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Before We Leave

Balancing Monkey Games · Team17 · 2021-05-13

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CasualIndieSimulationStrategy

Modes: Single player

Releases: Apr 05, 2022 (PlayStation 4), Aug 03, 2022 (Nintendo Switch), Nov 23, 2021 (Xbox Series X|S), May 08, 2020 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Apr 05, 2022 (PlayStation 5), Aug 18, 2021 (Mac)

Before We Leave is a city building game set in a cozy corner of the universe. Nurture your Peeps and their surroundings while rebuilding and rediscovering civilisation. Settle new lands and planets while avoiding hungry Space Whales.

11
playing now
78%
positive of 1.7k reviews
Mostly Positive
steam rating
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
84/100
critic score (6 outlets, IGDB)
70/100
IGDB user rating (14 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$19.99
steam price (US)

11 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 05:00 UTC (census sample)

Before We Leave is a city-building video game developed by Balancing Monkey Games and released by Team 17.

Health check

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 15% of 9,647 Casual games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 35k–78k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 1,727 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

GameBillet$4.28-79%
GreenManGaming$4.35-78%
WinGameStore$4.49-78%
GOG$4.99-75%
Microsoft Store$4.99-75%
GamersGate$5.00-75%
lowest across shops (ITAD)$17.49-3%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $2.87 at 2game (2022-05-20) · bundled 2×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $19.99 · on sale 121 of 188 observed days · $2.12 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Players online

2872026-08-11 19:00 — 11 players2026-08-12 10:00 — 10 players2026-08-13 02:00 — 10 players2026-08-13 18:00 — 15 players2026-08-14 10:00 — 7 players2026-08-15 02:00 — 13 players2026-08-15 17:00 — 17 players2026-08-16 09:00 — 10 players2026-08-17 01:00 — 12 players2026-08-17 17:00 — 13 players2026-08-18 09:00 — 7 players2026-08-19 01:00 — 9 players2026-08-19 16:00 — 12 players2026-08-20 08:00 — 12 players2026-08-21 00:00 — 11 players2026-08-21 16:00 — 18 players2026-08-22 07:00 — 15 players2026-08-22 23:00 — 16 players2026-08-23 15:00 — 28 players2026-08-24 07:00 — 15 players2026-08-24 23:00 — 9 players2026-08-25 14:00 — 23 players2026-08-26 07:00 — 10 players2026-08-26 21:00 — 13 players2026-08-27 13:00 — 15 players2026-08-28 05:00 — 7 players2026-08-28 21:00 — 12 players2026-08-29 13:00 — 13 players2026-08-30 05:00 — 11 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$19.99$0.002020-05-082026-08-302020-05-08 — best price $0.002021-05-30 — best price $17.882021-08-14 — best price $17.992021-10-03 — best price $19.992021-12-03 — best price $17.882022-01-16 — best price $7.992022-03-05 — best price $16.792022-04-30 — best price $6.642022-06-24 — best price $19.992022-08-23 — best price $6.162022-10-17 — best price $16.812022-12-16 — best price $19.992023-03-16 — best price $4.252023-05-18 — best price $4.992023-07-14 — best price $3.992023-10-03 — best price $16.792023-11-29 — best price $19.992024-01-30 — best price $16.792024-03-11 — best price $4.402024-05-02 — best price $3.992024-07-15 — best price $3.552024-08-25 — best price $3.892024-10-08 — best price $19.992024-11-25 — best price $3.992024-12-31 — best price $3.972025-02-16 — best price $4.102025-04-11 — best price $5.002025-05-29 — best price $5.002025-07-22 — best price $4.602025-09-04 — best price $4.492025-10-20 — best price $4.992025-12-19 — best price $5.002026-02-26 — best price $19.992026-04-14 — best price $5.192026-05-22 — best price $19.992026-07-14 — best price $19.402026-08-20 — best price $17.492026-08-30 — best price $4.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

2212026-05-28 — 4 pageviews2026-05-31 — 8 pageviews2026-06-03 — 13 pageviews2026-06-06 — 7 pageviews2026-06-09 — 3 pageviews2026-06-12 — 7 pageviews2026-06-15 — 9 pageviews2026-06-18 — 8 pageviews2026-06-21 — 6 pageviews2026-06-24 — 5 pageviews2026-06-27 — 4 pageviews2026-06-30 — 5 pageviews2026-07-03 — 9 pageviews2026-07-06 — 4 pageviews2026-07-09 — 7 pageviews2026-07-12 — 5 pageviews2026-07-15 — 10 pageviews2026-07-18 — 16 pageviews2026-07-21 — 11 pageviews2026-07-24 — 5 pageviews2026-07-27 — 11 pageviews2026-07-30 — 1 pageviews2026-08-02 — 6 pageviews2026-08-05 — 8 pageviews2026-08-08 — 8 pageviews2026-08-11 — 8 pageviews2026-08-14 — 5 pageviews2026-08-17 — 4 pageviews2026-08-20 — 9 pageviews2026-08-23 — 22 pageviews2026-08-25 — 13 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

56
achievements tracked
65.9%
earned "Blacksmith"
1.5%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFamily Sharing1 DLC

10 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Turkish, Japanese

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Xbox Series, Xbox One (Xbox)6,0641%55
Steam (Steam)4,9811%56
PS5 (PlayStation)3784%56
PS4 (PlayStation)1456%56
Switch (Nintendo)180%0

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

Player tags

3DSpaceCasualSci-fiEconomyBuildingHex GridRelaxingSimulationAtmospheric

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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