First appearing in arcades in 1981, the masterpiece GALAGA finally comes to Steam! Move the fighter left and right and destroy the waves of incoming aliens!
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Discounts
Every price cut of more than 20% we have observed, in each market that quoted one, with this game's chart position on either side of it. These are episodes, not a model: a sale is one event, and one event cannot tell you what the next one will do.
Reviews, worldwide (the counter carries no country): 0/day in the week to Sep 4 → 0.29/day in the week after.
For scale, across Steam · Top Sellers · Brazil over the last 30 days: the 25 chart moves that followed a price cut of more than 20% went a median of 10 places towards #1, and the 2,413 moves with no price cut behind them went 2 away. One store, one chart, one country — it is the only place we have enough observations to say even that.
Prices outside the United States have been collected since 6 August 2026 and chart positions since 19 July 2026, so a cut older than that has no market to compare and a market that joined later has no history yet. Nothing here is converted between currencies.
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Genres
Sums Steam only; PlayStation, Xbox publish no volume signal, so the true total is higher by an unknown amount.
| Store | Price | Audience | Score | Chart | Est. revenue |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
SteamYou are here | $1.99−50% | 842reviews | 92% | — | $35.8K |
| $3.99 | 1.8Kratings | 89% | — | not modelled | |
Engagement
Reviews
Themes across 56 recent reviews and how positive each mention is. A keyword signal, not full sentiment analysis.
Reviews
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Dude, I put 2 dollars worth of quarters in this thing and still haven't beaten it. The microtransactions in this during the Arcade days were INSANE.. Good thing I can now play it at home as much as I want, FOREVER.
Every enemy formation keeps you on your toes, rewarding quick reactions and precise movement.
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All-time low is the lowest price we've recorded for this game since we started tracking it.
Languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese
| $3.99 |
| 635ratings |
| 84% |
| — |
| not modelled |
Matched by title — a reused name can pair the wrong games. * is a critic aggregate. Prices and positions are each store's United States storefront; Epic charts worldwide. Audience and Score too, except Steam's, which is worldwide.
Hours played at review time, across 56 reviews with recorded playtime.
positive critical· bar length = how often the theme comes up
I love galaga but absolutely hate this version, you couldn't add fast shoot???? Like really why couldn't you just add that feature??? I DON"T CARE ABOUT THE TRADITIONAL ARCADE EXPERIENCE! Make a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ update to the game and add those ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ features that should have been there from the very beginning, and why is a 650 kb ROM 750 mb???? This version sucks, go download the ROM illegally instead and play it on MAME like normal person. I cannot stress how much I hate this version as it feels bloated and incomplete, I don't want arcade cabinet art on the sides of my screen that is dumb and a complete waste of space, it's either fast shoot of ♥♥♥♥ YOU
i mean it's kind of a basic and pretty middling port but i can't really complain for $2 lol. it's galaga and galaga good
i dont know what basement dwellers fancode this is but its not worth it even for its 50% price
I had to turn off v-sync with NVIDIA control panel for the game to perform smoother, but past that it's a good arcade port with a surprising amount of options + a leaderboard. I hope they create an official way to play Galaga '88, for that's the best one. Until then, hoisten the sails.
Just one more quarter while I'm waiting on my pizza.
greatest game made
It's OK. Not good, not bad, but OK. The controls are done through the keyboard which feels a bit clunky. If it will allow a game controller, I have yet to see it in any of the settings. I'm not extremely impressed with it, but I'm not heinously disappointed either. I would say it's worth $2.00 if you catch it on a Steam sale. If it could be played with a controller, I would be absolutely tickled ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ about it. It's still a fun little nostalgia trip. Catch it on sale and enjoy.
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