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Anomalous
A SHORT and sweet pixelated low fidelity 90s throwback hyper-fast action shooter. Survive and fight through a city overrun with manufactured monstrosities, biomass horrors, and a military authority trying to purge everything living. Heavy metal / techno soundtrack featuring BOD Music
View on Steam ↗ $8.99 (US · as of 2026-05-18)What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-26.
“This game is so good! The way the industrial synthwave music blends with the fast-paced movement, traversal, and action is fantastic. The game has a really good flow that is sometimes hindered by maze-like level design, but thankfully, it never gets as bad as Doom 1 or 2 in that…”
— a player, Steam review · 5 hrs played“It was a janky, awkward death fest with boring environments and an unfulfilling finish. There was a recent update which didn't help matters; it's given the enemies a gloss of paint, but there's just nothing here that felt worth exploring. I ended up just running through the…”
— a player, Steam review · 3 hrs played“Controller support is below bare minimum, cannot use the controller to navigate menus, cannot dual wield weapons on controller as there is no button for equipping the 2nd and there is no autoaim so shooting fliers is a needless struggle. There is no remote saves so if you…”
— a player, Steam review · 1 hrs playedLatest official news
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Anomalous 1.5
Its been a long road. There is still more to come but here is the first major update to the game. Think of it as Anomalous 1.5 , I took a long while to decide what to do with the game and after not lo
V1.1 Minor Patch
Just a small update to fix some concerns that were raised in the forums! Weapon tracer lines are a lot more subtle and include a taper-off effect Mission 12 - The elevator after defeating Walker has b
Cloud saving enabled!
Silly me, I thought cloud saving would get magically added to the game by default. Anyway, now it has been added please let me know if you encounter any issues with it!
Anomalous V1.0 Release
Anomalous is finally out of Early Access! V.1.00 features overhauled maps for missions 5 -10, new end-game boss , AI and character updates as well as an awesome batch of new music created by BOD music
Progress Report
Hey everybody! The last few months has seen quite a bit of progress on Anomalous however its been slow! A balance of IRL and game dev as usual I'm currently rounding off the last set of levels to be w
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-09-26.
| Genres | Action, Indie |
| Player tags | Action · FPS · Shooter · Horror · Stylized · Old School · Combat · Retro · Indie · Singleplayer · First-Person · Gore (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Full controller support · DualShock Controller Support · DualShock Controller Support · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English * * |
| Controller | Full support |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS: Windows 10 64 bit Processor: Intel Core i5-4590 (3.70 GHz) or better Memory: 8 GB RAM Graphics: NVIDIA Geforce GTX 1050 Storage: 3 GB available space