Genre City BuilderReleased Oct 17, 2018

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Developed and published by Ludeon Studios
Estimated lifetime revenue
$56.99M
Gross, before Steam's cut
Net revenue
$42.59M
After Steam's 25% cut
Units sold
3.52M
≈ 14 sales per review
Confidence
High
Based on 248,032 reviews
How we estimate →
Reviews
248,032
Overwhelmingly Positive98% positive
Playing now
28,760
11-day peak 33,548 · low 21,842
New reviews, last 11 days
+773
≈ 70 a day since Oct 3

History

Oct 3 – Oct 14

248.1K247.8K247.5K247.2K
Oct 3Oct 8Oct 14

Total Steam reviews. The slope is the signal: a steady climb long after launch means the game is still selling.

How it compares

Strategy →

Against the 120 most-reviewed Strategy games on Steam

Outearns 84% of them — in the top quarter of the group.

Median
$15.59M
114,721 reviews
Top 10% start at
$67.69M
This game
$56.99M
81st pct. by reviews

The group is the games with the most reviews under this tag, not every release, so it leans toward games that sold — a percentile here is a harder test than the same percentile across the whole store would be.

About

A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Generates stories by simulating psychology, ecology, gunplay, melee combat, climate, biomes, diplomacy, interpersonal relationships, art, medicine, trade, and more.

Developer
Ludeon Studios
Publisher
Ludeon Studios
Genre
City Builder
Released
Oct 17, 2018
Steam app ID
294100
Data updated
Oct 14, 2026
Estimates, not reported sales. No developer-published figures are on file for this game. See the methodology for how the numbers are built.