Desperate Times overview

Overview

Desperate Times comes from Yokcos and is published by Yokcos. It arrived on Steam on Sep 30, 2016, and it sits naturally among Single-player, Steam Achievements, Full controller support, Steam Trading Cards, 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

Desperate Times's latest SteamPulse observation recorded 0 players at 13 September 2026 - 08:24:43 UTC, with a tracked peak near 1. This peak is the highest value in the available SteamPulse record and may not include activity before tracking began. Player reaction is 80% positive across 10 reviews.

Language and system requirements

Desperate Times is available in 1 languages including:

regional rating details listed by Steam when available

Sales, recommendations, and streams

Desperate Times has sold up to 600 units and has recommendation data pending. The estimated VGI revenue is $2,376. On Twitch, 0 streamers are live with around 0 total watchers.

Desperate Times overview details

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

Steam Store description

The videogame to bring you a gun that shoots a sword that shoots hammers that explode into lightning. DESPERATE TIMES is a spectacular shmup in which when you run out of ammo, you transform into another ship. The enemies are plentiful, the weapons absurd. Blast and dodge your way through five levels of challenging waves, each wave being hand-crafted but chosen at random. You don't know what's coming next but you know it'll be good. Desperate Times is not a game that is easy in the least. Even though you can and probably will receive apocalyptic weapons, you will still have to pay attention and use great skill in order to win. 41 base weapons are available at the time of writing. But there's more: Each weapon can be received with any number of weapon mods. Instead of a Hypercannon , you could get a Giant Hypercannon , a Triple Hypercannon or even something along the lines of a Giant Triple Penetrating Explosive Hyper Hypercannon ! With that taken into account, the number of available weapons is over 2,000! Every adversary in every wave is tweaked to make the wave present a unique challenge, or serve some specific purpose. Some enemies will appear shielded, some will shoot far more aggressively than usual, some will move in an elaborate dance around the screen before buggering off back to wherever they came from. Which wave you'll see next is random, and so the game is replayable. What are you doing in this game? You're destroying things. Literally thousands of enemy ships will attack you. Annihilate a bunch of them and pass through without perishing and you will be allowed…

SteamPulse editorial summary

Desperate Times is listed as a game with $4.99. It supports Windows, belongs to Single-player, Steam Achievements, Full controller support, Steam Trading Cards, and Family Sharing, and is associated with Action and Indie. SteamPulse's latest observation records 0 players at 13 September 2026 - 08:24:43 UTC, a tracked peak of 1, and 80% positive reviews.

Overview tags

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