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The Thing: Space X cover art

The Thing: Space X

LillyWelland inc. · Bitlock Studio · 2017-09-20

Steam

ActionAdventureIndie

Modes: Single player

Releases: Sep 20, 2017 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

At your disposal are a dozen of the best combat spacecraft equipped with death beams, machine guns and missiles. The sector is divided into several subsectors, which swarm with enemies. In the end, you will have an unbeatable boss - the "Thing".

49%
positive of 86 reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
50/100
IGDB user rating (1 ratings)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$0.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 6 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 33% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 44% of 24,456 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 2.1k–5.2k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 86 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.30 at Steam (2022-11-22) · bundled 3×via IsThereAnyDeal

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
6620172026Week of 2017-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2017-11-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2017-11-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2017-12-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-02-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Player tags

IndieActionAdventure

Census log

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

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