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1980 cover art

1980

Merxon22 · 2020-08-31

Steam

Free To PlayIndieStrategy

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Side view

Releases: Aug 31, 2020 (Mac), Aug 31, 2020 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Welcome to the 1980s! This is a city which just started to develop, and you're in charge of this small urban village. How will the city's future be tied to this place? Manage your land, construct new buildings, explore the stories, and find out the ultimate fate of this urban village!

0
playing now
89%
positive of 686 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
Free
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-15 09:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 14 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity down 44% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (108 reviews).
  • · Top 14% of 9,706 Free To Play games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-31

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
939320202026Week of 2020-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 93 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 45 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 34 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 35 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 34 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

102026-09-15 19:00 — 0 players2026-09-17 03:00 — 1 players2026-09-18 10:00 — 1 players2026-09-19 18:00 — 0 players2026-09-21 01:00 — 0 players2026-09-22 09:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 17:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 00:00 — 0 players2026-09-26 08:00 — 0 players2026-09-27 15:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 23:00 — 0 players2026-09-30 06:00 — 0 players2026-10-01 14:00 — 1 players2026-10-02 21:00 — 0 players2026-10-04 05:00 — 0 players2026-10-05 13:00 — 1 players2026-10-06 20:00 — 0 players2026-10-08 04:00 — 1 players2026-10-09 11:00 — 1 players2026-10-10 19:00 — 1 players2026-10-12 03:00 — 0 players2026-10-13 10:00 — 1 players2026-10-14 18:00 — 0 players2026-10-15 09:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Details

WindowsmacOSSingle-playerFamily Sharing

2 supported languages: English, Simplified Chinese

Player tags

2D1980sIndieBuildingStrategyHand-drawnManagementCity BuilderFree to PlaySingleplayer

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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