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Black Powder Red Earth®

_Echelon Software · 2021-03-29

Steam

Strategy

Modes: Single player

Releases: Jan 17, 2022 (iOS), Mar 29, 2021 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Mar 29, 2021 (Mac), Mar 29, 2021 (Linux)

The near present. Step into the event horizon of a failed state, as Private Military Contractor - Cold Harbor, hunting jihadist terrorists in war-torn sprawls as a lethal surrogate for the host nation.

84%
positive of 237 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
70/100
IGDB user rating (0 ratings)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$19.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 13 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity up 18% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 34% of 11,407 Strategy games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 4.7k–11k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 237 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $14.99 at Steam (2020-01-30)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $19.99 · on sale 2 of 4 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
181820202026Week of 2020-01-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-09-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$19.99$14.992020-01-302026-07-092020-01-30 — best price $14.992021-03-30 — best price $19.992021-11-24 — best price $14.992021-12-01 — best price $19.992021-12-22 — best price $14.992022-01-05 — best price $19.992022-01-27 — best price $14.992022-02-03 — best price $19.992022-11-22 — best price $14.992022-11-29 — best price $19.992022-12-22 — best price $14.992023-01-05 — best price $19.992023-03-16 — best price $14.992023-03-23 — best price $19.992023-06-29 — best price $14.992023-07-13 — best price $19.992023-11-21 — best price $14.992023-11-28 — best price $19.992023-12-21 — best price $14.992024-01-04 — best price $19.992024-03-14 — best price $14.992024-03-21 — best price $19.992024-06-27 — best price $14.992024-07-11 — best price $19.992024-11-27 — best price $14.992024-12-04 — best price $19.992025-03-13 — best price $14.992025-03-20 — best price $19.992025-06-26 — best price $14.992025-07-10 — best price $19.992026-03-19 — best price $14.992026-03-26 — best price $19.992026-06-25 — best price $14.992026-07-09 — best price $19.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

24
achievements tracked
60.6%
earned ""They practically kill themselves.""
14.9%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxSingle-playerFamily Sharing1 DLC

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2020-03-02 (Steam store data)

Player tags

ViolentMilitaryStrategyTacticalIsometricTurn-BasedPixel GraphicsTurn-Based Tactics

Census log

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

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