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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.

East India Company is a Strategy game released in 2009, estimated to have 100,000 .. 200,000 owners, priced at $9.99, with a Mixed review sentiment (53% of 215 reviews).

2
playing now
53%
positive of 215 reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
0/100
critic score (2 outlets, IGDB)
50/100
IGDB user rating (4 ratings)
1
Nexus mods (52 downloads)
silver
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$9.99
steam price (US)

2 players in-game as of 2026-10-15 08:00 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.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 2 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 17 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity up 31% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 30% of 14,289 Strategy games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-01

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)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
9920122026Week of 2012-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2012-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2013-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2013-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2013-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2013-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2013-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2013-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2014-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2014-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2014-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2014-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2014-04-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2014-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2014-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2014-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2014-07-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2014-07-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2014-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-12-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2017-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 2 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

902026-09-15 17:00 — 2 players2026-09-17 01:00 — 0 players2026-09-18 09:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 16:00 — 3 players2026-09-21 00:00 — 4 players2026-09-22 07:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 15:00 — 6 players2026-09-24 22:00 — 1 players2026-09-26 06:00 — 1 players2026-09-27 13:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 21:00 — 4 players2026-09-30 04:00 — 2 players2026-10-01 12:00 — 4 players2026-10-02 19:00 — 4 players2026-10-04 03:00 — 2 players2026-10-05 11:00 — 3 players2026-10-06 19:00 — 1 players2026-10-08 02:00 — 3 players2026-10-09 10:00 — 4 players2026-10-10 17:00 — 9 players2026-10-12 01:00 — 2 players2026-10-13 08:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 16:00 — 2 players2026-10-15 08:00 — 2 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
161Jul 2012Aug 2026Jul 2012 — avg 5 · peak 11Dec 2012 — avg 5 · peak 16May 2013 — avg 4 · peak 11Oct 2013 — avg 3 · peak 11Mar 2014 — avg 4 · peak 11Aug 2014 — avg 5 · peak 17Jan 2015 — avg 3 · peak 8Jun 2015 — avg 2 · peak 6Nov 2015 — avg 2 · peak 8Apr 2016 — avg 2 · peak 6Sep 2016 — avg 1 · peak 6Feb 2017 — avg 4 · peak 12Jul 2017 — avg 4 · peak 14Dec 2017 — avg 6 · peak 19May 2018 — avg 3 · peak 10Oct 2018 — avg 3 · peak 10Mar 2019 — avg 4 · peak 14Aug 2019 — avg 3 · peak 10Jan 2020 — avg 3 · peak 11Jun 2020 — avg 5 · peak 16Nov 2020 — avg 4 · peak 12Apr 2021 — avg 4 · peak 12Sep 2021 — avg 3 · peak 7Feb 2022 — avg 3 · peak 9Jul 2022 — avg 3 · peak 9Dec 2022 — avg 3 · peak 8May 2023 — avg 3 · peak 8Oct 2023 — avg 3 · peak 10Mar 2024 — avg 2 · peak 7Aug 2024 — avg 3 · peak 7Jan 2025 — avg 3 · peak 12Jun 2025 — avg 3 · peak 8Nov 2025 — avg 3 · peak 8Apr 2026 — avg 3 · peak 10Aug 2026 — avg 3 · peak 8
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

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

1842026-05-30 — 13 pageviews2026-06-03 — 13 pageviews2026-06-07 — 10 pageviews2026-06-11 — 4 pageviews2026-06-15 — 10 pageviews2026-06-19 — 8 pageviews2026-06-23 — 7 pageviews2026-06-27 — 6 pageviews2026-07-01 — 10 pageviews2026-07-05 — 15 pageviews2026-07-09 — 9 pageviews2026-07-13 — 11 pageviews2026-07-17 — 6 pageviews2026-07-21 — 5 pageviews2026-07-25 — 13 pageviews2026-07-29 — 6 pageviews2026-08-02 — 10 pageviews2026-08-06 — 13 pageviews2026-08-10 — 12 pageviews2026-08-14 — 11 pageviews2026-08-18 — 13 pageviews2026-08-22 — 16 pageviews2026-08-26 — 13 pageviews2026-08-30 — 18 pageviews2026-09-03 — 8 pageviews2026-09-07 — 8 pageviews2026-09-11 — 10 pageviews2026-09-15 — 10 pageviews2026-09-19 — 11 pageviews2026-09-23 — 8 pageviews2026-09-27 — 14 pageviews2026-10-01 — 11 pageviews2026-10-05 — 11 pageviews2026-10-09 — 9 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerMulti-playerFamily Sharing3 DLC

3 supported languages: English, French, German

Post-launch support: 3 DLC released, first 2009-07-31, latest 2010-05-20 (Steam store data)

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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