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Farlanders cover art

Farlanders

Andrii Bychkovskyi · Crytivo · 2023-01-17

SteamGOG

IndieSimulationStrategy

Modes: Single player

Releases: Jan 17, 2023 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Terraform, strategize, and construct a Martian colony in this retro-inspired turn-based city builder. Create a comfortable living for your citizens, research alien artifacts, and uncover the secrets of the Red Planet.

3
playing now
91%
positive of 587 reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$14.99
steam price (US)

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

Farlanders is a turn-based space colony city-building game set on Mars. It is of the strategy genre, having puzzle elements, the perspective is 2D and gridded, and the maps are procedurally generated. Terraforming is an integral part of the strategy for colonization. It has seven missions in total.

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 3 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 40 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~5/week).
  • · Review velocity up 60% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (181 reviews).
  • · Top 33% of 18,104 Indie games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 12k–26k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 587 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

lowest across shops (ITAD)$3.74-75%
GOG$3.75-75%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $2.90 at AllYouPlay (2026-01-26) · bundled 2×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $14.99 · on sale 57 of 100 observed days · $0.85 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
16616620232026Week of 2023-01-01: 166 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 55 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 28 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

1702026-08-11 22:00 — 3 players2026-08-12 14:00 — 3 players2026-08-13 06:00 — 1 players2026-08-13 21:00 — 3 players2026-08-14 13:00 — 0 players2026-08-15 05:00 — 2 players2026-08-15 21:00 — 4 players2026-08-16 13:00 — 2 players2026-08-17 05:00 — 3 players2026-08-17 18:00 — 5 players2026-08-18 10:00 — 4 players2026-08-19 02:00 — 8 players2026-08-19 18:00 — 13 players2026-08-20 09:00 — 14 players2026-08-21 01:00 — 7 players2026-08-21 17:00 — 9 players2026-08-22 09:00 — 15 players2026-08-23 00:00 — 8 players2026-08-23 16:00 — 17 players2026-08-24 08:00 — 11 players2026-08-25 00:00 — 6 players2026-08-25 16:00 — 14 players2026-08-26 08:00 — 7 players2026-08-27 00:00 — 6 players2026-08-27 16:00 — 8 players2026-08-28 08:00 — 2 players2026-08-29 00:00 — 5 players2026-08-29 16:00 — 10 players2026-08-30 08:00 — 3 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$99.99$3.292022-08-172026-08-302022-08-17 — best price $99.992023-04-05 — best price $9.742023-06-27 — best price $10.492023-08-25 — best price $9.742023-10-25 — best price $14.992023-11-20 — best price $9.742023-12-13 — best price $9.742024-01-16 — best price $9.742024-03-04 — best price $9.742024-04-10 — best price $8.992024-05-17 — best price $8.992024-06-18 — best price $14.992024-07-23 — best price $9.742024-08-26 — best price $9.742024-10-10 — best price $7.492024-11-13 — best price $9.742024-12-18 — best price $9.742025-01-24 — best price $9.742025-02-24 — best price $7.352025-03-21 — best price $14.992025-04-21 — best price $14.992025-06-13 — best price $7.492025-07-12 — best price $14.992025-09-04 — best price $7.492025-10-08 — best price $14.992025-11-19 — best price $3.742025-12-11 — best price $3.742026-01-10 — best price $14.992026-03-10 — best price $3.742026-04-09 — best price $14.992026-05-22 — best price $14.992026-06-19 — best price $3.702026-07-16 — best price $3.742026-08-30 — best price $3.75
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

602026-06-02 — 1 pageviews2026-06-05 — 1 pageviews2026-06-08 — 4 pageviews2026-06-11 — 1 pageviews2026-06-14 — 1 pageviews2026-06-17 — 4 pageviews2026-06-20 — 1 pageviews2026-06-23 — 3 pageviews2026-06-26 — 2 pageviews2026-06-29 — 4 pageviews2026-07-02 — 2 pageviews2026-07-05 — 5 pageviews2026-07-08 — 6 pageviews2026-07-11 — 1 pageviews2026-07-14 — 5 pageviews2026-07-17 — 3 pageviews2026-07-21 — 4 pageviews2026-07-24 — 0 pageviews2026-07-27 — 1 pageviews2026-07-30 — 0 pageviews2026-08-03 — 2 pageviews2026-08-06 — 2 pageviews2026-08-09 — 5 pageviews2026-08-13 — 1 pageviews2026-08-16 — 2 pageviews2026-08-19 — 0 pageviews2026-08-22 — 4 pageviews2026-08-25 — 1 pageviews2026-08-28 — 2 pageviews2026-08-29 — 0 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

45
achievements tracked
72.1%
earned "Actually, It's Impossible to Have Liquid Water on Mars"
13.7%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam CloudFamily Sharing

5 supported languages: English, Simplified Chinese, Ukrainian, German, French

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)6372%45

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

Player tags

2DMarsSpaceBuildingStrategyColony SimManagementSimulationTurn-BasedCity Builder

Census log

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

Players also track

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Similarity via IGDB.

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