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Jamestown

Final Form Games · 2011-06-08

Steam

ActionIndie

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

Releases: Jun 08, 2011 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Jun 08, 2011 (Linux), Jun 08, 2011 (Mac)

Jamestown: Legend Of The Lost Colony is a neo-classical top-down shooter for up to 4 players, set on 17th-century British Colonial Mars. It features all the intensity, depth, and lovingly handcrafted pixels of a classic arcade shooter, with a modern twist: deeply-integrated cooperative gameplay.

Jamestown is a 2011 Action and Indie game priced at $9.99, with an owner estimate of 500,000 .. 1,000,000 and a review sentiment of Very Positive (94% of 2365 reviews).

0
playing now
94%
positive of 2.4k reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
500,000–1,000,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
78/100
critic score (1 outlets, IGDB)
78/100
IGDB user rating (18 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$9.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 12:00 UTC (census sample)

Jamestown: Legend of the Lost Colony, also known as simply Jamestown, is a vertically scrolling shooter developed and released by Final Form Games in 2011. The game takes place on Mars in an alternate history steampunk 17th century, where the planet is an English colony contested by the Spanish and the indigenous Martians.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 5 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity up 0% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 10% of 27,649 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-30

Estimated sales: 95k–189k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 2,366 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $2.99 at Steam (2019-11-26) · bundled 1×via IsThereAnyDeal

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
101020172026Week of 2017-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2017-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

202026-09-15 13:00 — 1 players2026-09-16 21:00 — 1 players2026-09-18 04:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 12:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 19:00 — 0 players2026-09-22 03:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 11:00 — 1 players2026-09-24 18:00 — 1 players2026-09-26 02:00 — 1 players2026-09-27 09:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 17:00 — 0 players2026-09-30 00:00 — 1 players2026-10-01 08:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 15:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 23:00 — 0 players2026-10-05 07:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 14:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 22:00 — 1 players2026-10-09 05:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 13:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 21:00 — 0 players2026-10-13 04:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 12:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
291Jul 2012Sep 2024Jul 2012 — avg 29 · peak 95Nov 2012 — avg 18 · peak 53Mar 2013 — avg 10 · peak 28Jul 2013 — avg 10 · peak 28Nov 2013 — avg 12 · peak 80Mar 2014 — avg 7 · peak 22Jul 2014 — avg 8 · peak 24Nov 2014 — avg 6 · peak 20Mar 2015 — avg 6 · peak 21Jul 2015 — avg 6 · peak 18Nov 2015 — avg 5 · peak 17Mar 2016 — avg 4 · peak 14Jul 2016 — avg 3 · peak 13Nov 2016 — avg 3 · peak 16Mar 2017 — avg 3 · peak 11Jul 2017 — avg 3 · peak 11Nov 2017 — avg 2 · peak 10Mar 2018 — avg 2 · peak 9Jul 2018 — avg 2 · peak 11Nov 2018 — avg 1 · peak 12Mar 2019 — avg 1 · peak 8Jul 2019 — avg 1 · peak 7Nov 2019 — avg 2 · peak 9Mar 2020 — avg 2 · peak 9Jul 2020 — avg 1 · peak 6Nov 2020 — avg 1 · peak 7Mar 2021 — avg 1 · peak 5Sep 2021 — avg 1 · peak 5Mar 2022 — avg 1 · peak 5Feb 2024 — avg 1 · peak 5Sep 2024 — avg 1 · peak 4

No change (0) in avg players vs prior month — Sep 2024

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

Price history

$14.99$2.992015-01-012021-03-112015-01-01 — best price $4.992015-01-02 — best price $9.992015-06-11 — best price $3.992015-06-22 — best price $9.992018-11-05 — best price $14.992018-11-19 — best price $9.992019-10-07 — best price $4.992019-10-14 — best price $9.992019-11-26 — best price $2.992019-12-03 — best price $9.992021-03-11 — best price $4.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

2862026-06-01 — 13 pageviews2026-06-05 — 8 pageviews2026-06-09 — 28 pageviews2026-06-13 — 22 pageviews2026-06-17 — 22 pageviews2026-06-21 — 20 pageviews2026-06-25 — 7 pageviews2026-06-29 — 6 pageviews2026-07-03 — 18 pageviews2026-07-07 — 8 pageviews2026-07-11 — 12 pageviews2026-07-15 — 19 pageviews2026-07-19 — 13 pageviews2026-07-23 — 16 pageviews2026-07-27 — 15 pageviews2026-07-31 — 17 pageviews2026-08-04 — 12 pageviews2026-08-08 — 8 pageviews2026-08-12 — 8 pageviews2026-08-16 — 13 pageviews2026-08-20 — 6 pageviews2026-08-24 — 17 pageviews2026-08-28 — 15 pageviews2026-09-01 — 8 pageviews2026-09-05 — 9 pageviews2026-09-09 — 15 pageviews2026-09-13 — 16 pageviews2026-09-17 — 23 pageviews2026-09-21 — 12 pageviews2026-09-25 — 8 pageviews2026-09-29 — 18 pageviews2026-10-03 — 9 pageviews2026-10-07 — 15 pageviews2026-10-10 — 18 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

42
achievements tracked
88.9%
earned "Tyrannicide"
11.1%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSFull controller supportSingle-playerMulti-playerPvPShared/Split Screen PvPCo-opShared/Split Screen Co-opShared/Split ScreenSteam AchievementsFull controller supportStats1 DLC

1 supported languages: English

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2011-11-10 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)29,0700%42

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

2DCo-opIndieRetroActionArcadeDifficultSteampunkBullet HellLocal Co-Op

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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