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The Anacrusis

Stray Bombay · 2023-12-05

SteamEpic Games StoreMicrosoft Store

ActionIndie

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative · Perspectives: First person

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!

The Anacrusis is an Action Indie game released in 2023, priced at $9.99, with an estimated 100,000 .. 200,000 owners and a Mixed review sentiment (46% of 1887 reviews).

0
playing now
46%
positive of 1.9k reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
54/100
IGDB user rating (7 ratings)
1
Nexus mods (8 downloads)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Verified
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$9.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 15:00 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

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 14 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity down 36% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (194 reviews).
  • · Top 11% of 27,649 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-31

Estimated sales: 38k–85k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 1,887 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 4 of 15 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
14114120222026Week of 2022-01-01: 141 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 53 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 32 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 68 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 21 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

502026-09-15 00:00 — 2 players2026-09-16 08:00 — 1 players2026-09-17 16:00 — 0 players2026-09-18 23:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 07:00 — 0 players2026-09-21 14:00 — 0 players2026-09-22 22:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 05:00 — 1 players2026-09-25 13:00 — 0 players2026-09-26 20:00 — 1 players2026-09-28 04:00 — 1 players2026-09-29 11:00 — 0 players2026-09-30 19:00 — 1 players2026-10-02 02:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 10:00 — 0 players2026-10-04 18:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 02:00 — 3 players2026-10-07 09:00 — 1 players2026-10-08 17:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 00:00 — 2 players2026-10-11 08:00 — 3 players2026-10-12 15:00 — 2 players2026-10-13 23:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 15:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$29.99$0.002022-01-132026-10-082022-01-13 — 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 $9.992026-09-10 — best price $9.992026-09-24 — best price $9.992026-10-08 — best price $9.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

19982026-05-29 — 12 pageviews2026-06-02 — 14 pageviews2026-06-06 — 22 pageviews2026-06-10 — 11 pageviews2026-06-14 — 20 pageviews2026-06-18 — 14 pageviews2026-06-22 — 32 pageviews2026-06-26 — 33 pageviews2026-06-30 — 27 pageviews2026-07-04 — 13 pageviews2026-07-08 — 34 pageviews2026-07-12 — 19 pageviews2026-07-16 — 16 pageviews2026-07-20 — 21 pageviews2026-07-24 — 21 pageviews2026-07-28 — 199 pageviews2026-08-01 — 31 pageviews2026-08-05 — 15 pageviews2026-08-09 — 15 pageviews2026-08-13 — 8 pageviews2026-08-17 — 35 pageviews2026-08-21 — 25 pageviews2026-08-25 — 17 pageviews2026-08-29 — 10 pageviews2026-09-02 — 26 pageviews2026-09-06 — 20 pageviews2026-09-10 — 26 pageviews2026-09-14 — 60 pageviews2026-09-18 — 71 pageviews2026-09-22 — 50 pageviews2026-09-26 — 26 pageviews2026-09-30 — 22 pageviews2026-10-04 — 15 pageviews2026-10-07 — 57 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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