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The Thing: Tower Defense

booblyc · Booblyc OU · 2016-11-10

Steam

ActionIndieStrategy

Modes: Single player

Releases: Nov 10, 2016 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

With over 50,000,000 plays over the previous parts, the Incursion series has enthralled and challenged many players over the years. Now you can save your world from darkness in new Incursion: The Thing. Bigger! Faster! Stronger!

64%
positive of 81 reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
$4.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 17 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity up 55% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 47% of 23,069 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 2.0k–4.9k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 81 total reviews — how this is computed.

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
4420162026Week of 2016-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-11-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2017-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2017-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-09-01: 3 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$4.99$1.992016-11-112020-05-042016-11-11 — best price $2.992016-11-17 — best price $4.992017-02-10 — best price $1.992017-02-24 — best price $4.992017-06-22 — best price $1.992017-07-05 — best price $4.992017-10-26 — best price $1.992017-11-01 — best price $4.992017-11-22 — best price $1.992017-11-28 — best price $4.992017-12-21 — best price $1.992018-01-04 — best price $4.992018-10-30 — best price $1.992018-11-01 — best price $4.992018-11-21 — best price $1.992018-11-27 — best price $4.992018-12-20 — best price $1.992019-01-04 — best price $4.992020-04-30 — best price $1.992020-05-04 — best price $4.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam Trading CardsFamily Sharing

Player tags

IndieActionStrategyTower Defense

Census log

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

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