The Specimen overview

Overview

The Specimen comes from genepistudios and is published by genepistudios. It arrived on Steam on September 2026, and it sits naturally among Single-player and Family Sharing. SteamPulse tracks it across Windows so readers get a quick useful snapshot, not just a wall of numbers.

Players and reviews

The Specimen's latest SteamPulse observation recorded 0 players at observation time unavailable, with a tracked peak near 0. This peak is the highest value in the available SteamPulse record and may not include activity before tracking began. Player reaction is 0% positive across 0 reviews.

Language and system requirements

The Specimen is available in 1 languages including:

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

Sales, recommendations, and streams

The Specimen has no public VGI unit-sales estimate available and has recommendation data pending. Revenue data is not available for this game yet. On Twitch, 0 streamers are live with around 0 total watchers.

The Specimen overview details

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

Steam Store description

Something is out there, and humanity's answer is a bioweapon launched on a dying ship. Each run sends your specimen further into hostile space — evolving, fighting, scavenging — until the fuel runs dry or the vessel breaks apart. What you salvage comes home. The rest doesn't. Each run is one vessel. One specimen. One tank of fuel. You're sent to push through star systems crawling with alien threats, each one deadlier than the last. A boss guards the exit of every system. You won't survive them all...not this time. But that was never the plan. Your specimen's genetic traits will determine its fate. Each encounter with an alien threat triggers an auto-battle where your different mutations and upgrades will face enemies of ever growing strength and agility. The real strategy happens before the fight: choosing mutations that stack thorns, freeze, heals, and many other upgrades. Your bioweapon benefits both from in-run freshly rolled mutations as well as powerful meta-progression in-between runs, where you spend your savage carefully to unlock an ever more powerful bioweapon as you push deeper into space and unknown star systems. Explore ever more threatening star systems each with its own branching node map. Every path and every fork is a tradeoff. Dangerous nodes guard better salvage. Safe routes gather fuel or health but starve your specimen of power. Fuel is your lifeline. When it runs out, the run ends whether you're ready or not. There's no perfect route. Just the one you can afford. When your vessel is destroyed — or your fuel runs dry — you launch a data capsule ba…

SteamPulse editorial summary

The Specimen is listed as a game with No longer available on Steam Store. It supports Windows, belongs to Single-player and Family Sharing, and is associated with RPG and Strategy. SteamPulse's latest observation records 0 players at observation time unavailable, a tracked peak of 0, and review score data when available.

Support and legal notes

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