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Blacksmith Simulator

Potato Games · ForgeGames · 2025-01-21

Steam

CasualIndieSimulation

Modes: Single player

Releases: Jan 21, 2025 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Become a Medieval blacksmith in this interactive blacksmithing simulator. Upgrade your forging equipment, unlock new exotic crafting materials, grow your business, and manage your customers - in addition to engaging forging mechanics. Strike while the iron is hot and hop in front of the forge now!

35%
positive of 71 reviews
Mostly Negative
steam rating
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
58/100
critic score (1 outlets, IGDB)
50/100
IGDB user rating (2 ratings)
$4.79
steam price (US)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 8 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 80% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (32 reviews).
  • · Top 63% of 9,617 Casual games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 1.4k–3.2k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 71 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.49 at Steam (2019-10-28)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $15.99 · on sale 10 of 19 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
272720252026Week of 2025-01-21: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-01-21: 27 negativeWeek of 2025-01-28: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-01-28: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-02-04: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-03-11: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-03-18: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-20: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-06-24: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-15: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-08-19: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-08-26: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-11-11: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-06: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-02-03: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-24: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-14: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$15.99$0.492018-06-212026-08-132018-06-21 — best price $1.492018-08-13 — best price $1.992018-10-15 — best price $3.492018-10-30 — best price $1.492018-11-22 — best price $2.492018-12-20 — best price $2.492019-01-14 — best price $3.992019-02-04 — best price $1.992019-03-25 — best price $1.842019-06-26 — best price $1.842019-07-22 — best price $1.492019-09-09 — best price $1.492019-10-28 — best price $0.492019-11-18 — best price $1.492025-01-21 — best price $12.792025-03-13 — best price $11.992025-05-06 — best price $11.192025-06-26 — best price $10.392025-09-29 — best price $9.592025-11-04 — best price $8.792025-12-18 — best price $7.992026-01-11 — best price $7.192026-02-24 — best price $7.192026-03-19 — best price $6.392026-04-20 — best price $5.592026-06-01 — best price $5.592026-06-25 — best price $4.792026-08-13 — best price $4.79
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFamily Sharing

11 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian

Player tags

3DFunnySandboxBuildingCraftingLife SimMedievalRelaxingEducationManagement

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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