Intake
Released Nov 2013
Intake is the new retro-futuristic drugstep arcade shooter from Cipher Prime. In this polychromatic love child of Dr. Mario and Ikaruga, you battle a never-ending barrage of pills, pushing your skill and reflexes to the limit to avoid a lethal dosage.
91% positive · 396 reviews
Done
All announced content has been released
High confidence
Done
All announced content has been released
High confidence
Where to buy
Steam $3.99 $9.99 −60%
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Evaluation
Intake launched on November 6, 2013 as a complete arcade shooter. The developer posted a handful of bug-fix patches in the days immediately following launch, then shipped one meaningful update — the MAYDAY Update on May 1, 2014 — which added gameplay features and coincided with an iOS release. A small follow-up patch arrived on June 12, 2014. After that, all developer communication ceased entirely. No roadmap, no announced DLC, no future content of any kind has ever been communicated. The store description presents the game as a finished product with a defined feature set, and no unreleased DLC exists in the store listing. With the last developer activity dating back to June 12, 2014, and no outstanding commitments ever made, the game was effectively complete from launch and has been a finished product for over a decade.
Evidence
MAYDAY Update shipped with gameplay revamps, new features, and performance fixes, coinciding with an iOS release. The last major content addition to the game.
Small patch adjusting level progression and fixing a bug. The final developer communication on record.
Media
Details
Developer
Publisher
Cipher Prime Studios
Achievements
77
Platform
Windows
Controller
—
Steam Deck
Playable
Players
Single-player
About this game
Intake is the new retro-futuristic drugstep arcade shooter from Cipher Prime. In this polychromatic love child of Dr. Mario and Ikaruga, you battle a never-ending barrage of pills, pushing your skill and reflexes to the limit to avoid a lethal dosage. Blast and combo your way through an epic cascade of audiovisual mayhem so intoxicating it comes with its own warning label.
FEATURES
- Classic Arcade Shooter: From its aspect ratio to its fast-paced game play, Intake is directly inspired by classic arcade shooters and SHMUPs with just a hint of FPS love.
- Achievements: Over 70 finely tuned achievements that will teach even the most hardcore player new tricks. These are not your typical progress-only achievements.
- High Scoreboard and Game Stats: Keep track of your high scores and decimate your friends.
- Challenge Modes: Acceleration, Minefield, Reaction, and Flood modes will challenge every aspect of how you play.
- Gameplay Changing Features: Grab vitamins while you play and trade them in for intense game upgrades. You can even turn the game into a SHMUP if you show your skills.
- Dubstep Soundtrack: Infinite wubs. Classy ones.
- Colorblind Modes: Intake offers colorblind modes for players with deuteranopia, protanopia, and tritanopia.
- Full Steam Support
Are these done yet?
Last evaluated Jun 28, 2026
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