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Creeper World IXE
The unstoppable alien force known as The Creeper has returned, devouring thousands of worlds in its path, and yours is next. Battle against the Creeper fluid in a groundbreaking pixel-level simulation to prove that humanity will rule the galaxy forever!
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Data as of 2026-05-20.
“Fun little game, don't expect super deep gameplay or massive battles. It is more a puzzle game with action, where you need to work out the correct paths to attack the enemy from. This is a departure from the previous games, where it was more of a resource management RTS, but…”
— a player, Steam review · 59 hrs played“TL;DR: Not a bad game. It mostly just made me want to replay Creeper World 3 or 4, which are much much better. Gameplay: [list] [*]I actually enjoyed my time playing IXE, because I enjoy watching missiles flying into blue goop and making big pressure waves that then get blasted…”
— a player, Steam review · 13 hrs played“ive played a *lot* of creeper world games, and this just aint it, like, at all, that tower defense aspect you know and love? slowly building out your defenses, fighting the waves back and taking out those cores? *gone*, like, *completely,* you still take out the cores, sure, but…”
— a player, Steam review · 2 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live count fetched 2026-07-24 01:24 UTC · history 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 2026-07-25.
Price tracking
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Latest official news
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Unity Patch
Just a minor update to patch the unity dll to bring it in line with their latest secure update.
IXE Version 59
- Fixed issue that prevented spirit ships from being in inventory when choosing max ships in the map generator. - Changed GetCreeperOnLine to return when it finds the first creeper on the line. - Chan
Version 52
- Reset manuallyEnteredEditMode on finalization to prevent console opening from triggering edit mode on a finalized map. - Cleanup up and slight performance increase in creeper sim.
Version 51
- Fixed bug in EmitCreeper. It was reading the current creeper value incorrectly, so it could pick up a value from the wrong map location. - Set 'manuallyEnteredEditMode' when opening console.
Version 50
- Changed SetCameraZoom RPL api to properly set the zoom so other UI elements know the new value. - Added Get/SetFCCell api (to get/set individual field container cells). - Added a button to script co
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-20.
| Genres | Action, Casual, Indie, Simulation, Strategy |
| Player tags | RTS · Tower Defense · Wargame · Real Time Tactics · Sandbox · Space · 1980s · War · Physics · Strategy · Tutorial · Grand Strategy (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Steam Cloud · Stats · Includes level editor · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English * * |
| Achievements | 28 |
| Estimated owners | 50,000 – 100,000 (SteamSpy) |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS: Windows 10 or later Processor: Quad Core 2.5Ghz Memory: 6 GB RAM Graphics: Dedicated GPU DirectX: Version 11 Storage: 2 GB available space