Vortex: The Gateway overview

Overview

Vortex: The Gateway comes from StormCube Games and is published by StormCube Games. It arrived on Steam on Mar 22, 2016, and it sits naturally among Single-player, Steam Achievements, Full controller support, Captions available, and Family Sharing. SteamPulse tracks it across Windows and Steam so readers get a quick useful snapshot, not just a wall of numbers.

Players and reviews

Vortex: The Gateway's latest SteamPulse observation recorded 0 players at 22 September 2026 - 09:40:23 UTC, with a tracked peak near 2. This peak is the highest value in the available SteamPulse record and may not include activity before tracking began. Player reaction is 57% positive across 398 reviews.

Language and system requirements

Vortex: The Gateway is available in 12 languages including:

3 regional rating boards including dejus, steam germany, and igrs

Sales, recommendations, and streams

Vortex: The Gateway has sold up to 16,762 units and has 306 Steam recommendations. The estimated VGI revenue is $175,000. On Twitch, 0 streamers are live with around 0 total watchers.

Vortex: The Gateway overview details

Vortex: The Gateway combines live player counts with reviews, pricing, platform support, Store metadata, dated player history, media, recent news, and related games.

Steam Store description

Vortex: The Gateway is an open world survival horror game with two game modes. Due to a mysterious dimension vortex you will find yourself on an alien planet. Explore, adapt, build and fight to survive. You will have to face the dangers of the planet at different times of day, at changing temperature, hungry or thirsty. You can explore spectacular and dangerous places where you always remain a prey for the local species. If you want to survive then be alert, sneak, build and fight. Meanwhile life back on Earth changes dramatically. What changes? You will get bits of information through your adventure in the story mode . Maybe you can even get back home... In survival mode you have to take care of your friend Mike, who has a severe leg injury. You have to keep him alive and protect him from the dangers of the island. The dangerous aliens feels the weakness and will try to hunt him down. Don't let them succeed. Build and collect resources at day, plan your strategy to keep the attackers out at night. More and more might come as the days passes. Features story mode: escape from the island survival mode: protect yourself and your injured friend a huge, diverse and fully explorable alien island with a unique atmosphere, visuals and emblematic sceneries non-generated environment, every location was designed by hand dynamic day-night cycle crafting system: harvest resources to create equipment by combining them together building system: build shelters, fences, storage, fire, etc. survival aspects: hunger, thirst, stamina, health, different temperatures, hiding living faun…

SteamPulse editorial summary

Vortex: The Gateway is listed as a game with $3.19 (60% off from $7.99). It supports Windows, belongs to Single-player, Steam Achievements, Full controller support, Captions available, and Family Sharing, and is associated with Action, Adventure, and Indie. SteamPulse's latest observation records 0 players at 22 September 2026 - 09:40:23 UTC, a tracked peak of 2, and 57% positive reviews.

Overview tags

Open World Survival CraftSurvivalAdventureOpen WorldActionIndieCraftingSurvival HorrorAliensBuildingHorrorEarly AccessFirst-PersonSingleplayer

Content descriptors

The game contains violence and gore.

Highlighted achievements

Support and legal notes

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