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7 Grand Steps: What Ancients Begat

Mousechief · 2013-06-07

Steam

CasualIndieSimulationStrategy

Modes: Single player

Releases: May 05, 2013 (Mac), May 05, 2013 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

What Ancients Begat is a complete (~15 hour) game of family generations surviving the rise of western civilization. Survival is the ultimate goal. The sub-goals, you choose, build their story.Experience an abstract telling of the lives of our earliest recorded ancestors.

7 Grand Steps: What Ancients Begat is a Casual, Indie, Simulation and Strategy game released in 2013, priced at $19.99, with an estimated 50,000 to 100,000 owners and a Mixed review sentiment (54% of 771 reviews).

0
playing now
54%
positive of 771 reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
40/100
critic score (1 outlets, IGDB)
40/100
IGDB user rating (6 ratings)
5h
time to beat (IGDB)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$19.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 18:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 3 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~0/week).
  • · Review velocity up 0% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 10% of 29,098 Casual games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-31

Estimated sales: 31k–62k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 771 total reviews — how this is computed.

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
4420162026Week of 2016-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2016-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2016-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2016-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2017-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

202026-09-15 03:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 11:00 — 1 players2026-09-17 19:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 02:00 — 1 players2026-09-20 10:00 — 0 players2026-09-21 17:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 01:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 08:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 16:00 — 0 players2026-09-26 23:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 07:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 14:00 — 0 players2026-09-30 22:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 05:00 — 1 players2026-10-03 13:00 — 1 players2026-10-04 21:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 05:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 12:00 — 1 players2026-10-08 20:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 03:00 — 1 players2026-10-11 11:00 — 1 players2026-10-12 18:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 02:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 18:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
1111Jun 2013Feb 2026Jun 2013 — avg 111 · peak 496Sep 2013 — avg 7 · peak 19Dec 2013 — avg 10 · peak 140Mar 2014 — avg 9 · peak 38Jun 2014 — avg 7 · peak 24Sep 2014 — avg 3 · peak 17Dec 2014 — avg 4 · peak 14Mar 2015 — avg 3 · peak 10Jun 2015 — avg 16 · peak 158Sep 2015 — avg 4 · peak 12Dec 2015 — avg 3 · peak 11Mar 2016 — avg 2 · peak 7Jun 2016 — avg 2 · peak 8Sep 2016 — avg 1 · peak 9Dec 2016 — avg 1 · peak 5Mar 2017 — avg 9 · peak 22Jun 2017 — avg 4 · peak 12Sep 2017 — avg 2 · peak 7Dec 2017 — avg 2 · peak 7Mar 2018 — avg 1 · peak 7Jun 2018 — avg 1 · peak 7Sep 2018 — avg 1 · peak 6Dec 2018 — avg 1 · peak 7Mar 2019 — avg 1 · peak 6Jun 2019 — avg 1 · peak 4Sep 2019 — avg 1 · peak 5Dec 2019 — avg 2 · peak 6Mar 2020 — avg 2 · peak 6Jun 2020 — avg 1 · peak 5Sep 2020 — avg 1 · peak 4Dec 2020 — avg 1 · peak 4May 2021 — avg 1 · peak 4Dec 2021 — avg 1 · peak 3Apr 2022 — avg 1 · peak 4Jun 2023 — avg 1 · peak 4Feb 2026 — avg 1 · peak 4

No change (0) in avg players vs prior month — Feb 2026

Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$19.99$3.742015-01-012021-02-152015-01-01 — best price $6.592015-04-27 — best price $11.992015-06-11 — best price $6.592015-07-10 — best price $14.992015-11-23 — best price $19.992015-12-01 — best price $19.992015-12-18 — best price $3.742016-01-04 — best price $3.742016-01-18 — best price $9.992016-02-05 — best price $9.992016-02-23 — best price $3.742016-03-25 — best price $3.742016-04-04 — best price $14.992016-05-03 — best price $14.992016-07-04 — best price $19.992016-09-26 — best price $19.992016-11-29 — best price $19.992016-12-12 — best price $19.992017-01-02 — best price $19.992017-06-19 — best price $19.992017-07-05 — best price $19.992017-09-05 — best price $14.992017-11-28 — best price $19.992018-01-04 — best price $19.992018-02-19 — best price $19.992018-07-05 — best price $19.992018-08-06 — best price $19.992018-11-01 — best price $19.992018-11-27 — best price $19.992018-12-10 — best price $19.992019-01-04 — best price $19.992019-02-11 — best price $19.992019-07-09 — best price $19.992019-08-05 — best price $19.992020-01-02 — best price $19.992020-07-09 — best price $19.992020-11-02 — best price $19.992020-12-01 — best price $19.992021-01-05 — best price $19.992021-02-15 — best price $19.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsmacOSSingle-playerSteam Trading CardsFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Player tags

IndieCasualPuzzleAbstractLife SimAdventureBoard GameHistoricalSimulationStory Rich

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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