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Farlanders cover art

Farlanders

Andrii Bychkovskyi · Crytivo · 2023-01-17

SteamGOG

IndieSimulationStrategy

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Bird view / Isometric

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.

Farlanders is an Indie, Simulation, and Strategy game released in 2023, priced at $14.99, with an estimated 50,000 to 100,000 owners and a Very Positive review sentiment (90% of 598 reviews).

0
playing now
90%
positive of 598 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Verified
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$14.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-16 01:00 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
  • · 0 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 14% of 50,970 Indie games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 12k–27k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 598 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

GOG$14.99

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 80 of 133 observed days · $12.09 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

602026-09-16 11:00 — 2 players2026-09-17 19:00 — 1 players2026-09-19 02:00 — 3 players2026-09-20 10:00 — 5 players2026-09-21 18:00 — 5 players2026-09-23 01:00 — 1 players2026-09-24 09:00 — 2 players2026-09-25 16:00 — 1 players2026-09-27 00:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 07:00 — 1 players2026-09-29 15:00 — 2 players2026-09-30 22:00 — 1 players2026-10-02 06:00 — 3 players2026-10-03 13:00 — 3 players2026-10-04 21:00 — 3 players2026-10-06 05:00 — 3 players2026-10-07 12:00 — 3 players2026-10-08 20:00 — 6 players2026-10-10 03:00 — 4 players2026-10-11 11:00 — 5 players2026-10-12 19:00 — 6 players2026-10-14 02:00 — 1 players2026-10-15 10:00 — 3 players2026-10-16 01:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
1373Jan 2023Aug 2026Jan 2023 — avg 137 · peak 240Mar 2023 — avg 15 · peak 36May 2023 — avg 4 · peak 13Jul 2023 — avg 10 · peak 27Sep 2023 — avg 11 · peak 38Nov 2023 — avg 7 · peak 21Jan 2024 — avg 6 · peak 17Mar 2024 — avg 6 · peak 18May 2024 — avg 8 · peak 26Jul 2024 — avg 7 · peak 18Sep 2024 — avg 4 · peak 13Nov 2024 — avg 5 · peak 17Jan 2025 — avg 6 · peak 19Mar 2025 — avg 4 · peak 12May 2025 — avg 3 · peak 9Jul 2025 — avg 4 · peak 10Sep 2025 — avg 4 · peak 12Dec 2025 — avg 5 · peak 17Feb 2026 — avg 3 · peak 10Apr 2026 — avg 4 · peak 13Jun 2026 — avg 3 · peak 9Aug 2026 — avg 6 · peak 24
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$99.99$3.292022-08-172026-10-162022-08-17 — 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 $3.742026-09-01 — best price $3.752026-09-11 — best price $14.992026-09-21 — best price $3.752026-10-01 — best price $3.752026-10-11 — best price $14.992026-10-16 — best price $14.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

602026-06-02 — 1 pageviews2026-06-06 — 4 pageviews2026-06-10 — 3 pageviews2026-06-14 — 1 pageviews2026-06-18 — 2 pageviews2026-06-22 — 2 pageviews2026-06-26 — 2 pageviews2026-06-30 — 3 pageviews2026-07-04 — 2 pageviews2026-07-08 — 6 pageviews2026-07-12 — 0 pageviews2026-07-16 — 2 pageviews2026-07-21 — 4 pageviews2026-07-25 — 1 pageviews2026-07-29 — 1 pageviews2026-08-03 — 2 pageviews2026-08-07 — 0 pageviews2026-08-12 — 0 pageviews2026-08-16 — 2 pageviews2026-08-20 — 3 pageviews2026-08-24 — 1 pageviews2026-08-28 — 2 pageviews2026-09-02 — 5 pageviews2026-09-06 — 0 pageviews2026-09-11 — 3 pageviews2026-09-15 — 4 pageviews2026-09-20 — 3 pageviews2026-09-24 — 2 pageviews2026-09-28 — 4 pageviews2026-10-02 — 1 pageviews2026-10-06 — 0 pageviews2026-10-10 — 1 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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