Malicious Payload
Short description
Space pirates invaded your ship, they hacked your mainframe and gained controll of your robots. Your fellow robots turned into murdering robots. You need to find who responsible for this as a guard of your ship. Let him pay for what he done and get back what belongs to you.
- Developer
- Last Howl
- Publisher
- Last Howl
- Release
- Sat, Feb 06, 2021
- Price
- $0.99
- Reviews
- 7
- Positive
- 43%
- Followers
- 85
- Owners (estimated)
- 0 – 20K
- Concurrent players
- n/a
- Genres
- Action, Adventure, Casual, Indie
- Features
- Tracked Controller Support, VR Only, Stats, Steam Leaderboards
- Tags
Review count and SteamSpy's owner range agree well enough to narrow the estimate down to this band. Multiplied by the $0.99 launch price — there is not enough price history for this game to weight the copies by what they actually sold for. Before Steam's cut, VAT and refunds. How these numbers are calculated.
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Media
History
Tracking started Sep 4, 2026. Charts appear once there is more than one data point — nothing has changed since.
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