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Farlight Explorers

Farlight Games Industry · 2019-02-01

Steam

IndieSimulationStrategy

Modes: Single player

Releases: Mar 11, 2015 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Extract and gather resources from different planets. Manage the supply of electricity, water, food and oxygen of your base in order to survive. Automate the creation of new products. Build a spaceship to transport your products to other places...

55%
positive of 204 reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
50/100
IGDB user rating (0 ratings)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$9.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 9 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 10% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 26% of 45,157 Indie games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 5.1k–12k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 204 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $4.99 at Steam (2020-10-29)via IsThereAnyDeal

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
212120152026Week of 2015-03-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2015-03-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2015-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2015-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-05-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2015-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2015-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2015-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-07-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2015-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2015-08-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2015-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2015-09-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2015-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2015-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2016-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2016-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2016-04-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2016-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-06-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2016-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2017-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2017-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2017-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2017-10-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2017-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2019-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-09-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$17.99$4.992015-03-112021-03-222015-03-11 — best price $15.292015-05-25 — best price $17.992015-07-20 — best price $14.392015-09-28 — best price $17.992015-12-01 — best price $14.992015-12-22 — best price $9.892016-02-12 — best price $14.992016-05-23 — best price $9.892016-07-04 — best price $14.992016-11-23 — best price $9.892017-01-02 — best price $14.992017-04-10 — best price $9.892017-06-19 — best price $14.992017-08-14 — best price $9.892017-10-23 — best price $14.992017-11-22 — best price $9.892018-01-04 — best price $14.992018-02-15 — best price $9.892018-04-02 — best price $14.992018-07-30 — best price $9.892018-10-15 — best price $14.992018-12-20 — best price $9.892019-01-14 — best price $14.992019-04-22 — best price $9.892019-07-09 — best price $14.992019-10-14 — best price $7.492019-11-01 — best price $14.992019-12-09 — best price $7.492020-01-27 — best price $14.992020-06-25 — best price $7.492020-09-14 — best price $14.992020-11-02 — best price $9.992020-12-22 — best price $4.992021-01-25 — best price $9.992021-03-15 — best price $4.992021-03-22 — best price $9.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

8
achievements tracked
25.1%
earned "Mineral Extractor Completed"
1.5%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam Trading CardsFamily Sharing

3 supported languages: English, Spanish - Spain, Spanish - Latin America

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)870%8

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

Player tags

IndieSpaceSci-fiSandboxBuildingCraftingStrategyAutomationSimulation

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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