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Alpha Runner
Alpha Runner is a challenging endless platform game, Make your way through different obstacles and mini games that get more difficult the further you get. Show off to your friends by getting the highest score on the leaderboard. Or even play with them and see who can survive the longest.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via SteamSpy as of 2026-05-13.
“Alpha Runner is a no-frills arcade platformer that embraces the core philosophy of endless runners: simple to understand, difficult to master, and built around the pursuit of improvement through repetition. Developed and published by LightsoutGames, it strips the genre down to…”
— a player, Steam review · 11 hrs played“Jumping on procedually created platforms that also disappear if you ain't fast enough. Dots that create new platform are so close to lethal spikes that game is precision platforming. Dying seems to be objective of the game considering several achievements are about how many…”
— a player, Steam review · 3 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live count fetched 2026-08-02 20:31 UTC · history via SteamCharts.
Latest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
Alpha runner 2
Hi everyone, Alpha runner 2 is coming out on steam Oktober first, if you enjoyed Alpha Runner 1, check out the sequel as it has alot of new minigames and gamemodes that have been suggested by you! Wis
Beta Runner
Hello Everyone, Some weeks ago we have released our other runner game called Beta Runner, it is on steam right now. So if you are enjoying Alpha Runner check out Beta Runner! http://store.steampowered
Beta Runner
Hello Everyone, Some weeks ago we have released our other runner game called Beta Runner, it is on steam right now. So if you are enjoying Alpha Runner check out Beta Runner! http://store.steampowered
Alpha Fighters
http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/98349963206252185/79778AE23EA5007219A3906CAFCB7B06517B5A70/ Hello everyone! We just launched the greenlight of our next game called alpha fighters! Please
Alpha Fighters
http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/98349963206252185/79778AE23EA5007219A3906CAFCB7B06517B5A70/ Hello everyone! We just launched the greenlight of our next game called alpha fighters! Please
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-12.
| Genres | Adventure, Casual, Indie |
| Player tags | Indie · Casual · Adventure · Platformer · Runner (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Steam Trading Cards · Partial Controller Support · Stats · Steam Leaderboards · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English |
| Achievements | 20 |
| Estimated owners | 200,000 – 500,000 (SteamSpy) |
| Official site | http://www.lightsoutgames.com |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS *: Microsoft® Windows® XP / Vista / 7 Processor: 1.2GHz processor Memory: 512 MB RAM Graphics: DirectX 8-compatible graphics card with at least 32MB of video memory Storage: 150 MB available space