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Pandora: First Contact cover art

Pandora: First Contact

Proxy Studios · Slitherine Ltd. · 2014-05-30

Steam

SimulationStrategy

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative

Releases: Apr 05, 2014 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Apr 05, 2014 (Mac), Apr 05, 2014 (Linux)

Pandora: First Contact is a science fiction 4X turn-based strategy game on a planetary scale. Our Earth has been exhausted and colonial attempts on other planetary bodies have been in vain. Finally, after decades of exploration, an interstellar probe has brought promise of a new world.

2
playing now
63%
positive of 645 reviews
Mixed
steam rating
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
50/100
IGDB user rating (2 ratings)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$29.99
steam price (US)

2 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 06:00 UTC (census sample)

Pandora: First Contact is a 2013 4X game developed by German company Proxy Studios and published by Slitherine Software. It is inspired by Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri and is about ideologically opposed factions from Earth who colonize a hostile planet.

Health check

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 39% of 6,703 Simulation games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 16k–39k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 645 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $4.49 at Fanatical (2024-06-17) · bundled 8×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $29.99 · on sale 25 of 50 observed days (census price snapshots)

Players online

502026-08-11 17:00 — 4 players2026-08-12 09:00 — 2 players2026-08-13 01:00 — 1 players2026-08-13 17:00 — 3 players2026-08-14 08:00 — 2 players2026-08-15 00:00 — 2 players2026-08-15 16:00 — 1 players2026-08-16 08:00 — 5 players2026-08-17 00:00 — 1 players2026-08-17 16:00 — 1 players2026-08-18 08:00 — 1 players2026-08-19 00:00 — 3 players2026-08-19 15:00 — 2 players2026-08-20 07:00 — 1 players2026-08-20 23:00 — 1 players2026-08-21 15:00 — 1 players2026-08-22 06:00 — 3 players2026-08-22 22:00 — 0 players2026-08-23 14:00 — 2 players2026-08-24 06:00 — 2 players2026-08-24 22:00 — 1 players2026-08-25 13:00 — 1 players2026-08-26 06:00 — 1 players2026-08-26 22:00 — 0 players2026-08-27 14:00 — 2 players2026-08-28 06:00 — 2 players2026-08-28 22:00 — 5 players2026-08-29 14:00 — 2 players2026-08-30 06:00 — 2 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$29.99$4.492015-01-012026-08-132015-01-01 — best price $19.792015-09-11 — best price $29.992016-05-18 — best price $14.992016-12-22 — best price $11.992017-05-25 — best price $29.992017-11-15 — best price $29.992018-02-27 — best price $7.492018-07-17 — best price $29.992018-11-28 — best price $29.992019-02-11 — best price $29.992019-05-20 — best price $29.992019-09-12 — best price $29.992020-01-02 — best price $29.992020-02-25 — best price $7.492020-05-07 — best price $14.992020-10-08 — best price $7.492021-01-05 — best price $29.992021-11-01 — best price $5.992022-02-21 — best price $29.992022-06-23 — best price $7.492022-11-04 — best price $29.992023-02-17 — best price $7.492023-05-08 — best price $8.392023-08-25 — best price $7.492023-11-21 — best price $7.492024-02-19 — best price $29.992024-06-17 — best price $4.492024-09-16 — best price $7.192024-11-22 — best price $8.092025-01-15 — best price $8.242025-04-07 — best price $29.992025-07-10 — best price $5.992025-09-29 — best price $4.792025-12-18 — best price $5.992026-03-26 — best price $29.992026-05-28 — best price $29.992026-08-13 — best price $10.49
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

1312026-05-31 — 7 pageviews2026-06-03 — 8 pageviews2026-06-06 — 4 pageviews2026-06-09 — 2 pageviews2026-06-12 — 5 pageviews2026-06-15 — 10 pageviews2026-06-18 — 7 pageviews2026-06-21 — 3 pageviews2026-06-24 — 4 pageviews2026-06-27 — 11 pageviews2026-06-30 — 7 pageviews2026-07-03 — 2 pageviews2026-07-06 — 3 pageviews2026-07-09 — 4 pageviews2026-07-12 — 3 pageviews2026-07-15 — 5 pageviews2026-07-18 — 7 pageviews2026-07-21 — 3 pageviews2026-07-24 — 4 pageviews2026-07-27 — 7 pageviews2026-07-30 — 3 pageviews2026-08-02 — 3 pageviews2026-08-05 — 5 pageviews2026-08-08 — 3 pageviews2026-08-11 — 6 pageviews2026-08-14 — 5 pageviews2026-08-17 — 2 pageviews2026-08-20 — 9 pageviews2026-08-23 — 2 pageviews2026-08-26 — 9 pageviews2026-08-28 — 3 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerMulti-playerPvPOnline PvPCo-opCross-Platform MultiplayerSteam AchievementsSteam CloudFamily Sharing1 DLC

4 supported languages: English, German, Italian, Dutch

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)1,1941%80

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

Player tags

4XSpaceAliensSci-fiHex GridStrategySimulationTurn-BasedMultiplayerReplay Value

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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