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New Star™ Soccer 5 cover art

New Star™ Soccer 5

New Star Games · 2012-09-27

Steam

IndieSimulationSports

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

Releases: Aug 11, 2011 (Mac), Aug 11, 2011 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Live the life of an up-and-coming superstar in this unique football career game. Start out as a 16 year old lad and work your way to the top to become a footballing legend!

New Star™ Soccer 5 is an Indie, Simulation, and Sports game released in 2012, priced at $9.99, with an estimated 100,000 .. 200,000 owners and a Mostly Positive review sentiment (70% of 878 reviews).

3
playing now
70%
positive of 878 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
60/100
IGDB user rating (6 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$9.99
steam price (US)

3 players in-game as of 2026-10-15 07:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 3 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 38 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~5/week).
  • · Review velocity up 65% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 11% of 50,067 Indie games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-31

Estimated sales: 35k–70k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 878 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $1.00 at Fanatical (2014-08-14) · bundled 2×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $9.99 · on sale 1 of 2 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
373720172026Week of 2017-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2018-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2018-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2018-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2019-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-09-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2019-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-12-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-03-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 37 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 23 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

902026-09-15 16:00 — 5 players2026-09-17 00:00 — 4 players2026-09-18 08:00 — 1 players2026-09-19 15:00 — 9 players2026-09-20 23:00 — 4 players2026-09-22 07:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 14:00 — 4 players2026-09-24 22:00 — 2 players2026-09-26 05:00 — 0 players2026-09-27 13:00 — 3 players2026-09-28 20:00 — 5 players2026-09-30 04:00 — 3 players2026-10-01 11:00 — 1 players2026-10-02 19:00 — 7 players2026-10-04 03:00 — 2 players2026-10-05 10:00 — 2 players2026-10-06 18:00 — 1 players2026-10-08 01:00 — 1 players2026-10-09 09:00 — 1 players2026-10-10 16:00 — 0 players2026-10-12 00:00 — 3 players2026-10-13 08:00 — 2 players2026-10-14 15:00 — 4 players2026-10-15 07:00 — 3 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
281Oct 2012Aug 2026Oct 2012 — avg 28 · peak 116Mar 2013 — avg 18 · peak 89Aug 2013 — avg 5 · peak 18Jan 2014 — avg 7 · peak 35Jun 2014 — avg 11 · peak 64Nov 2014 — avg 5 · peak 16Apr 2015 — avg 6 · peak 20Sep 2015 — avg 5 · peak 21Feb 2016 — avg 3 · peak 11Jul 2016 — avg 5 · peak 15Dec 2016 — avg 3 · peak 14May 2017 — avg 3 · peak 10Oct 2017 — avg 2 · peak 11Mar 2018 — avg 2 · peak 9Aug 2018 — avg 2 · peak 9Jan 2019 — avg 2 · peak 9Jun 2019 — avg 2 · peak 8Nov 2019 — avg 5 · peak 19Apr 2020 — avg 7 · peak 21Sep 2020 — avg 7 · peak 19Feb 2021 — avg 7 · peak 21Jul 2021 — avg 6 · peak 22Dec 2021 — avg 5 · peak 16May 2022 — avg 6 · peak 19Oct 2022 — avg 6 · peak 23Mar 2023 — avg 8 · peak 24Aug 2023 — avg 11 · peak 26Jan 2024 — avg 7 · peak 22Jun 2024 — avg 8 · peak 21Nov 2024 — avg 6 · peak 17Apr 2025 — avg 5 · peak 15Sep 2025 — avg 5 · peak 13Feb 2026 — avg 4 · peak 11Jul 2026 — avg 7 · peak 18Aug 2026 — avg 5 · peak 14
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$14.99$1.002015-01-012026-06-152015-01-01 — best price $12.992015-04-02 — best price $1.002015-04-10 — best price $14.992016-06-09 — best price $3.742016-06-13 — best price $14.992019-07-22 — best price $9.992019-08-01 — best price $4.992019-08-15 — best price $9.992020-02-21 — best price $9.992020-06-25 — best price $3.392020-07-09 — best price $9.992020-08-13 — best price $3.492020-08-17 — best price $9.992020-10-29 — best price $4.992020-11-02 — best price $9.992020-11-25 — best price $4.992020-12-01 — best price $9.992020-12-22 — best price $4.992021-01-05 — best price $9.992022-12-15 — best price $2.492022-12-19 — best price $9.992023-05-15 — best price $2.492023-05-22 — best price $9.992026-06-08 — best price $2.992026-06-15 — best price $9.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

60+
achievements tracked
80.8%
earned "Premium Account"
26.3%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsPartial Controller SupportFamily Sharing

10 supported languages: English, Italian, Polish, Dutch, Turkish, Portuguese - Brazil, French, German, Portuguese - Portugal, Spanish - Spain

Player tags

IndieSportsSimulationFootball (Soccer)

Census log

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

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