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Chicken Invaders Universe
A deliciously addictive core of finger-blistering shooting action, surrounded by delectable morsels of galactic exploration, spacecraft customization, and community competitions.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-02 · quoted reviews as of 2026-05-13.
What reviewers agree on
31 of the 69 reviews raise this.
4 of the 69 reviews raise this.
“gane itself beside being one big cashgrab is a pretty decent shoot m up. it is also very difficult, but somehow rhe game feels fair. The problem is that there are right now 5 DLC packs that cost between 3,99 and 5,99.…”
“Nostalgic and fun game that brings back great memories. The classic gameplay is still enjoyable, but the game can be quite challenging at times.Overall, it’s a charming arcade shooter worth playing, especially for…”
4 of the 69 reviews raise this.
“So much memories. I love how big it is and so much to do.”
3 of the 69 reviews raise this.
4 of the 69 reviews raise this.
“Even this got turned into an MMO freemium piece of garbage. The UI is terrible, the whole navigation system is poorly put together and just annoying in general. How you can manage to ♥♥♥♥ up Chicken Invaders, I don't…”
“gane itself beside being one big cashgrab is a pretty decent shoot m up. it is also very difficult, but somehow rhe game feels fair. The problem is that there are right now 5 DLC packs that cost between 3,99 and 5,99.…”
3 of the 69 reviews raise this · 1 of them still recommend the game.
“Even this got turned into an MMO freemium piece of garbage. The UI is terrible, the whole navigation system is poorly put together and just annoying in general. How you can manage to ♥♥♥♥ up Chicken Invaders, I don't…”
“thw way you move between missions need to change i cant be ♥♥♥♥♥♥ mouse scorlling and trying to find another star system and then wait to fly there wtf? give me a list option”
3 of the 69 reviews raise this · 1 of them still recommend the game.
“Even this got turned into an MMO freemium piece of garbage. The UI is terrible, the whole navigation system is poorly put together and just annoying in general. How you can manage to ♥♥♥♥ up Chicken Invaders, I don't…”
“In this franchise, the only really good one was the third one; honestly, the others are either too exaggerated or lost their originality.”
Counted across 69 English reviews, sampled to match this game's 91.2% positive rating · as of 2026-05-13
“I remember when I was 4 and my dad was playing this series on his Windows XP computer. I think it was The Next Wave. Good times and pure nostalgia for sure.”
— a player, Steam review · 9 hrs played“Best game ever. A master Piece that when i was 11 or 12 i used to play it a lot on my Lenovo Tablet and i had fun. First time that i understood that we have this game on PC with All the versions and DLCs It brought back memories i had 10 years ago.”
— a player, Steam review · 6 hrs played“Good old classical Chicken Invader game I used to play this game when I was a kid it was fun back than and it is still fun now. I am actually happy and stoaked that I lived long enough to be able to play it again lmfao I thought it was forever unlisted and I will never be able…”
— a player, Steam review · 4 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live data self-collected from the Steam API · history through 2026-06 via SteamCharts.
Achievement stats
Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-09-05.
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.
Latest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
Game version 159
This is a minor maintenance release. Several changes are related to enhanced keyboard/gamepad navigation. More information about this update can be found here: https://forum.chickeninvaders.com/t/ciu-
Game version 158
A lot of wave tweaks (again). More information about this update can be found here: https://forum.chickeninvaders.com/t/ciu-version-158/38238
Game version 157
A lot of wave tweaks. Also, added Accessibility settings ("Screen shakes", "Screen flashes", "Starfield scrolling") in Options -> Gameplay . Due to this change, all your Options settings will regretta
Game version 156
A lot of wave tweaks. Important: Slob behaviour has changed in this version. Slobs will now speed up towards the edges of the screen to avoid falling too far behind and disappearing while they are sti
Emergency update 155.5
This fixes a bug with Slob chickens which was introduced in v155.4 yesterday.
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-13.
| Genres | Action, Casual, Indie, Massively Multiplayer, Free To Play |
| Player tags | Shooter · Shoot 'Em Up · Top-Down Shooter · Action · Family Friendly · Old School · Casual · Space · Arcade · 2D · Parody · Cartoony (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Multi-player · MMO · Co-op · Online Co-op · Full controller support · In-App Purchases · Steam Cloud |
| Languages | English, French, Italian, Spanish - Spain, Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Greek, Hungarian, Korean, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Romanian, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Hebrew, Serbian, Slovak |
| Controller | Full support |
| Achievements | 38 |
| Official site | https://chickeninvaders.com |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS *: Windows 7/8/8.1/10/11 Memory: 1 GB RAM DirectX: Version 11 Network: Broadband Internet connection Storage: 700 MB available space