Protolife

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Protolife

Short description

Protolife is an unique tower-based strategy game which gives you a direct control over the builder robot in a struggle against the hungry proto-life organism.

Developer
Volcanic Giraffe
Publisher
Volcanic Giraffe
Release
Fri, Jun 15, 2018
Price
$11.99
Reviews
447
Positive
86%
Followers
3,929
Owners (estimated)
50K – 100K
Concurrent players
n/a
Genres
Indie, Strategy
Features
Full controller support, Steam Trading Cards, Steam Workshop, Includes level editor
Tags
Tower Defense Pixel Graphics RTS Base-Building Strategy Sci-fi Indie Singleplayer Aliens Top-Down Retro Atmospheric Dark
Revenue (estimated, gross)~$233ksomewhere between $103k and $1.2m · roughly 9K–100K copies

Review count and SteamSpy's owner range disagree, so the band is widened to cover both rather than picking a favourite. Multiplied by $11.56, the average price these copies actually sold for — weighted from the price history rather than taken from the $11.99 launch price. That is 4% below list price on average. Before Steam's cut, VAT and refunds. How these numbers are calculated.

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History

8 data points since Jul 30, 2026. Gaps mean nothing changed — the value carries forward.

Revenue (est.) ~$231k → ~$233k
Reviews 444 → 447
Followers 3,926 → 3,929
Price $11.99 → $11.99
Positive reviews 86.0% → 85.9%

The revenue curve is an estimate, not a measurement. It is the only calculated series here: each interval takes the review growth of that period, multiplies it by the sales-per-review factor and by the price actually charged at the time, and adds the result to the running total. That is why it climbs more slowly through discount periods than the review curve next to it. The last point is the same figure quoted above — gross, before Steam's cut, VAT and refunds. How these numbers are calculated.

The blurred area is the rest of the history. 148 further data points reach back to Jun 1, 2018 — your plan shows the last 90 days of it. How far each series in particular reaches is written on its own chart; not every one of them goes back that far. The shape in the blurred area is decoration, not data: the figures are not in this page at all. Plus unlocks the complete series.

Lowest recorded price: $5.99 on Nov 26, 2019.

How crowded is this niche?

How full the niche around Protolife is — measured on the tags it leads with, against every other combination on Steam.

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