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Life of an NPC

Max Loh · 2025-03-03

Steam

IndieSimulationEarly Access

Modes: Single player

Releases: Mar 04, 2025 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

An AI-directed town where anything can happen. Let your NPCs thrive, or turn them against each other. Each character has their own goals and desires and responds to events in real time.

52%
positive of 21 reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
$14.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 9 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 25% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 74% of 51,349 Indie games in the census by review count.

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
9920252026Week of 2025-03-04: 9 positiveWeek of 2025-03-04: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-03-11: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-04-08: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-04-29: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-15: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-08-12: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-09-09: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-09-23: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-13: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-31: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-31: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-28: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerRemote Play TogetherFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Census log

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