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Ocean Is Home : Island Life Simulator

BirdyDog Studio · 2022-12-09

Steam

ActionAdventureIndieRacingRPGSimulationEarly Access

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: First person

Releases: Dec 09, 2022 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Dec 09, 2022 (Mac), Dec 09, 2022 (Linux)

Ocean is Home is an island life simulator and an open world adventure rolled into one. Starting with a small house and an old pickup truck, you can build an estate and become a significant person in a warm tropical paradise.

63%
positive of 150 reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
Verified
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$9.99
steam price (US)

Explore a large island that has become your new home. Get resources on the island and use them to build your house. Earn money and expand your estate, buy new furniture and renovate your house - everything is available from painting the walls and wallpapering to installing your own elevator. Buy new cars for the convenience of moving around the island and earning money. The game world is saturated with the spirit of old America. This is a very cozy place where it is pleasant to be and everyone will find something for themselves.(Storyline via IGDB)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 13 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity down 43% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 45% of 18,278 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 3.0k–6.8k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 150 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $6.99 at Steam (2023-03-16)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $9.99 · on sale 0 of 1 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
252520222026Week of 2022-12-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$14.99$0.002021-03-272026-02-272021-03-27 — best price $0.002022-12-09 — best price $11.992022-12-16 — best price $14.992023-01-15 — best price $11.992023-01-29 — best price $14.992023-02-03 — best price $9.992023-02-28 — best price $7.492023-03-14 — best price $9.992023-03-16 — best price $6.992023-03-23 — best price $9.992023-06-29 — best price $7.992023-07-13 — best price $9.992023-07-14 — best price $14.992023-08-14 — best price $7.492023-08-21 — best price $14.992023-09-25 — best price $7.492023-10-02 — best price $14.992023-11-21 — best price $7.492023-11-28 — best price $14.992023-12-21 — best price $7.492024-01-04 — best price $14.992024-01-08 — best price $10.492024-01-15 — best price $14.992024-04-08 — best price $7.492024-04-15 — best price $14.992024-05-20 — best price $7.492024-05-27 — best price $14.992024-06-27 — best price $7.492024-07-11 — best price $14.992024-11-27 — best price $10.492024-12-04 — best price $14.992024-12-19 — best price $7.492025-01-02 — best price $14.992026-02-27 — best price $9.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsmacOSSingle-playerSteam CloudFamily Sharing

14 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Portuguese - Portugal, Russian, Spanish - Latin America…

Player tags

1980s1990'sActionAmericaDrivingSandboxBuildingCraftingSurvivalAdventure

Census log

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

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