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East India Company cover art

East India Company

Nitro Games · 2009-07-31

Steam

Strategy

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer

Releases: Jul 28, 2009 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Trade exotic goods, command fleets, and dominate 17th-century seas. This blend of real-time strategy and naval warfare lets you build a trading empire across Europe and Asia. Strategize trade routes, engage in epic naval battles, and expand your influence to become the ultimate maritime force.

7
playing now
53%
positive of 215 reviews
Mixed
steam rating
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
0/100
critic score (2 outlets, IGDB)
50/100
IGDB user rating (4 ratings)
silver
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$9.99
steam price (US)

7 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 06:00 UTC (census sample)

East India Company is a real-time strategy video game developed by Finnish company Nitro Games and published by Paradox Interactive. It was released on July 31, 2009 in North America and on August 14, 2009 in Europe.

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  • · Top 58% of 5,909 Strategy games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 8.6k–17k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 215 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $1.99 at Steam (2014-07-07) · bundled 1×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $9.99 · on sale 3 of 6 observed days (census price snapshots)

Players online

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Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$11.07$1.992015-01-012026-07-092015-01-01 — best price $5.992015-04-13 — best price $6.992015-04-23 — best price $10.502015-04-30 — best price $10.782015-06-18 — best price $11.072015-07-08 — best price $10.792016-05-06 — best price $10.082016-06-24 — best price $9.352016-07-07 — best price $9.012017-12-06 — best price $4.992017-12-08 — best price $9.992017-12-21 — best price $4.992018-01-04 — best price $9.992020-11-27 — best price $4.992020-11-30 — best price $9.992021-06-24 — best price $4.992021-07-08 — best price $9.992024-04-11 — best price $9.992024-12-19 — best price $4.992025-01-02 — best price $9.992025-12-18 — best price $1.992026-01-05 — best price $9.992026-03-19 — best price $2.992026-03-26 — best price $9.992026-06-25 — best price $2.992026-07-09 — best price $9.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

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

Details

WindowsSingle-playerMulti-playerFamily Sharing3 DLC

3 supported languages: English, French, German

Player tags

RTSEconomyTradingMedievalStrategyDiplomacyPoliticalCapitalismHistoricalManagement

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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