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Industry Idle cover art

Industry Idle

FishPond · Fish Pond Studio · 2024-09-13

Steam

IndieSimulationStrategyFree To Play

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer · Perspectives: Bird view / Isometric

Releases: Mar 29, 2021 (Linux), Mar 29, 2021 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Mar 29, 2021 (Mac), Feb 22, 2021 (Android), Apr 07, 2021 (iOS)

Industry Idle is an idle game that combines factory building, resource management and market trading. Design & build your base, expand & scale up your productions, improve & optimize your economy. Plus all the incremental game goodies: offline earnings, prestige to unlock more powerful upgrades.

77%
positive of 1.5k reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
bronze
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
Free
steam price (US)

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 77 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~10/week).
  • · Review velocity up 4% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 8% of 50,052 Indie games in the census by review count.

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
11911920212026Week of 2021-03-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 113 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 17 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 119 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 28 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 73 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 32 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 43 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 16 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 35 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 33 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 94 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 41 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 33 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 24 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 22 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 19 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-09-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-09-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Completion

60+
achievements tracked
6.3%
earned "Norwegian Oil Hobbyist"
1.2%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxSingle-playerMulti-playerSteam AchievementsSteam CloudFamily Sharing2 DLC

13 supported languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Russian, Dutch, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Portuguese - Brazil, Vietnamese, Korean, Japanese…

Post-launch support: 2 DLC released, first 2021-03-20, latest 2022-03-28 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)6132%71

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

Census log

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

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