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Fort Sumter: The Secession Crisis cover art

Fort Sumter: The Secession Crisis

Playdek, Inc. · 2019-05-21

Steam

Strategy

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer

Releases: May 21, 2019 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), May 21, 2019 (Mac)

Can you drive the Secessionist into the Fort Sumter trap that gave Lincoln his historic victory? Can you successfully use the issue of States Rights to divide Northern opinion? Fort Sumter let’s you explore this seminal moment in American history in a fast-playing, easy-to-learn card driven game.

85%
positive of 91 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
70/100
IGDB user rating (1 ratings)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$7.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 11 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 8% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 50% of 10,864 Strategy games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 2.3k–5.5k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 91 total reviews — how this is computed.

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
8820192026Week of 2019-05-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$9.99$1.242019-05-222021-02-152019-05-22 — best price $8.992019-05-28 — best price $9.992019-06-26 — best price $4.992019-07-09 — best price $9.992019-08-16 — best price $4.992019-10-28 — best price $1.992019-11-01 — best price $4.992019-12-19 — best price $1.242020-01-02 — best price $4.992020-05-21 — best price $1.242020-05-28 — best price $4.992020-06-25 — best price $2.492020-07-09 — best price $4.992020-09-22 — best price $7.992020-12-22 — best price $3.992021-01-05 — best price $7.992021-02-11 — best price $3.992021-02-15 — best price $7.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsmacOSSingle-playerMulti-playerPvPOnline PvPShared/Split Screen PvPShared/Split ScreenCross-Platform MultiplayerSteam AchievementsStatsRemote Play Together

1 supported languages: English

Player tags

2DPvPCasualStrategyTabletopCard GameDiplomacyImmersivePoliticalBoard Game

Census log

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

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