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Big Dipper

Team Zimno · Top Hat Studios Inc · 2019-01-07

SteamPlayStation Store

IndieSimulation

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: First person, Text

Releases: Jan 17, 2019 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Jan 17, 2019 (Linux), Jul 27, 2020 (PlayStation Vita), Jan 17, 2019 (Mac), Aug 13, 2020 (Nintendo Switch), Aug 18, 2020 (PlayStation 4)

They say it's hard to find a place to call your own, but what if such a place was not uniquely yours? What if both of you were not willing to give it up? Big Dipper is a visual novel which tells a romantic story of the circumstances that brought two lovers together one fateful New Year's Eve.

Big Dipper is an Indie, Simulation game released in 2019, priced at $4.99, with an estimated 20,000 .. 50,000 owners and a Very Positive review sentiment (91% of 186 reviews).

0
playing now
91%
positive of 186 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
70/100
IGDB user rating (2 ratings)
4.10★
PlayStation Store rating (177 ratings)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$4.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 23:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 9 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 36% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (46 reviews).
  • · Top 26% of 50,300 Indie games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-01

Estimated sales: 4.7k–11k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 186 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.49 at Fanatical (2022-11-01) · bundled 2×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $4.99 · on sale 22 of 26 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
444420192026Week of 2019-01-01: 44 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-02-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

002026-09-16 00:00 — 0 players2026-09-17 08:00 — 0 players2026-09-18 16:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 23:00 — 0 players2026-09-21 07:00 — 0 players2026-09-22 14:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 22:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 05:00 — 0 players2026-09-26 13:00 — 0 players2026-09-27 20:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 04:00 — 0 players2026-09-30 11:00 — 0 players2026-10-01 19:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 02:00 — 0 players2026-10-04 10:00 — 0 players2026-10-05 18:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 02:00 — 0 players2026-10-08 09:00 — 0 players2026-10-09 17:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 00:00 — 0 players2026-10-12 08:00 — 0 players2026-10-13 15:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 23:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
10Jan 2019Jul 2020Jan 2019 — avg 1 · peak 11Feb 2019 — avg 0 · peak 2Mar 2019 — avg 0 · peak 2Apr 2019 — avg 0 · peak 1May 2019 — avg 0 · peak 2Jun 2019 — avg 0 · peak 3Jul 2019 — avg 0 · peak 2Aug 2019 — avg 0 · peak 1Jul 2020 — avg 1 · peak 3

▲ +1 avg players vs prior month — Jul 2020

Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$4.99$0.592019-01-072026-08-212019-01-07 — best price $4.492019-12-03 — best price $4.992020-07-09 — best price $4.992021-02-15 — best price $4.992021-06-29 — best price $0.992021-08-26 — best price $3.662021-09-30 — best price $3.662021-10-24 — best price $4.492021-11-07 — best price $3.662021-12-01 — best price $4.992022-01-17 — best price $4.492022-02-03 — best price $4.992022-02-22 — best price $3.662022-03-27 — best price $4.492022-05-22 — best price $4.492022-07-15 — best price $3.662022-11-16 — best price $3.662022-12-22 — best price $1.242023-03-24 — best price $3.662023-08-07 — best price $0.992024-02-27 — best price $3.662024-05-19 — best price $3.662024-08-03 — best price $3.662024-12-04 — best price $4.992025-03-13 — best price $0.992025-06-03 — best price $3.662025-10-06 — best price $4.992026-01-26 — best price $4.992026-04-13 — best price $0.592026-07-24 — best price $0.592026-08-21 — best price $3.73
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxSingle-playerFamily Sharing

3 supported languages: English, Russian, Simplified Chinese

Player tags

2DAnimeDramaIndieCasualLinearFantasyRomanceCartoonyStylized

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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