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AdvertCity cover art

AdvertCity

VoxelStorm · 2015-06-05

Steam

IndieSimulationStrategy

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Virtual Reality

Releases: Jun 05, 2015 (Linux), Jun 05, 2015 (Mac), Apr 17, 2015 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

A cyberpunk advertising tycoon game. Explore a massive procedural city, and plaster your adverts all over it. Float around cyberspace and post links online. Watch the economy of the city evolve with the effects of your decisions.

53%
positive of 92 reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
40/100
IGDB user rating (1 ratings)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$4.99
steam price (US)
AdvertCity is a business simulation video game developed and published by VoxelStorm. The game was released on 17 April 2015 for Microsoft Windows, Linux, OS X. The player takes on the role of an advertising magnate in a dystopian future city with a cyberpunk aesthetic.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 10 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity up 43% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 49% of 30,567 Indie games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 2.3k–5.5k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 92 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $1.19 at Steam (2022-11-22) · bundled 2×via IsThereAnyDeal

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
3320152026Week of 2015-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2015-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2015-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2016-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2016-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2016-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Attention

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Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam Trading CardsVR SupportPartial Controller SupportSteam CloudRemote Play on TabletFamily Sharing1 DLC

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2015-06-03 (Steam store data)

Player tags

NoirIndieStrategyCyberpunkDystopian ManagementSimulationCity BuilderPost-apocalypticResource Management

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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