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Arctic Motel Simulator

One Slice of Pizza Games · 2025-02-11

Steam

Simulation

Modes: Single player

Releases: Feb 11, 2025 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Have you ever been to the Arctic? Do you want to open a motel in the Arctic? With the company of aurora, blizzards, polar days and nights, primeval forests, and wild animals, can you turn a run-down motel into a landmark in the Arctic?

27
playing now
88%
positive of 468 reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$8.99
steam price (US)

27 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 12:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 27 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 11 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 15% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (172 reviews).
  • · Top 45% of 6,674 Simulation games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 9.4k–21k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 468 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

lowest across shops (ITAD)$8.99-50%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $8.99 at Steam (2026-05-27)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $17.99 · on sale 13 of 24 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
14314320252026Week of 2025-02-11: 143 positiveWeek of 2025-02-11: 29 negativeWeek of 2025-02-18: 63 positiveWeek of 2025-02-18: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-02-25: 25 positiveWeek of 2025-02-25: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-03-04: 14 positiveWeek of 2025-03-04: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-03-11: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-03-18: 12 positiveWeek of 2025-03-25: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-03-25: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-04-08: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-04-08: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-04-15: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-04-22: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-04-29: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-04-29: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-06: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-05-13: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-20: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-05-27: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-06-03: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-10: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-06-17: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-24: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-08: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-07-08: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-15: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-07-15: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-07-22: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-07-29: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-08-05: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-08-19: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-08-26: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-09: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-09-16: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-09-23: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-09-30: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-10-07: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-10-21: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-10-21: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-11-04: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-11-11: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-11: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-11-18: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-25: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-12-02: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-09: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-12-16: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-12-23: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-12-30: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-06: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-01-13: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-20: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-01-20: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-02-03: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-02-03: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-10: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-02-10: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-17: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-02-24: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-02-24: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-03-03: 9 positiveWeek of 2026-03-03: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-10: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-10: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-17: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-24: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-03-31: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-07: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-04-14: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-04-21: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-05-12: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-05-19: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-02: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-16: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-06-16: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-23: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-07: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-14: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-21: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-07-28: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-18: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

2772026-08-25 04:00 — 9 players2026-08-25 20:00 — 12 players2026-08-26 12:00 — 12 players2026-08-27 04:00 — 7 players2026-08-27 20:00 — 13 players2026-08-28 12:00 — 15 players2026-08-29 04:00 — 12 players2026-08-29 20:00 — 13 players2026-08-30 12:00 — 27 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$17.99$8.992025-02-112026-08-232025-02-11 — best price $16.192025-02-18 — best price $17.992025-03-13 — best price $15.292025-03-27 — best price $17.992025-05-05 — best price $14.392025-05-19 — best price $17.992025-06-18 — best price $14.392025-06-27 — best price $13.492025-07-10 — best price $17.992025-07-26 — best price $13.492025-08-09 — best price $17.992025-09-08 — best price $13.492025-09-22 — best price $17.992025-09-29 — best price $12.592025-10-06 — best price $17.992025-10-22 — best price $12.592025-11-05 — best price $17.992025-12-05 — best price $11.692025-12-18 — best price $10.792026-01-05 — best price $17.992026-01-17 — best price $10.792026-01-29 — best price $17.992026-02-28 — best price $9.892026-03-14 — best price $17.992026-03-19 — best price $9.892026-03-26 — best price $17.992026-04-13 — best price $9.892026-04-27 — best price $17.992026-05-27 — best price $8.992026-06-10 — best price $17.992026-06-25 — best price $8.992026-07-09 — best price $17.992026-07-10 — best price $8.992026-07-24 — best price $17.992026-08-23 — best price $8.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

60+
achievements tracked
89.1%
earned "Room 1"
46.6%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFamily Sharing

19 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Ukrainian, Russian, Hungarian, Turkish, Czech, Japanese, Polish…

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)1722%100

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

SnowCookingEconomyHuntingTradingBuildingLife SimRelaxingManagementSimulation

Census log

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

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