Thetaball overview

Overview

Thetaball comes from Tim Sheehan and is published by Tim Sheehan. It arrived on Steam on Jul 31, 2018, and it sits naturally among Single-player, Multi-player, PvP, Shared/Split Screen PvP, Co-op, Shared/Split Screen Co-op, Shared/Split Screen, and Steam Achievements. SteamPulse tracks it across Windows, Steam, and Xbox so readers get a quick useful snapshot, not just a wall of numbers.

Players and reviews

Thetaball's latest SteamPulse observation recorded 0 players at 5 October 2026 - 21:03:41 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 100% positive across 7 reviews.

Language and system requirements

Thetaball is available in 1 languages including:

regional rating details listed by Steam when available

Sales, recommendations, and streams

Thetaball has sold up to 226 units and has recommendation data pending. The estimated VGI revenue is $1,648. On Twitch, 0 streamers are live with around 0 total watchers.

Thetaball overview details

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

Steam Store description

Thetaball is an authentic digital sport with challenging, physics-based gameplay and lifelike AI. Each of the game's 256 robotic players is a distinct individual, created by a process of simulated evolution; because the bots have co-evolved within a complex physical environment -- both cooperating with and competing against one another -- their behaviors are diverse, robust, and lifelike. The end result is a game with all the challenge and re-playability of a real-world sport. In the single-player game, your task is to field a team of robotic athletes in order to advance through a series of progressively more challenging leagues, earning as many coins as you can along the way. You can remotely control any of the bots on your team, or let them play on their own. In the local-multiplayer game, 2-8 players choose up sides, with AI-controlled bots filling in the empty slots. About the Engine Generator is a specialized 2D game engine based on Evolutionary Robotics, a technique for the automated creation of simulated robots. The engine provides a C++ framework for generating populations of such robots and deploying them in a completed game. It also includes a heavily optimized, glitch-free physics module for simulating the environments in which the robots interact and evolve. Thetaball is the first game built on the Generator engine; more are planned. Some Thetaball Features A true physical (not statistical) simulation -- outcomes are determined not by "rolling dice" but by the actual physical interactions between players. Lifelike AI -- every bot is a distinct individual with…

SteamPulse editorial summary

Thetaball is listed as a game with $9.99. It supports Windows, belongs to Single-player, Multi-player, PvP, Shared/Split Screen PvP, Co-op, Shared/Split Screen Co-op, Shared/Split Screen, and Steam Achievements, and is associated with Action, Indie, Simulation, and Sports. SteamPulse's latest observation records 0 players at 5 October 2026 - 21:03:41 UTC, a tracked peak of 1, and 100% positive reviews.

Overview tags

IndieSimulationSportsActionPhysicsDifficult

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Support and legal notes

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