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Control Craft 3 cover art

Control Craft 3

Cristian Manolachi · Conglomerate 5 · 2016-12-30

Steam

ActionAdventureCasualIndieSimulationStrategy

Modes: Single player

Releases: Dec 30, 2016 (Mac), Dec 30, 2016 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Control Craft 3 is a fast paced RTS which brings together quick thinking and clever tactics for some veritable planet conquering action!

74%
positive of 335 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam rating
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$4.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 8 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 11% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (30 reviews).
  • · Top 51% of 10,862 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 8.4k–20k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 335 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.27 at Steam (2022-12-01) · bundled 7×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $4.99 · on sale 15 of 18 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
272720162026Week of 2016-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$4.99$0.272016-12-312026-07-272016-12-31 — best price $3.992017-06-19 — best price $4.992017-11-06 — best price $1.492018-02-19 — best price $4.992019-02-04 — best price $1.242019-11-01 — best price $4.992020-01-23 — best price $2.492020-07-09 — best price $4.992020-10-03 — best price $1.992020-12-22 — best price $0.492021-03-30 — best price $1.992021-09-03 — best price $0.492021-12-01 — best price $1.992022-03-05 — best price $0.992022-06-09 — best price $4.992022-09-15 — best price $0.492022-11-30 — best price $0.992023-01-08 — best price $3.992023-04-06 — best price $0.392023-07-27 — best price $3.992023-11-06 — best price $0.492024-01-04 — best price $0.992024-04-01 — best price $0.492024-07-11 — best price $0.992024-10-07 — best price $0.492024-12-04 — best price $0.992025-02-17 — best price $0.492025-04-07 — best price $0.992025-07-14 — best price $0.492025-10-13 — best price $0.992026-01-12 — best price $0.492026-03-26 — best price $0.992026-07-27 — best price $4.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

13
achievements tracked
3.9%
earned "Die Hard"
2.2%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam Trading CardsSteam WorkshopRemote Play on TVRemote Play TogetherFamily Sharing

9 supported languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Spanish - Latin America

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)18327%13

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

Player tags

RTSWarArcadeShooterStrategyAction RTSExplorationMetroidvaniaTower DefenseTop-Down Shooter

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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