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Darwinia cover art

Darwinia

Introversion Software · 2005-12-01

SteamGOG

IndieStrategy

Modes: Single player

Releases: Mar 04, 2005 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Mar 18, 2005 (Linux), Mar 30, 2005 (Mac)

Darwinia blends real-time strategy, action, and puzzles with a unique gesture-based control system. Save the Darwinians, battle viruses, and restore order in a retro-inspired digital world. Winner of multiple prestigious  awards, including the Seumas McNally Grand Prize at IGF 2006.

80%
positive of 1.1k reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
82/100
critic score (3 outlets, IGDB)
71/100
IGDB user rating (17 ratings)
5h
to beat · completionist 8h
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$11.99
steam price (US)
Darwinia is a 2005 real-time tactics and real-time strategy video game for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. It is the second game developed by Introversion Software, and is set within a computer environment that simulates artificial intelligence. It received favourable reviews and won three awards at the 2006 Independent Games Festival. A multiplayer sequel, Multiwinia, was released for Windows in 2008. Darwinia and Multiwinia were released together as Darwinia+ for the Xbox 360 in 2010.

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 24 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~3/week).
  • · Review velocity down 17% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (85 reviews).
  • · Top 23% of 18,766 Indie games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 45k–91k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 1,133 total reviews — how this is computed.

Review momentum

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Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Attention

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

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxFull controller supportSingle-playerFull controller supportSteam CloudIncludes level editorFamily Sharing

5 supported languages: English, German, French, Italian, Spanish - Spain

Player tags

3DPvERTSIndieArcadePuzzleSurrealWargameAbstractGod Game

Census log

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

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