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WireNet cover art

WireNet

Xero TR-MMXZ · Xitilon · 2017-08-25

Steam

ActionCasualIndie

Modes: Single player

Releases: Aug 25, 2017 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Dec 26, 2024 (PlayStation 4)

Minimalistic scroll-shooter with green-on-black pseudo-vector display. Rush through the isometric madness of WireNet to the NeuroCore!

WireNet is an Action, Casual, and Indie game released in 2017, priced at $4.99, with an estimated 20,000 to 50,000 owners and a Mixed review sentiment (67% of 33 reviews).

0
playing now
67%
positive of 33 reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$4.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 09:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 5 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity up 0% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 62% of 27,656 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-02

All-time low: $0.49 at Steam (2018-02-15) · bundled 4×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $4.99 · on sale 1 of 2 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
1120172023Week of 2017-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

002026-09-15 10:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 18:00 — 0 players2026-09-18 02:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 09:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 17:00 — 0 players2026-09-22 00:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 08:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 16:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 23:00 — 0 players2026-09-27 07:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 14:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 22:00 — 0 players2026-10-01 05:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 13:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 20:00 — 0 players2026-10-05 04:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 12:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 19:00 — 0 players2026-10-09 03:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 10:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 18:00 — 0 players2026-10-13 02:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 09:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$4.99$0.492017-08-262026-07-092017-08-26 — best price $2.992017-11-01 — best price $4.992017-12-18 — best price $0.992018-01-05 — best price $4.992018-04-01 — best price $0.492018-06-22 — best price $0.492018-09-16 — best price $0.512018-11-01 — best price $3.992018-12-14 — best price $0.512019-01-03 — best price $3.992019-02-24 — best price $0.512019-05-08 — best price $0.502019-07-09 — best price $2.992019-09-17 — best price $0.502019-11-01 — best price $2.992019-12-19 — best price $0.502020-01-27 — best price $2.992020-05-11 — best price $0.502020-07-09 — best price $2.992020-10-29 — best price $0.502020-12-01 — best price $2.992021-02-11 — best price $0.502021-06-24 — best price $0.492021-11-01 — best price $4.992021-12-22 — best price $0.492022-02-03 — best price $4.992022-06-24 — best price $0.492022-09-05 — best price $4.992023-07-31 — best price $0.492023-11-28 — best price $4.992024-08-05 — best price $0.992025-03-11 — best price $4.992025-06-26 — best price $0.792026-07-09 — best price $4.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Player tags

2DIndieRetroActionArcadeCasualGameMakerFast-PacedSingleplayerPixel Graphics

Census log

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

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