The Game Census
Archean cover art

Archean

batcholi · 2024-05-16

Steam

IndieSimulationEarly Access

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative

Releases: May 16, 2024 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), May 16, 2024 (Linux)

Gather resources, craft components, build vehicles, and code their logic in a physics-driven engineering sandbox and full scale space sim.

9
playing now
88%
positive of 248 reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$19.99
steam price (US)

9 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 06:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 47% of 18,161 Indie games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 5.0k–11k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 248 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $9.99 at Steam (2024-12-26)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $19.99 · on sale 7 of 14 observed days (census price snapshots)

Players online

1522026-08-11 20:00 — 9 players2026-08-12 11:00 — 9 players2026-08-13 03:00 — 5 players2026-08-13 19:00 — 12 players2026-08-14 11:00 — 7 players2026-08-15 03:00 — 5 players2026-08-15 18:00 — 11 players2026-08-16 10:00 — 9 players2026-08-17 02:00 — 2 players2026-08-17 18:00 — 8 players2026-08-18 10:00 — 4 players2026-08-19 02:00 — 12 players2026-08-19 17:00 — 13 players2026-08-20 09:00 — 8 players2026-08-21 01:00 — 7 players2026-08-21 17:00 — 15 players2026-08-22 08:00 — 7 players2026-08-23 00:00 — 6 players2026-08-23 16:00 — 9 players2026-08-24 08:00 — 5 players2026-08-25 00:00 — 6 players2026-08-25 15:00 — 5 players2026-08-26 08:00 — 8 players2026-08-27 00:00 — 11 players2026-08-27 14:00 — 7 players2026-08-28 06:00 — 5 players2026-08-28 22:00 — 8 players2026-08-29 14:00 — 8 players2026-08-30 06:00 — 9 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$19.99$9.992024-05-162026-07-092024-05-16 — best price $14.992024-05-30 — best price $19.992024-06-27 — best price $15.992024-07-11 — best price $19.992024-07-23 — best price $15.992024-07-29 — best price $19.992024-09-02 — best price $15.992024-09-09 — best price $19.992024-10-14 — best price $15.992024-10-21 — best price $19.992024-11-27 — best price $15.992024-12-04 — best price $19.992024-12-19 — best price $15.992024-12-26 — best price $9.992025-01-02 — best price $19.992025-01-23 — best price $14.992025-02-03 — best price $19.992025-03-13 — best price $15.992025-03-20 — best price $19.992025-04-19 — best price $15.992025-04-27 — best price $19.992025-06-27 — best price $15.992025-07-10 — best price $19.992025-08-15 — best price $9.992025-08-24 — best price $19.992025-09-29 — best price $9.992025-10-06 — best price $19.992025-11-15 — best price $13.992025-11-23 — best price $19.992025-12-18 — best price $9.992026-01-05 — best price $19.992026-02-01 — best price $13.992026-02-08 — best price $19.992026-03-19 — best price $9.992026-03-26 — best price $19.992026-05-15 — best price $13.992026-05-22 — best price $19.992026-06-25 — best price $9.992026-07-09 — best price $19.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsLinuxSingle-playerMulti-playerCo-opOnline Co-opCross-Platform MultiplayerSteam WorkshopPartial Controller SupportSteam CloudFamily Sharing

5 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain

Player tags

SpacePhysicsSandboxScienceBuildingCraftingRealisticSpace SimOpen WorldSimulation

Census log

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

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