracked
33%
earned "That’s a False Barry!"
1.7%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerMulti-playerPvPOnline PvPCo-opOnline Co-opCross-Platform MultiplayerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam Trading Cards

8 supported languages: English, French, German, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish - Latin America, Traditional Chinese

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)1,1641%55

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

Player tags

FPSPvEPvPCo-opSpaceActionSci-fiShooterModdableController

Census log

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

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