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The Walking Vegetables cover art

The Walking Vegetables

Still Running · MG Publishing · 2017-09-27

Steam

ActionIndie

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer

Releases: Sep 27, 2017 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

It’s the 1980’s and an evil alien race has invaded Earth, turning all vegetables into crawling, bawling, mauling abominations. You are about to join Department Radical, the grooviest police force on Earth. Are you a rad enough dude (or dame) to smite these ravenous creatures?

The Walking Vegetables is a $0.99 Action and Indie game released in 2017, with an estimated 20,000 to 50,000 owners and Very Positive (89% of 198 reviews).

0
playing now
89%
positive of 198 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
70/100
IGDB user rating (0 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$0.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 07:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 4 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 43% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 29% of 27,634 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-01

Estimated sales: 5.0k–12k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 198 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.69 at GamesPlanet UK (2022-05-01) · bundled 1×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $9.99 · on sale 41 of 56 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
8820172026Week of 2017-09-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2017-10-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2017-11-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

102026-09-15 08:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 16:00 — 0 players2026-09-18 00:00 — 1 players2026-09-19 07:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 15:00 — 0 players2026-09-21 22:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 06:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 13:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 21:00 — 0 players2026-09-27 05:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 12:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 20:00 — 0 players2026-10-01 03:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 11:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 18:00 — 0 players2026-10-05 02:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 10:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 17:00 — 1 players2026-10-09 01:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 08:00 — 1 players2026-10-11 16:00 — 0 players2026-10-13 00:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 07:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$9.99$0.702017-09-272026-08-222017-09-27 — best price $7.992018-01-03 — best price $9.992018-04-20 — best price $9.992018-08-12 — best price $2.272018-12-21 — best price $1.992019-06-01 — best price $9.992019-10-02 — best price $9.992020-01-23 — best price $1.492020-04-13 — best price $1.492020-06-08 — best price $1.122020-07-13 — best price $9.992020-08-12 — best price $9.992020-09-18 — best price $9.992020-10-20 — best price $9.992020-11-19 — best price $8.892020-12-19 — best price $9.992021-01-21 — best price $8.382021-02-24 — best price $9.992021-03-26 — best price $9.992021-04-26 — best price $8.762021-05-27 — best price $8.382021-08-18 — best price $8.382021-11-30 — best price $7.342022-02-14 — best price $9.992022-05-04 — best price $8.382022-08-05 — best price $0.992023-01-06 — best price $7.892023-05-25 — best price $7.892023-09-18 — best price $3.392023-12-11 — best price $2.592024-02-17 — best price $9.992024-04-29 — best price $1.502024-07-26 — best price $1.492024-10-01 — best price $7.342024-12-18 — best price $1.002025-05-23 — best price $1.002025-10-29 — best price $7.342026-01-30 — best price $7.342026-06-25 — best price $0.992026-08-22 — best price $0.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

22
achievements tracked
26.3%
earned "Tongue of Steel"
7.2%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSFull controller supportSingle-playerMulti-playerShared/Split ScreenSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam CloudRemote Play TogetherFamily Sharing

Player tags

2D1980sCo-opIndieActionColorfulRogue-liteSplit ScreenPixel GraphicsAction Roguelike

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.