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Chicken Invaders 1
Save Earth from an invasion of intergalactic chickens! Finger-blistering arcade shooting action for one or two players.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-26.
“The definitive and best way to play the 1999 classic Chicken Invaders that started this glorious saga. It contains: - the original 1999 game that doesn't work correctly on modern systems, but it's good that it's included. - the 2023 remake of the original which is the 1999 code…”
— a player, Steam review · 1 hrs played“greatest game known to man (better than most AAA games)”
— a player, Steam review · 6 hrs played“Epic”
— a player, Steam review · 0 hrs playedAchievement stats
Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-09-26.
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Episode 1 v.25
Minor maintenance release. More information about this update can be found here: https://forum.chickeninvaders.com/t/episodes-v-25/38836
Episode version 24
Two main changes in this update: Accessibility settings (no shakes, no flashes, no scrolling) in Options → Gameplay. “Cheat” unlockables (infinite lives, infinite missiles, infinite weapon power). Not
v.23 update
This is a minor maintenance release. Changelog: https://forum.chickeninvaders.com/t/ciu-version-155/36721
Episode version 22
This is a minor maintenance update. Changelog here: https://forum.chickeninvaders.com/t/ciu-version-154/36248
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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, Casual, Indie |
| Player tags | Action · Casual · Arcade · Shooter · Shoot 'Em Up · Top-Down Shooter · 2D · Cartoony · Colorful · Top-Down · Indie · 1980s (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Multi-player · Co-op · Shared/Split Screen Co-op · Shared/Split Screen · Steam Achievements · Partial Controller Support · Steam Cloud |
| Languages | English, French, Italian, Spanish - Spain, Arabic, Greek, Hungarian, Korean, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Hebrew, Persian, Slovak |
| Achievements | 20 |
| Official site | https://www.interactionstudios.com |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS *: Windows 7/8/8.1/10/11 Processor: 1GHz Memory: 1 GB RAM DirectX: Version 11 Storage: 700 MB available space