The Game Census
Bot Colony cover art

Bot Colony

North Side Inc. · 2014-06-16

Steam

AdventureCasualIndieRPGSimulationStrategyEarly Access

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Third person

Releases: Jun 16, 2014 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Bot Colony is the only game controlled by speaking or typing. You command robots to move and manipulate objects. The right questions unlock videos of the events they witnessed. No dialogue trees - the game unfolds 100% based on what you say, taking interactivity and immersion to a new level.

66%
positive of 97 reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
50/100
IGDB user rating (0 ratings)
$14.99
steam price (US)
Bot Colony is an episodic adventure game by Montreal developer North Side Inc. In the game, the player uses a natural language parser to converse with robot characters. The game is played through a PC client, whose major functions are running the 3D world, speech-to-text, and communication with the server, the game's language processing and reasoning running on a server farm. The developer has written a novel of the same name, published in December 2010.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 8 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity up 0% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 41% of 29,320 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 2.4k–5.8k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 97 total reviews — how this is computed.

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
5520142026Week of 2014-06-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2014-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2014-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2014-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2014-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2014-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2015-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2015-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2015-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2015-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-02-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2017-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2017-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2017-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$15.99$1.992015-01-012019-11-012015-01-01 — best price $9.592015-01-02 — best price $15.992015-01-24 — best price $9.992015-11-25 — best price $4.992015-12-01 — best price $9.992015-12-22 — best price $4.992016-01-04 — best price $9.992017-02-22 — best price $8.492017-03-01 — best price $9.992017-03-16 — best price $14.992017-05-01 — best price $3.742017-05-08 — best price $14.992017-06-22 — best price $5.992017-07-05 — best price $14.992017-10-26 — best price $4.492017-11-01 — best price $14.992017-11-22 — best price $4.492017-11-28 — best price $14.992017-12-21 — best price $4.492018-01-04 — best price $14.992018-04-30 — best price $4.992018-05-07 — best price $1.992018-05-14 — best price $4.992018-05-15 — best price $14.992018-10-30 — best price $5.992018-11-01 — best price $14.992018-11-21 — best price $5.992018-11-27 — best price $14.992018-12-20 — best price $5.992019-01-04 — best price $14.992019-05-27 — best price $8.992019-06-03 — best price $14.992019-06-26 — best price $7.492019-07-10 — best price $14.992019-10-28 — best price $7.492019-11-01 — best price $14.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

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Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

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Player tags

RPGFunnyIndieCasualPuzzleRobotsSci-fiStrategyAdventureDetective

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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