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Geneforge 1 cover art

Geneforge 1

Spiderweb Software · 2001-12-01

Steam

StrategyRPGIndie

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Bird view / Isometric

Releases: Mar 19, 2002 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Dec 21, 2001 (Mac)

Geneforge is an Indie fantasy role-playing game, the first game in the five-part Geneforge Saga. It features an enormous world, the ability to create your own army of lethal, totally obedient creatures, and a cunning enemy AI with foes who can go on patrols, stalk you, and run for help. Geneforge has a huge and open storyline.

Geneforge 1 is a Strategy, RPG, and Indie title released in 2001, priced at $19.99, with an estimated 100,000 to 200,000 owners and a Very Positive review sentiment (92% of 396 reviews).

2
playing now
92%
positive of 396 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
86/100
IGDB user rating (11 ratings)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$19.99
steam price (US)

2 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 16:00 UTC (census sample)

Geneforge is the first video game in the Geneforge series of role-playing video games created by Spiderweb Software.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 2 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 8 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 11% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 23% of 14,087 Strategy games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-31

Estimated sales: 16k–32k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 396 total reviews — how this is computed.

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
101020152026Week of 2015-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2015-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2015-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2015-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2015-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-09-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2015-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2015-12-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2016-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2016-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2016-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2016-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-07-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2016-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2016-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-11-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2016-12-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2017-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-02-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2017-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2017-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-11-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

402026-09-15 01:00 — 1 players2026-09-16 09:00 — 2 players2026-09-17 17:00 — 1 players2026-09-19 00:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 08:00 — 0 players2026-09-21 15:00 — 0 players2026-09-22 23:00 — 1 players2026-09-24 06:00 — 1 players2026-09-25 14:00 — 1 players2026-09-26 21:00 — 2 players2026-09-28 05:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 12:00 — 2 players2026-09-30 20:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 03:00 — 1 players2026-10-03 11:00 — 1 players2026-10-04 19:00 — 2 players2026-10-06 03:00 — 2 players2026-10-07 10:00 — 1 players2026-10-08 18:00 — 2 players2026-10-10 01:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 09:00 — 1 players2026-10-12 16:00 — 2 players2026-10-14 00:00 — 4 players2026-10-14 16:00 — 2 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$19.99$3.992015-01-012021-02-152015-01-01 — best price $3.992015-01-12 — best price $19.992015-05-18 — best price $3.992015-06-22 — best price $19.992015-09-28 — best price $3.992015-12-01 — best price $19.992015-12-22 — best price $3.992016-02-12 — best price $19.992016-04-25 — best price $5.992016-07-04 — best price $19.992018-06-22 — best price $5.992018-08-13 — best price $19.992018-11-21 — best price $5.992019-01-03 — best price $19.992019-02-04 — best price $5.992019-02-21 — best price $19.992019-06-17 — best price $5.992019-07-09 — best price $19.992019-10-28 — best price $5.992019-11-18 — best price $19.992019-12-19 — best price $5.992020-01-27 — best price $19.992020-04-20 — best price $5.992020-05-23 — best price $19.992020-08-03 — best price $5.992020-10-12 — best price $19.992020-11-25 — best price $5.992021-01-05 — best price $19.992021-02-11 — best price $7.992021-02-15 — best price $19.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

3412026-06-02 — 8 pageviews2026-06-06 — 5 pageviews2026-06-10 — 13 pageviews2026-06-14 — 18 pageviews2026-06-18 — 10 pageviews2026-06-22 — 6 pageviews2026-06-26 — 23 pageviews2026-06-30 — 16 pageviews2026-07-04 — 14 pageviews2026-07-08 — 9 pageviews2026-07-12 — 12 pageviews2026-07-16 — 34 pageviews2026-07-20 — 20 pageviews2026-07-24 — 18 pageviews2026-07-28 — 8 pageviews2026-08-01 — 12 pageviews2026-08-05 — 9 pageviews2026-08-09 — 27 pageviews2026-08-13 — 9 pageviews2026-08-17 — 7 pageviews2026-08-21 — 6 pageviews2026-08-25 — 5 pageviews2026-08-29 — 11 pageviews2026-09-02 — 10 pageviews2026-09-06 — 11 pageviews2026-09-10 — 6 pageviews2026-09-14 — 10 pageviews2026-09-18 — 5 pageviews2026-09-22 — 8 pageviews2026-09-26 — 9 pageviews2026-09-30 — 6 pageviews2026-10-04 — 12 pageviews2026-10-08 — 9 pageviews2026-10-11 — 15 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Player tags

RPGCRPGIndieClassicFantasyStrategyIsometricOld SchoolStory RichTurn-Based

Census log

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

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