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New Cycle

Core Engage · Daedalic Entertainment · 2024-01-18

SteamGOG

IndieSimulationStrategyEarly Access

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Bird view / Isometric

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.

New Cycle is a 2024 Indie, Simulation, Strategy, and Early Access game priced at $29.99, with an estimated 100,000 to 200,000 owners and a Mostly Positive review sentiment (79% of 2867 reviews).

41
playing now
79%
positive of 2.9k reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unsupported
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Unsupported
$29.99
steam price (US)

41 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 14:00 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
  • · 41 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 5% of 49,572 Indie games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-27

Estimated sales: 57k–129k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 2,867 total reviews — how this is computed.

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

12-month high $29.99 · on sale 110 of 151 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

77132026-09-15 00:00 — 15 players2026-09-16 08:00 — 13 players2026-09-17 15:00 — 47 players2026-09-18 23:00 — 45 players2026-09-20 06:00 — 55 players2026-09-21 14:00 — 51 players2026-09-22 22:00 — 38 players2026-09-24 05:00 — 22 players2026-09-25 13:00 — 38 players2026-09-26 20:00 — 58 players2026-09-28 04:00 — 23 players2026-09-29 11:00 — 25 players2026-09-30 19:00 — 40 players2026-10-02 02:00 — 22 players2026-10-03 10:00 — 45 players2026-10-04 18:00 — 55 players2026-10-06 01:00 — 18 players2026-10-07 09:00 — 21 players2026-10-08 16:00 — 22 players2026-10-10 00:00 — 21 players2026-10-11 07:00 — 30 players2026-10-12 15:00 — 41 players2026-10-13 23:00 — 32 players2026-10-14 14:00 — 41 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
1.2k22Jan 2024Aug 2026Jan 2024 — avg 1,171 · peak 3,758Feb 2024 — avg 318 · peak 1,015Mar 2024 — avg 270 · peak 1,224Apr 2024 — avg 148 · peak 526May 2024 — avg 56 · peak 127Jun 2024 — avg 61 · peak 158Jul 2024 — avg 115 · peak 422Aug 2024 — avg 75 · peak 290Sep 2024 — avg 66 · peak 235Oct 2024 — avg 32 · peak 91Nov 2024 — avg 34 · peak 82Dec 2024 — avg 46 · peak 111Jan 2025 — avg 92 · peak 560Feb 2025 — avg 94 · peak 458Mar 2025 — avg 62 · peak 229Apr 2025 — avg 76 · peak 211May 2025 — avg 33 · peak 87Jun 2025 — avg 42 · peak 110Jul 2025 — avg 44 · peak 110Aug 2025 — avg 32 · peak 97Sep 2025 — avg 31 · peak 74Oct 2025 — avg 28 · peak 72Nov 2025 — avg 60 · peak 237Dec 2025 — avg 56 · peak 140Jan 2026 — avg 84 · peak 524Feb 2026 — avg 69 · peak 231Mar 2026 — avg 68 · peak 258Apr 2026 — avg 43 · peak 108May 2026 — avg 31 · peak 73Jun 2026 — avg 41 · peak 101Jul 2026 — avg 33 · peak 88Aug 2026 — avg 22 · peak 64
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

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

Post-launch support: 2 DLC released, first 2024-01-18 (Steam store data)

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.

Where its players are

Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.

Player tags

Sci-fiBuildingStrategySurvivalTop-DownRealisticColony SimSimulationCity BuilderEarly Access

Census log

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

Recent updates

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Similarity via IGDB.

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