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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.

0
playing now
54%
positive of 770 reviews
Mixed
steam rating
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 2026-08-30 08:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 24% of 9,617 Casual games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 31k–62k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 770 total reviews — how this is computed.

Players online

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Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

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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