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Gourdlets

AuntyGames · Future Friends Games · 2024-08-15

Steam

CasualIndieSimulation

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Bird view / Isometric

Releases: Aug 15, 2024 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Aug 15, 2024 (Mac), Aug 15, 2024 (Linux)

An easygoing sandbox game about building towns for cute vegetable folks. Create your perfect community then watch as the gourdlets make themselves at home. No objectives, no points, just good vibes. Play in full screen, or let your gourdlets hang out at the bottom of your screen!

Gourdlets is a Casual, Indie, and Simulation game released in 2024, priced at $4.99, with an estimated 100,000 to 200,000 owners and a Very Positive review sentiment (92% of 2193 reviews).

4
playing now
92%
positive of 2.2k reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
2,414
twitch viewers (latest)
2414.0
viewers/channel (concentration)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$4.99
steam price (US)

4 players in-game as of 2026-10-15 06:00 UTC (census sample)

Choo choo! The train is pulling into the station, bringing the very first batch of gourdlet citizens to their new island home. Your job is to build them a perfect town. But don’t worry – Gourdlets are super laid back, and they’ll be happy no matter what you build. The only real challenge is pleasing yourself! From cafes to lighthouses, planters to fountains, there’s a huge catalogue of decorations to play with. You can even go inside buildings and arrange the furniture how you like. The gourdlets will make themselves at home in your town, fishing, reading, camping, snoozing, and generally h(Storyline via IGDB)

Health check

Healthy
  • · 4 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 205 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~26/week).
  • · Review velocity down 34% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (691 reviews).
  • · Top 5% of 29,378 Casual games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-31

Estimated sales: 44k–99k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 2,193 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $2.49 at Steam (2026-06-25) · bundled 2×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $4.99 · on sale 7 of 15 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
65665620242026Week of 2024-08-01: 656 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 35 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 194 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 81 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 208 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 110 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 64 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 35 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 68 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 38 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 28 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 63 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 44 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 30 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 40 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 2 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

1522026-09-15 16:00 — 13 players2026-09-17 00:00 — 8 players2026-09-18 07:00 — 10 players2026-09-19 15:00 — 9 players2026-09-20 22:00 — 13 players2026-09-22 06:00 — 8 players2026-09-23 14:00 — 6 players2026-09-24 21:00 — 10 players2026-09-26 05:00 — 3 players2026-09-27 12:00 — 9 players2026-09-28 20:00 — 10 players2026-09-30 03:00 — 5 players2026-10-01 11:00 — 2 players2026-10-02 18:00 — 10 players2026-10-04 02:00 — 9 players2026-10-05 10:00 — 3 players2026-10-06 17:00 — 13 players2026-10-08 01:00 — 10 players2026-10-09 08:00 — 6 players2026-10-10 16:00 — 15 players2026-10-12 00:00 — 14 players2026-10-13 07:00 — 7 players2026-10-14 15:00 — 6 players2026-10-15 06:00 — 4 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
2649Aug 2024Aug 2026Aug 2024 — avg 264 · peak 567Sep 2024 — avg 70 · peak 156Oct 2024 — avg 38 · peak 79Nov 2024 — avg 44 · peak 117Dec 2024 — avg 39 · peak 91Jan 2025 — avg 31 · peak 78Feb 2025 — avg 25 · peak 50Mar 2025 — avg 32 · peak 79Apr 2025 — avg 23 · peak 52May 2025 — avg 19 · peak 45Jun 2025 — avg 26 · peak 51Jul 2025 — avg 22 · peak 49Aug 2025 — avg 18 · peak 46Sep 2025 — avg 12 · peak 27Oct 2025 — avg 16 · peak 36Nov 2025 — avg 13 · peak 32Dec 2025 — avg 16 · peak 39Jan 2026 — avg 12 · peak 27Feb 2026 — avg 29 · peak 167Mar 2026 — avg 13 · peak 30Apr 2026 — avg 13 · peak 33May 2026 — avg 9 · peak 21Jun 2026 — avg 12 · peak 26Jul 2026 — avg 13 · peak 32Aug 2026 — avg 10 · peak 24
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$4.99$2.492024-08-152026-08-072024-08-15 — best price $3.992024-08-29 — best price $4.992024-11-14 — best price $3.992024-11-21 — best price $4.992024-11-27 — best price $3.992024-12-04 — best price $4.992024-12-19 — best price $3.992025-01-02 — best price $4.992025-02-28 — best price $3.992025-03-08 — best price $4.992025-03-13 — best price $3.992025-03-20 — best price $4.992025-04-07 — best price $3.992025-04-13 — best price $4.992025-05-29 — best price $3.992025-06-12 — best price $4.992025-06-27 — best price $3.742025-07-10 — best price $4.992025-08-07 — best price $3.742025-08-14 — best price $4.992025-09-29 — best price $3.742025-10-06 — best price $4.992025-10-13 — best price $3.742025-10-27 — best price $4.992025-11-27 — best price $3.492025-12-11 — best price $4.992025-12-18 — best price $3.492026-01-05 — best price $4.992026-02-06 — best price $3.242026-02-20 — best price $4.992026-03-19 — best price $3.242026-04-09 — best price $4.992026-05-28 — best price $3.242026-06-11 — best price $4.992026-06-25 — best price $2.492026-07-09 — best price $4.992026-07-24 — best price $2.992026-08-07 — best price $4.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

10
achievements tracked
85.7%
earned "A gift? For me????"
13.7%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxSingle-playerDualShock Controller SupportDualShock Controller SupportDualSense Controller SupportDualSense Controller SupportPartial Controller SupportFamily Sharing1 DLC

7 supported languages: English, French, German, Japanese, Portuguese - Brazil, Simplified Chinese, Spanish - Latin America

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2024-08-16 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)1,43513%10

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Where its players are

Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.

Player tags

CozyCuteCasualClickerSandboxBuildingColorfulRelaxingOpen WorldSimulation

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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