Protolife overview

Overview

Protolife comes from Volcanic Giraffe and is published by Volcanic Giraffe. It arrived on Steam on Jun 15, 2018, and it sits naturally among Single-player, Steam Achievements, Full controller support, Steam Trading Cards, Steam Workshop, Includes level editor, and Family Sharing. SteamPulse tracks it across Windows, macOS, and Steam so readers get a quick useful snapshot, not just a wall of numbers.

Players and reviews

Protolife's latest SteamPulse observation recorded 1 players at 22 September 2026 - 19:13:12 UTC, with a tracked peak near 5. This peak is the highest value in the available SteamPulse record and may not include activity before tracking began. Player reaction is 86% positive across 468 reviews.

Language and system requirements

Protolife is available in 2 languages including:

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

Sales, recommendations, and streams

Protolife has sold up to 13,246 units and has 446 Steam recommendations. The estimated VGI revenue is $117,000. On Twitch, 0 streamers are live with around 0 total watchers.

Protolife overview details

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

Steam Store description

15 years since the first colonization parties landed on Gagarin-5. 15 years of tedious yet satisfying work on making this planet our home. I miss these years now. It all happened in mere days. The corruption spread across our lands, waves of crimson doom washed away our mushroom farms, and giant worms devoured our cities. As far as I know, only few thousands of people were able to escape into the emergency bases. Now the thing.. is dormant. It sleeps during the day, and grows only slowly over the night, filled with tumors, blights and rolling, nauseating pink lights. This small opening seems to be our only chance to fight back, to clean the planet. And we are sure to take it. Gameplay Stand to defend a distant human colony against the growing lifeform that devours everything in its wake. Build complex defenses from the simplest element possible – a single block, save few remaining settlements and clean the planetary surface from the corruption in this original tower-based RTS. Initially built for a Ludum Dare 38 game jam, it was completely redesigned, got a graphics update, tons of new content, but still works around a simple idea: build towers from blocks, contain the enemy, survive the night onslaught and strike back. Key features Unique approach to building process: Every tower is constructed from patterns of simple blocks. Build your defense grid piece by piece the way you like it, upgrade, combine, optimize space and resources to survive against the overwhelming odds. An enemy unlike usual RTS adversaries: Growing, living entity designed to exploit every small weakn…

SteamPulse editorial summary

Protolife is listed as a game with $11.99. It supports Windows and macOS, belongs to Single-player, Steam Achievements, Full controller support, Steam Trading Cards, Steam Workshop, Includes level editor, and Family Sharing, and is associated with Indie and Strategy. SteamPulse's latest observation records 1 players at 22 September 2026 - 19:13:12 UTC, a tracked peak of 5, and 86% positive reviews.

Overview tags

Tower DefensePixel GraphicsRTSBase-BuildingStrategySci-fiIndieSingleplayerAliensTop-DownRetroAtmosphericDark

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