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IFO cover art

IFO

Lucas Le Slo · 2022-05-19

Steam

IndieSimulationStrategy

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Bird view / Isometric

Releases: Sep 12, 2023 (Playdate), May 19, 2022 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

A spaceship simulator for aliens, an ever-changing rule discovery puzzle for humans.

IFO is an Indie, Simulation, Strategy game released in 2022, priced at $3.99, with Very Positive (85% of 112 reviews) sentiment and an estimated owner base of 50,000 .. 100,000.

0
playing now
85%
positive of 112 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$3.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 19:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 16 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity up 0% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 34% of 49,573 Indie games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-01

Estimated sales: 2.2k–5.0k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 112 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $1.99 at Steam (2025-05-29)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $3.99 · on sale 4 of 8 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
151520222026Week of 2022-05-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 2 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 2024-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 2 positiveWeek 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 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

102026-09-15 04:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 13:00 — 0 players2026-09-17 20:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 04:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 11:00 — 0 players2026-09-21 19:00 — 1 players2026-09-23 02:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 10:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 17:00 — 0 players2026-09-27 01:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 08:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 16:00 — 0 players2026-09-30 23:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 07:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 14:00 — 0 players2026-10-04 23:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 06:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 14:00 — 0 players2026-10-08 21:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 05:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 12:00 — 0 players2026-10-12 20:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 03:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 19:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$3.99$1.992022-05-192026-07-092022-05-19 — best price $3.592022-11-22 — best price $3.192022-12-22 — best price $2.992023-03-16 — best price $3.192023-04-24 — best price $2.992023-06-29 — best price $3.192023-08-03 — best price $2.792023-11-21 — best price $2.792023-12-21 — best price $2.592024-03-14 — best price $2.792024-05-23 — best price $2.592024-06-27 — best price $2.592024-11-27 — best price $2.592024-12-20 — best price $2.392025-03-13 — best price $2.192025-05-29 — best price $1.992025-06-27 — best price $1.992025-12-18 — best price $1.992026-03-19 — best price $1.992026-05-28 — best price $1.992026-06-25 — best price $1.992026-07-09 — best price $3.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

4
achievements tracked
91.1%
earned "Experimenter"
78.1%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam CloudFamily Sharing

40 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Bulgarian, Czech, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Korean, Danish, Spanish - Latin America…

Player tags

2DIndieSpaceAliensPuzzleSci-fiAbstractStrategySpace SimFuturistic

Census log

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

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