The Game Census
Fortune-499 cover art

Fortune-499

AP Thomson · 2018-05-10

Steam

IndieRPGStrategy

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Bird view / Isometric

Releases: May 10, 2018 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), May 10, 2018 (Mac)

There is no future in the future.

Fortune-499 is an Indie, RPG, and Strategy game released in 2018, priced at $4.99, with an estimated 0 to 20,000 owners and a Very Positive review sentiment (89% of 161 reviews).— census verdict as of 2026-10-06

89%
positive of 161 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
70/100
IGDB user rating (2 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$4.99
steam price (US)
Fortune-499 is a role-playing video game in which the player takes on the role of an oracle working in the "magical resources" department of an unnamed corporation, and has to prevent an acquisition by monsters after the company makes an initial public offering. In-game combat is card-based and takes the form of rock paper scissors matches. The game was initially released for Windows in February 2018.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 6 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity up 20% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 31% of 43,047 Indie games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 4.0k–9.7k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 161 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $3.99 at Steam (2018-12-20) · bundled 7×via IsThereAnyDeal

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
6620182026Week of 2018-05-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 2 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$4.99$3.992018-05-122019-03-222018-05-12 — best price $4.992018-12-20 — best price $3.992019-01-03 — best price $4.992019-03-21 — best price $3.992019-03-22 — best price $4.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

1302026-07-08 — 1 pageviews2026-07-11 — 1 pageviews2026-07-14 — 2 pageviews2026-07-17 — 3 pageviews2026-07-20 — 1 pageviews2026-07-23 — 1 pageviews2026-07-26 — 1 pageviews2026-07-29 — 0 pageviews2026-08-01 — 1 pageviews2026-08-04 — 0 pageviews2026-08-07 — 1 pageviews2026-08-10 — 3 pageviews2026-08-13 — 2 pageviews2026-08-16 — 5 pageviews2026-08-19 — 0 pageviews2026-08-22 — 1 pageviews2026-08-25 — 1 pageviews2026-08-28 — 4 pageviews2026-08-31 — 2 pageviews2026-09-03 — 1 pageviews2026-09-06 — 3 pageviews2026-09-09 — 8 pageviews2026-09-12 — 5 pageviews2026-09-15 — 3 pageviews2026-09-18 — 13 pageviews2026-09-21 — 3 pageviews2026-09-24 — 8 pageviews2026-09-27 — 6 pageviews2026-09-30 — 4 pageviews2026-10-03 — 2 pageviews2026-10-05 — 2 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsmacOSSingle-playerFamily Sharing

Player tags

RPGIndiePuzzleStrategyCard GameStory RichPixel Graphics

Census log

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

Players also track

Cube Land ArenaCard QuestTrials of FireDota UnderlordsArcanium: Rise of Akhan部落与弯刀 Sands of SalzaarCross BlitzStacklands

Similarity via IGDB.

Official site ↗