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Environmental Station Alpha
Explore an abandoned space station in this retro-themed explorative action platformer.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Data as of 2026-05-20.
“I'm going to start the review with a "spoiler" and I don't care, you just need to know this: Environmental Station Alpha has probably the best hookshot implementation of all time. The game would already be a must play just because of that but no, the creator also decided to…”
— a player, Steam review · 29 hrs played“[h1]Spectacular hidden gem[/h1][b]E[/b]environmental [b]S[/b]tation [b]A[/b]lpha kept surprising me with how well designed it is. The whole experience in one word could be described as [b] 'dense' [/b]. [h3] [b]ESA[/b] has two levels.[/h3] On the surface it's your…”
— a player, Steam review · 26 hrs played“I give Environmental Station Alpha a lukewarm thumbs-up. If you like difficult metroidvania games, then you may like this one. The game starts off simple. You have a character who can walk, jump, and shoot a short laser to all four cardinal directions. While the enemies aren't…”
— a player, Steam review · 8 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live count fetched 2026-07-24 00:03 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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Version 1.C3
- Fixed the speedrun achievement being attainable just by watching the credits from the main menu (whoops) - Fixed a bossfight incorrectly granting you a powerup if you didn't have it yet - Hopefully
Environmental Station Alpha C++ port is out!
Hi everyone! As I mentioned earlier this year, we have been working on a new version of the game with the intent of fixing various problems that have plagued the game for years now, including the game
FLAC soundtrack added back
As the title says, the full OST should now be available once more. Apologies for the trouble.
ESA Soundtrack is working again
The soundtrack for Environmental Station Alpha has been nonfunctional for some time now without me realizing. The reason for this was that the OST was implemented back before Steam had a dedicated sou
We're working on fixing the issues with the game
ESA has currently some issues with crashing on Win11 platforms, and as announced previously, the MacOS version doesn't run at all. We're working on addressing these issues by porting the game to a new
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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, Adventure, Indie |
| Player tags | Metroidvania · Pixel Graphics · Adventure · Indie · Platformer · Action · Great Soundtrack · Difficult · Retro · 2D · Exploration · Atmospheric (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Full controller support · Steam Trading Cards · Steam Cloud · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English |
| Controller | Full support |
| Achievements | 34 |
| Estimated owners | 100,000 – 200,000 (SteamSpy) |
| Official site | http://www.hempuli.com/esa/ |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS *: Windows 7 Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i3 CPU Memory: 512 MB RAM Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 310M DirectX: Version 9.0 Storage: 30 MB available space Sound Card: Realtek High Definition Audio Additional Notes: May vary from computer to computer