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Ballistic Overkill

Ballistic Overkill

Pick a class, choose your gun, and dive right in, Ballistic Overkill has no barrier between you and immediate run and gun action. Designed from the outset to be 'pick up and play', Ballistic Overkill is for you regardless of your level of FPS experience.

Released Mar 28, 2017 Developer Aquiris Game Studio Platforms Windows · Mac · Linux FPSShooterActionMultiplayerFirst-Person
View on Steam ↗ Free (US · as of 2026-08-12)

What players say

Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-26 · quoted reviews as of 2026-10-15.

75.8%positive7,018 reviews
Recommended · 64 found this helpful

“Ballistic Overkill was an Online Browser Game a few years ago! To be honest it was one of my favourite back then along with Contract Wars. The downloadable steam version is almost the same as the game I played years ago! + Lot of class with different weapons + Cheap and openable…”

— a player, Steam review · 51 hrs played
Recommended · 54 found this helpful

“Pros: Smooth gameplay Fun Decent player size No microtransactions Nice maps Beautiful visuals Decent amount of weapons, customization nice sound quality fast pace Classes are balanced Great UI/Interface (Clean and Simple) Nice Community Official Discord where you can communicate…”

— a player, Steam review · 19 hrs played
Not recommended · 359 found this helpful

“So I've never written one of these before, but I feel that a warning for prospective buyers is in order. I've played this game a lot as you can see, since (very) early access. Clearly I liked it in the past, but now I'm not so sure. Why? There is very little, if any, testing of…”

— a player, Steam review · 748 hrs played
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Player activity

Monthly average concurrent players. Live data self-collected from the Steam API · history through 2025-12 via SteamCharts.

1,079all-time peak
0 250 500 2016 2018 2020 2022 2024 2026 No data collected for this period No data collected for this period No data collected for this period No data collected for this period 274 avg · Apr 2017

Achievement stats

Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-10-21.

37achievements
6.7%median completion
2.7%rarest: Rehab
50.9% of players 44.4% of players 42.8% of players 39.9% of players 29.8% of players 28.4% of players 24.1% of players 20.3% of players 19.4% of players 17.7% of players 17.4% of players 17.0% of players 14.4% of players 11.1% of players 9.9% of players 9.3% of players 8.5% of players 7.3% of players 6.7% of players 6.3% of players 5.9% of players 5.5% of players 5.4% of players 5.2% of players 5.1% of players 4.9% of players 4.4% of players 4.2% of players 3.1% of players 3.1% of players 3.1% of players 3.0% of players 2.9% of players 2.9% of players 2.8% of players 2.7% of players 2.7% of players 50.9% 0% most earned rarest
Almost everyone has
50.9%On Point — Hidden achievement
44.4%No Microtransactions — Drop your first Lockbox
42.8%Teamplay — Get 30 kill assists
Rarest badges of honor
2.7%Rehab — Hidden achievement
2.7%Infinite Learning — Hidden achievement
2.8%Appreciator of Art — Hidden achievement

Price tracking

US-region pricing (USD), sampled twice daily by our own tracker since 2026-07-11. Steam prices vary by region — always confirm your local price on Steam.

Freecurrent · sampled 2026-08-12 07:53 UTC
Freelowest since tracking began2026-07-11

Latest official news

Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.

Feb 06, 2023
Ballistic Overkill will be delisted on February 13th

Hello, Ballistic veteran, It's been three years since we suspended support for Ballistic Overkill, shutting down the official servers and suspending any official operation for the game, only keeping t

Jan 28, 2020
Update 1.5.6

Hi Soldiers, As announced on December 4, today the Official Servers were shut down. While you can still keep playing in private servers, this means all the Leaderboards, Missions and all achievements

Dec 04, 2019
An important announcement.

Ballistic was born around 8 years ago. Aquiris was a young development studio and wanted to deliver an arcade arena shooter suited for all FPS lovers, as we were and continue to be. We foresaw a real

Jan 21, 2019
Game Maintenance

Hey guys, as you may know, the game is having issues with the leaderboards, items and other instabilities. We're working on to fix this issue as soon as possible. This happened due to some issues with

Dec 12, 2018
1.5.4 - Juggernaut Mode, performance improvements and new skins

https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/8484085/1cc1586158f0c182c826c82a431d5ed600368c75.jpg Hi, soldiers! The Juggernaut update is here and comes with a new game mode we’ve

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Screenshots

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Facts & details

From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-13.

GenresAction, Casual, Indie
Player tagsFPS · Shooter · Action · Multiplayer · First-Person · Casual · Early Access · Indie · Massively Multiplayer · PvP · Fast-Paced · Funny (SteamSpy community voting)
FeaturesMulti-player · PvP · Online PvP · Cross-Platform Multiplayer · Steam Achievements · Steam Trading Cards · Steam Cloud · Valve Anti-Cheat enabled
LanguagesEnglish * , Portuguese - Portugal, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Portuguese - Brazil, Simplified Chinese, Swedish, Turkish, Russian, Traditional Chinese, Polish, Hungarian *
Achievements37
Minimum system requirements (PC)

Minimum: OS *: Windows 7 or newer Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo 2.0 GHz or better Memory: 2 GB RAM Graphics: Intel HD Graphics 4000 or better DirectX: Version 9.0c Network: Broadband Internet connection Storage: 4 GB available space