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Volcanoids

Volcanoid · 2019-01-29

Steam

ActionAdventureIndieSimulationEarly Access

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

Releases: Jan 29, 2019 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Jan 29, 2019 (Linux)

A base-building open-world survival shooter that replaces your typical base with a giant drill. Alone or with friends, explore an island plagued by eruptions, upgrade your drill, and fight robots to uncover what's been hiding beneath the surface.

Volcanoids is an Action, Adventure, Indie and Simulation game released in 2019, priced at $19.99, with an estimated 200,000 .. 500,000 owners and a Very Positive review sentiment (83% of 9352 reviews).

17
playing now
83%
positive of 9.4k reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
60/100
IGDB user rating (5 ratings)
7
Nexus mods (4.8k downloads)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$19.99
steam price (US)

17 players in-game as of 2026-10-15 04:00 UTC (census sample)

Trailer

Volcanoids trailer thumbnail

Volcanoids - Announcement Trailer

≈260,716 YouTube results for this game's trailer search

Health check

Healthy
  • · 17 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 254 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~32/week).
  • · Review velocity up 0% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 5% of 27,908 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-28

Estimated sales: 234k–561k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 9,352 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $11.83 at GreenManGaming (2021-07-30) · bundled 1×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $19.99 · on sale 1 of 3 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
40040020192026Week of 2019-01-01: 95 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2019-02-01: 114 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 35 negativeWeek of 2019-03-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2019-04-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-05-01: 39 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 21 negativeWeek of 2019-06-01: 45 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 41 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2019-08-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-09-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-10-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-11-01: 121 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2019-12-01: 49 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 44 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2020-02-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-03-01: 33 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 166 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 54 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 85 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 48 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 32 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 72 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 69 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 90 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 62 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 400 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 51 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 162 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 20 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 105 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 23 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 93 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 72 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 125 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 164 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 17 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 115 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 107 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 219 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 37 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 128 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 26 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 72 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 76 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 132 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 135 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 84 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 64 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 16 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 50 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 72 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 81 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 81 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 22 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 166 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 51 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 83 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 22 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 79 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 26 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 81 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 25 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 55 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 245 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 62 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 127 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 18 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 61 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 19 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 129 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 21 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 175 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 76 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 88 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 16 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 91 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 52 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 72 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 132 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 67 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 86 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 23 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 40 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 92 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 23 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 66 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 59 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 61 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 18 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 64 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 25 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 31 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 34 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 39 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 83 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 19 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 43 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 43 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 44 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 32 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 34 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 29 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 32 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 33 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 35 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 6 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

6982026-09-15 13:00 — 20 players2026-09-16 21:00 — 38 players2026-09-18 05:00 — 8 players2026-09-19 12:00 — 36 players2026-09-20 20:00 — 59 players2026-09-22 04:00 — 13 players2026-09-23 11:00 — 18 players2026-09-24 19:00 — 27 players2026-09-26 02:00 — 24 players2026-09-27 10:00 — 30 players2026-09-28 17:00 — 21 players2026-09-30 01:00 — 19 players2026-10-01 08:00 — 9 players2026-10-02 16:00 — 39 players2026-10-03 23:00 — 35 players2026-10-05 07:00 — 26 players2026-10-06 15:00 — 36 players2026-10-07 22:00 — 20 players2026-10-09 06:00 — 18 players2026-10-10 13:00 — 51 players2026-10-11 21:00 — 50 players2026-10-13 05:00 — 13 players2026-10-14 12:00 — 24 players2026-10-15 04:00 — 17 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
47312Feb 2019Aug 2026Feb 2019 — avg 93 · peak 460May 2019 — avg 49 · peak 424Aug 2019 — avg 12 · peak 29Nov 2019 — avg 57 · peak 359Feb 2020 — avg 27 · peak 97May 2020 — avg 181 · peak 1,265Aug 2020 — avg 39 · peak 96Nov 2020 — avg 69 · peak 299Feb 2021 — avg 171 · peak 488May 2021 — avg 72 · peak 205Aug 2021 — avg 120 · peak 333Nov 2021 — avg 154 · peak 348Feb 2022 — avg 106 · peak 393May 2022 — avg 87 · peak 222Aug 2022 — avg 104 · peak 332Nov 2022 — avg 134 · peak 367Feb 2023 — avg 167 · peak 491May 2023 — avg 155 · peak 396Aug 2023 — avg 134 · peak 286Nov 2023 — avg 113 · peak 414Feb 2024 — avg 75 · peak 210May 2024 — avg 107 · peak 391Aug 2024 — avg 72 · peak 163Nov 2024 — avg 62 · peak 176Feb 2025 — avg 85 · peak 233May 2025 — avg 69 · peak 155Aug 2025 — avg 67 · peak 172Nov 2025 — avg 46 · peak 101Feb 2026 — avg 40 · peak 90May 2026 — avg 62 · peak 237Aug 2026 — avg 43 · peak 111
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$19.99$11.832019-01-302026-07-092019-01-30 — best price $19.992019-11-01 — best price $19.992020-02-04 — best price $19.992020-05-27 — best price $19.992020-06-14 — best price $16.682020-07-13 — best price $19.992020-08-26 — best price $17.992020-09-13 — best price $17.992020-10-04 — best price $17.992020-10-22 — best price $17.992020-11-07 — best price $17.992020-11-25 — best price $15.992020-12-13 — best price $19.992020-12-31 — best price $19.992021-01-16 — best price $16.882021-02-06 — best price $17.992021-02-24 — best price $16.882021-03-15 — best price $16.882021-04-02 — best price $16.882021-04-20 — best price $16.882021-05-08 — best price $16.882021-05-27 — best price $15.992021-07-30 — best price $11.832021-10-05 — best price $16.882021-11-16 — best price $15.892022-01-05 — best price $19.992022-03-20 — best price $19.992022-06-14 — best price $17.992022-09-30 — best price $15.742023-01-05 — best price $19.992023-04-17 — best price $13.992023-07-18 — best price $17.882023-12-21 — best price $13.992024-03-19 — best price $17.882024-07-02 — best price $17.882024-12-07 — best price $13.992025-06-26 — best price $13.992026-07-09 — best price $19.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

40
achievements tracked
80%
earned "The Underminer!"
4.5%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsLinuxFull controller supportSingle-playerMulti-playerCo-opOnline Co-opSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam WorkshopSteam CloudFamily Sharing

14 supported languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Czech, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Italian, Polish, Dutch…

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)11,3540%40

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

Where its players are

Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.

Player tags

Co-opActionShooterCraftingSurvivalAdventureSteampunkOpen WorldAtmosphericExploration

Census log

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

Recent updates

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Similarity via IGDB.

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