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New Cycle

Core Engage · Daedalic Entertainment · 2024-01-18

SteamGOG

IndieSimulationStrategyEarly Access

Modes: Single player

Releases: Jan 18, 2024 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

New Cycle is a city building game with focus on survival. After an apocalyptic series of solar flares, human society has been thrown into disarray. Establish a settlement and develop it all the way from humble beginnings to industrial metropolis.

24
playing now
79%
positive of 2.9k reviews
Mostly Positive
steam rating
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$29.99
steam price (US)

24 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 05:00 UTC (census sample)

New Cycle is set in the year 2073, after a series of solar flares deprived the world of all its technological advancements in the year 2034. The player must advance and manage a community of survivors who are looking for a way out of the chaos that civilization has been plunged into for the last four decades, while contending with the deteriorated, hostile atmosphere.(Storyline via IGDB)

Health check

Healthy
  • · 24 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 229 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~29/week).
  • · Review velocity down 19% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (821 reviews).
  • · Top 13% of 17,990 Indie games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-27

Estimated sales: 57k–129k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 2,860 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

lowest across shops (ITAD)$11.96-60%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $10.55 at GameBillet (2025-11-22) · bundled 3×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $29.99 · on sale 127 of 173 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
63963920242026Week of 2024-01-01: 639 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 182 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 159 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 43 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 212 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 65 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 85 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 26 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 69 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 95 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 20 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 40 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 20 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 43 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 61 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 68 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 29 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 70 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 16 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 72 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 41 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 45 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 20 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 21 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 38 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 43 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 5 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

3552026-08-11 19:00 — 23 players2026-08-12 11:00 — 16 players2026-08-13 03:00 — 5 players2026-08-13 19:00 — 22 players2026-08-14 10:00 — 18 players2026-08-15 02:00 — 15 players2026-08-15 18:00 — 32 players2026-08-16 10:00 — 26 players2026-08-17 02:00 — 14 players2026-08-17 18:00 — 20 players2026-08-18 10:00 — 15 players2026-08-19 01:00 — 17 players2026-08-19 17:00 — 22 players2026-08-20 09:00 — 13 players2026-08-21 01:00 — 18 players2026-08-21 16:00 — 26 players2026-08-22 08:00 — 17 players2026-08-23 00:00 — 20 players2026-08-23 16:00 — 35 players2026-08-24 07:00 — 10 players2026-08-24 23:00 — 19 players2026-08-25 15:00 — 25 players2026-08-26 07:00 — 6 players2026-08-27 00:00 — 27 players2026-08-27 13:00 — 12 players2026-08-28 05:00 — 15 players2026-08-28 21:00 — 18 players2026-08-29 13:00 — 24 players2026-08-30 05:00 — 24 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$99.99$9.382023-12-122026-08-212023-12-12 — best price $99.992024-01-26 — best price $25.492024-04-02 — best price $25.492024-05-03 — best price $23.992024-06-03 — best price $23.992024-06-27 — best price $22.492024-08-05 — best price $22.492024-09-06 — best price $23.952024-09-28 — best price $29.992024-10-22 — best price $25.492024-11-08 — best price $19.792024-11-26 — best price $29.992024-12-14 — best price $29.992025-01-07 — best price $19.792025-03-21 — best price $14.992025-04-18 — best price $19.792025-05-01 — best price $29.992025-06-03 — best price $29.992025-06-30 — best price $14.942025-07-22 — best price $13.002025-08-09 — best price $29.992025-08-23 — best price $14.992025-09-06 — best price $29.992025-09-30 — best price $14.942025-10-18 — best price $14.852025-10-29 — best price $29.992025-11-19 — best price $29.992025-12-01 — best price $29.092025-12-20 — best price $15.492026-01-12 — best price $29.992026-02-06 — best price $29.092026-03-18 — best price $22.492026-04-10 — best price $9.382026-05-02 — best price $29.992026-06-01 — best price $25.492026-06-16 — best price $14.992026-07-01 — best price $15.002026-07-17 — best price $24.872026-07-31 — best price $9.382026-08-21 — best price $11.96
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

55
achievements tracked
88.7%
earned "Acceptants"
33.3%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam Trading CardsSteam CloudFamily Sharing2 DLC

11 supported languages: English, Simplified Chinese, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Spanish - Spain, Polish

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)1,4501%55

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

Player tags

Sci-fiBuildingStrategySurvivalTop-DownRealisticColony SimSimulationCity BuilderEarly Access

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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