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Go For Launch: Mercury cover art

Go For Launch: Mercury

Joe Chisholm · First Time Games · 2021-07-04

Steam

ActionIndieSimulation

Modes: Single player

Releases: Jul 04, 2021 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Re-live the early days of spaceflight in the accurate, detailed and exciting simulation of the Mercury spacecraft.

Go For Launch: Mercury is an Action, Indie, and Simulation game released in 2021, priced at $9.99, with an estimated 20,000 to 50,000 owners and a Very Positive review sentiment (81% of 73 reviews).

0
playing now
81%
positive of 73 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
60/100
IGDB user rating (0 ratings)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$9.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 09:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 8 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 47% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 44% of 27,740 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-02

Estimated sales: 1.5k–3.3k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 73 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $3.99 at Steam (2023-12-04)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $9.99 · on sale 3 of 6 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
6620172026Week of 2017-10-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2017-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

002026-09-15 09:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 17:00 — 0 players2026-09-18 01:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 08:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 16:00 — 0 players2026-09-22 00:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 07:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 15:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 22:00 — 0 players2026-09-27 06:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 13:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 21:00 — 0 players2026-10-01 04:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 12:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 20:00 — 0 players2026-10-05 04:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 11:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 19:00 — 0 players2026-10-09 02:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 10:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 17:00 — 0 players2026-10-13 01:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 09:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
10Dec 2016Oct 2020Dec 2016 — avg 0 · peak 0May 2017 — avg 0 · peak 3Jun 2017 — avg 0 · peak 1Jul 2017 — avg 0 · peak 1Aug 2017 — avg 0 · peak 2Sep 2017 — avg 0 · peak 2Oct 2017 — avg 1 · peak 10Nov 2017 — avg 0 · peak 3Dec 2017 — avg 1 · peak 6Jan 2018 — avg 0 · peak 3Feb 2018 — avg 0 · peak 3Mar 2018 — avg 0 · peak 3Apr 2018 — avg 0 · peak 3May 2018 — avg 0 · peak 2Jun 2018 — avg 0 · peak 4Jul 2018 — avg 0 · peak 3Aug 2018 — avg 0 · peak 2Sep 2018 — avg 0 · peak 2Oct 2018 — avg 0 · peak 2Nov 2018 — avg 0 · peak 4Dec 2018 — avg 0 · peak 3Jan 2019 — avg 0 · peak 3Feb 2019 — avg 0 · peak 2Mar 2019 — avg 0 · peak 3Apr 2019 — avg 0 · peak 2May 2019 — avg 0 · peak 4Jun 2019 — avg 0 · peak 2Jul 2019 — avg 0 · peak 5Aug 2019 — avg 0 · peak 2Sep 2019 — avg 0 · peak 3Aug 2020 — avg 0 · peak 3Oct 2020 — avg 0 · peak 3

No change (0) in avg players vs prior month — Oct 2020

Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$16.99$3.992017-10-072026-07-092017-10-07 — best price $16.992017-12-21 — best price $13.592018-02-19 — best price $16.992018-06-22 — best price $12.742018-11-01 — best price $16.992018-12-20 — best price $12.742019-02-12 — best price $16.992019-10-28 — best price $13.592019-12-03 — best price $16.992020-01-24 — best price $13.592020-07-09 — best price $16.992020-10-29 — best price $13.592020-12-01 — best price $16.992021-02-13 — best price $13.592021-06-25 — best price $6.992021-11-01 — best price $9.992021-12-22 — best price $7.992022-02-03 — best price $9.992022-11-22 — best price $7.492023-01-05 — best price $9.992023-11-21 — best price $4.992023-12-11 — best price $9.992024-03-14 — best price $3.992024-07-11 — best price $9.992024-11-27 — best price $6.692025-01-02 — best price $9.992025-06-26 — best price $3.992025-10-06 — best price $9.992026-03-19 — best price $3.992026-07-09 — best price $9.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerTracked Controller SupportVR SupportedFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Player tags

3DVRIndieSpaceActionFlightCold WarDinosaursEducationRealistic

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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