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Gods and Idols

JatteGames · 2016-12-12

Steam

IndieRPGSimulationStrategyFree To PlayEarly Access

Modes: Multiplayer, Co-operative, Massively Multiplayer Online (MMO)

Releases: Dec 12, 2016 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Take the role of a newly ascended deity in Gods and Idols. Carve your place among the stars in an open, dynamic, and massive MMORTS universe. Command the powers of the cosmos, form alliances, and use your worshipers as instruments to further your goals.

Gods and Idols is an Indie, RPG, Simulation and Strategy game released in 2016, priced at free-to-play, with an estimated owner base of 100,000 .. 200,000 and a Mixed review sentiment (69% of 758 reviews).

2
playing now
69%
positive of 758 reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
50/100
IGDB user rating (1 ratings)
borked
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
Free
steam price (US)

2 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 15:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 2 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 12 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity down 20% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 12% of 49,602 Indie games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-31

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
121220172026Week of 2017-03-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2017-03-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2017-04-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2017-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2017-05-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2017-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-06-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2017-06-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2017-07-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2017-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-08-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2017-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-09-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2017-09-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2017-10-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2017-11-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2017-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2018-01-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2018-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2018-05-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2018-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2018-07-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-08-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-09-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-10-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-12-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-08-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2019-11-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2019-12-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-03-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

302026-09-15 01:00 — 1 players2026-09-16 09:00 — 0 players2026-09-17 16:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 00:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 07:00 — 1 players2026-09-21 15:00 — 0 players2026-09-22 23:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 06:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 14:00 — 0 players2026-09-26 21:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 05:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 12:00 — 0 players2026-09-30 20:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 03:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 11:00 — 1 players2026-10-04 19:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 02:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 10:00 — 2 players2026-10-08 17:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 01:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 08:00 — 0 players2026-10-12 16:00 — 3 players2026-10-14 00:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 15:00 — 2 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
1040Nov 2016Apr 2026Nov 2016 — avg 0 · peak 1Feb 2017 — avg 16 · peak 57May 2017 — avg 8 · peak 27Aug 2017 — avg 3 · peak 12Nov 2017 — avg 2 · peak 20Feb 2018 — avg 0 · peak 3May 2018 — avg 0 · peak 5Aug 2018 — avg 3 · peak 40Nov 2018 — avg 3 · peak 14Feb 2019 — avg 3 · peak 12May 2019 — avg 1 · peak 5Aug 2019 — avg 2 · peak 8Nov 2019 — avg 4 · peak 15Feb 2020 — avg 1 · peak 4May 2020 — avg 7 · peak 20Aug 2020 — avg 5 · peak 13Nov 2020 — avg 5 · peak 14Feb 2021 — avg 3 · peak 7May 2021 — avg 2 · peak 9Sep 2021 — avg 1 · peak 6Feb 2022 — avg 2 · peak 6May 2022 — avg 3 · peak 9Aug 2022 — avg 2 · peak 6Nov 2022 — avg 1 · peak 5Feb 2023 — avg 1 · peak 5Dec 2023 — avg 2 · peak 6May 2025 — avg 2 · peak 9Apr 2026 — avg 2 · peak 5

▼ −1 avg players (−29.9%) vs prior month — Apr 2026

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

Details

WindowsMulti-playerMMOPvPOnline PvPCo-opOnline Co-opFamily Sharing

Player tags

4XRTSWarIdlerIndieSpaceSci-fiGod GameStrategyAction RTS

Census log

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

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