EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 4.1 The Shadow of New Despair overview

Overview

EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 4.1 The Shadow of New Despair comes from SANDLOT and is published by D3PUBLISHER. It arrived on Steam on Jul 18, 2016, and it sits naturally among Single-player, Multi-player, Co-op, Shared/Split Screen, Steam Achievements, Full controller support, Steam Trading Cards, and Steam Cloud. SteamPulse tracks it across Windows, Steam, and PlayStation so readers get a quick useful snapshot, not just a wall of numbers.

Players and reviews

EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 4.1 The Shadow of New Despair's latest SteamPulse observation recorded 164 players at 4 October 2026 - 09:57:14 UTC, with a tracked peak near 5,931. This peak is the highest value in the available SteamPulse record and may not include activity before tracking began. Player reaction is 95% positive across 10,402 reviews.

Language and system requirements

EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 4.1 The Shadow of New Despair is available in 2 languages including:

15 regional rating boards including cero, esrb, pegi, bbfc, and usk

Sales, recommendations, and streams

EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 4.1 The Shadow of New Despair has sold up to 470,000 units and has 7,790 Steam recommendations. The estimated VGI revenue is $10,500,000. On Twitch, 0 streamers are live with around 0 total watchers.

EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 4.1 The Shadow of New Despair overview details

EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 4.1 The Shadow of New Despair combines live player counts with reviews, pricing, platform support, Store metadata, dated player history, media, recent news, and related games.

Steam Store description

The phenomenon that "Armor value" or "Acquisition of weapons" of save data is tampered when playing online multi play with specific players We deeply apologize for any inconvenience this time. We have got some reports about the title above. We investigated about it and verified the same phenomenon. When we played online multi play with specific players who are called cheaters and tamper their game data, our save data became aberrant by obtaining tampered items after the mission. We will keep investigating about malicious data tampering, but for now, once your save data is tampered, it is impossible to get your data back again. We would appreciate for your understanding. As a workaround for customers, since this phenomenon is caused by playing online play with cheaters and completing missions, if you find any cheaters or players who are suspected as cheaters in the online room, we deeply recommend you to leave the room as soon as possible without launching the mission. In addition, if you find any cheaters or players who are suspected as cheaters during the mission, we also recommend you to leave the mission before you complete it. About the Game It's a fight for the future of the planet between the Ravagers, a merciless swarm of alien invaders, and the Earth Defense Force (EDF) in this third-person shooter. As an EDF soldier you will go head to head in fierce combat against the hordes of giant alien insects and their slaughtering machines. Play as four different classes in over 80 missions with a range of 800 weapons at your disposal. The most overwhelmingly numerous forc…

SteamPulse editorial summary

EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 4.1 The Shadow of New Despair is listed as a game with $8.99 (55% off from $19.99). It supports Windows, belongs to Single-player, Multi-player, Co-op, Shared/Split Screen, Steam Achievements, Full controller support, Steam Trading Cards, and Steam Cloud, and is associated with Action. SteamPulse's latest observation records 164 players at 4 October 2026 - 09:57:14 UTC, a tracked peak of 5,931, and 95% positive reviews.

Overview tags

ActionThird-Person ShooterCo-opOnline Co-OpAliensMechsSci-fiLocal Co-OpAnimeSplit ScreenFunnyMultiplayerShooterRobotsDestruction

Content descriptors

This content include Blood and Gore, Violence, Mild Language

Highlighted achievements

Support and legal notes

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