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Fire & Maneuver

Armchair Interactive · 2023-04-19

Steam

IndieStrategy

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer

Releases: Jul 15, 2022 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

The Armchair Historian brings you a new turn-based strategy game set in the Victorian Era. As muskets become rifles and infantry is confronted by modernizing artillery, it is imperative to adapt to a rapidly changing battlefield. This is a new age, not of courage and chivalry, but of Blood and Iron.

Fire & Maneuver is an Indie, Strategy game released in 2023, priced at $9.99, with an estimated 50,000 .. 100,000 owners and a Mostly Positive review sentiment (77% of 2766 reviews).

6
playing now
77%
positive of 2.8k reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$9.99
steam price (US)

6 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 17:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 6 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 35 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~4/week).
  • · Review velocity up 0% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 6% of 49,583 Indie games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-30

Estimated sales: 55k–124k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 2,766 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.99 at Steam (2025-12-18)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $9.99 · on sale 5 of 10 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
131320222026Week of 2022-07-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

1002026-09-15 02:00 — 4 players2026-09-16 10:00 — 1 players2026-09-17 18:00 — 6 players2026-09-19 01:00 — 5 players2026-09-20 09:00 — 2 players2026-09-21 17:00 — 6 players2026-09-23 00:00 — 10 players2026-09-24 08:00 — 2 players2026-09-25 15:00 — 3 players2026-09-26 23:00 — 7 players2026-09-28 06:00 — 1 players2026-09-29 14:00 — 3 players2026-09-30 21:00 — 2 players2026-10-02 05:00 — 4 players2026-10-03 12:00 — 8 players2026-10-04 20:00 — 4 players2026-10-06 04:00 — 4 players2026-10-07 11:00 — 2 players2026-10-08 19:00 — 4 players2026-10-10 02:00 — 6 players2026-10-11 10:00 — 4 players2026-10-12 18:00 — 4 players2026-10-14 01:00 — 1 players2026-10-14 17:00 — 6 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$25.17$0.002022-07-152026-07-092022-07-15 — best price $23.912022-07-30 — best price $0.002022-10-03 — best price $14.352022-11-22 — best price $15.732022-12-10 — best price $13.642022-12-22 — best price $10.482023-03-16 — best price $7.122023-04-20 — best price $14.992023-06-29 — best price $6.992023-08-28 — best price $5.992023-11-21 — best price $4.992023-12-21 — best price $3.992024-03-14 — best price $4.992024-06-27 — best price $4.992025-07-04 — best price $3.992025-09-29 — best price $2.992025-10-27 — best price $1.992025-12-18 — best price $0.992026-03-19 — best price $0.992026-06-02 — best price $0.992026-06-25 — best price $0.992026-07-09 — best price $9.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

40
achievements tracked
3.2%
earned "Victory at Paris"
0.9%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerMulti-playerPvPOnline PvPStatsFamily Sharing2 DLC

Post-launch support: 2 DLC released, first 2022-07-15, latest 2023-04-21 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)4210%40

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

Where its players are

Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.

Player tags

3DPvPWarLogicCombatMilitaryStrategyStylizedTacticalHistorical

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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