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Protolife
Protolife is an unique tower-based strategy game which gives you a direct control over the builder robot in a struggle against the hungry proto-life organism.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via SteamSpy as of 2026-05-13.
“Very fun and surprsingly intricate. Very nice blend of tower defense with a little action: while no level requires it too much you can always go faster and try to win even the timed missions early with some surprisingly intense active play.”
— a player, Steam review · 16 hrs played“This has a similar feel to Creeper World.. If the creeper was actually as menacing as it's said to be. Like the infection does *not* know the word chill. Jokes aside, it's a solid little game. Here's for the pro and cons : + Simple to pick up gameplay loop + Very unique style,…”
— a player, Steam review · 7 hrs played“This is basically "Dead or Night" map from Starcraft 2 in standalone game but with only tower rush by playing as armored 'Probe', A perfect mixture of Tower Defense with RTS element which hard to see these days. The way to setup desired turret or various fortification is pretty…”
— a player, Steam review · 41 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live count fetched 2026-08-02 20:24 UTC · history via SteamCharts.
Latest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
Protolife 1.2.4 -- Steam Deck Support
Hello everyone! Protolife is now playable on Steam Deck. There was a pending NW.js/Proton compatibility issue which is finally resolved. We tested the full playthrough on Steam Deck, everything should
Hexworld: Major Update
Hello, Protolife fans, everybody who kept our feed enabled through all these years! It's good to be in touch with you again -- we have some news for you. Hexworld 0.16 is now stable, and it's the last
Protolife: Other Side
We're glad to announce our new keyboard-controlled arcade game called Protolife: Other Side. Lead alien worms through familiar defense towers and help them evacuate from occupied colonized planet Leo-
New keyboard-controlled strategy is coming!
Ok, this time we actually have integral mouse support! Volcanic Giraffe is still alive and we are still making games. There have been some dead ends, unfinished prototypes and life struggles, but righ
Protolife 1.2.2
This is a minor patch with the following game crash fixes: Level 'Convoy' blocker - Uncaught TypeError: Cannot use 'in' operator to search for 'spawn-rate-percent' in 5 (thanks to juan ignacio) Custom
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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 | Indie, Strategy |
| Player tags | Tower Defense · Pixel Graphics · RTS · Base-Building · Strategy · Sci-fi · Indie · Singleplayer · Aliens · Top-Down · Retro · Atmospheric (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Full controller support · Steam Trading Cards · Steam Workshop · Includes level editor · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English, Russian |
| Controller | Full support |
| Achievements | 29 |
| Estimated owners | 50,000 – 100,000 (SteamSpy) |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS *: Windows 7 or later Processor: 2.7 GHz Memory: 2 GB RAM Graphics: OpenGL 2.0 support, 256 MB VRAM Storage: 500 MB available space Additional Notes: Minimum resolution: 1280 x 720