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Pax Nova cover art

Pax Nova

Grey Wolf Entertainment · Iceberg Interactive · 2020-04-28

Steam

IndieStrategy

Modes: Single player

Releases: May 09, 2019 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

A sci-fi turn-based 4X strategy game where you lead the fate of one of several factions divided between three races. Explore new worlds and new star systems filled with exciting secrets as well as dangers. Build cities, expand your influence and fight great battles on land and in space.

56%
positive of 453 reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
50/100
IGDB user rating (2 ratings)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$24.99
steam price (US)
Pax Nova is a 4X turn-based strategy game developed by Portuguese studio GreyWolf Entertainment and published by Iceberg Interactive. It was released for Microsoft Windows on April 28, 2020.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 13 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity up 8% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (62 reviews).
  • · Top 27% of 27,754 Indie games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 9.1k–20k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 453 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

lowest across shops (ITAD)$4.49-82%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $3.70 at 2game (2022-11-18) · bundled 1×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $24.99 · on sale 47 of 69 observed days · $0.79 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
434320192026Week of 2019-05-01: 43 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 19 negativeWeek of 2019-06-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2019-08-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-11-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2020-02-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2020-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 2 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$24.99$3.732019-05-082026-09-142019-05-08 — best price $24.992019-07-21 — best price $20.422019-10-25 — best price $24.992020-01-04 — best price $21.242020-02-11 — best price $21.132020-04-23 — best price $24.992020-06-12 — best price $20.882020-07-31 — best price $16.242020-09-19 — best price $24.992020-10-29 — best price $18.362020-12-22 — best price $9.992021-02-08 — best price $9.992021-03-16 — best price $24.992021-05-04 — best price $24.992021-06-21 — best price $24.992021-08-18 — best price $8.772021-10-06 — best price $24.992021-12-02 — best price $6.252022-01-21 — best price $20.742022-03-24 — best price $4.992022-05-27 — best price $6.252022-08-09 — best price $3.832022-10-24 — best price $4.992022-12-12 — best price $4.992023-02-01 — best price $24.992023-05-01 — best price $4.992023-07-23 — best price $24.992023-10-24 — best price $21.132024-01-06 — best price $21.132024-04-05 — best price $21.242024-06-08 — best price $24.992024-08-08 — best price $21.242024-10-24 — best price $4.862025-01-11 — best price $21.132025-06-09 — best price $4.502025-10-13 — best price $4.492026-02-24 — best price $19.672026-07-13 — best price $4.502026-09-14 — best price $4.49
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

3102026-06-18 — 3 pageviews2026-06-21 — 3 pageviews2026-06-24 — 3 pageviews2026-06-27 — 6 pageviews2026-06-30 — 11 pageviews2026-07-03 — 8 pageviews2026-07-06 — 1 pageviews2026-07-09 — 5 pageviews2026-07-12 — 1 pageviews2026-07-15 — 4 pageviews2026-07-18 — 5 pageviews2026-07-21 — 2 pageviews2026-07-24 — 2 pageviews2026-07-27 — 3 pageviews2026-07-30 — 3 pageviews2026-08-02 — 5 pageviews2026-08-05 — 5 pageviews2026-08-08 — 5 pageviews2026-08-11 — 1 pageviews2026-08-14 — 1 pageviews2026-08-17 — 5 pageviews2026-08-20 — 2 pageviews2026-08-23 — 29 pageviews2026-08-26 — 6 pageviews2026-08-29 — 4 pageviews2026-09-01 — 5 pageviews2026-09-04 — 2 pageviews2026-09-07 — 6 pageviews2026-09-10 — 0 pageviews2026-09-13 — 1 pageviews2026-09-15 — 2 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

27
achievements tracked
67.2%
earned "Settling down"
5.8%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam Trading CardsSteam WorkshopFamily Sharing3 DLC

5 supported languages: English, German, French, Russian, Simplified Chinese

Post-launch support: 3 DLC released, first 2021-03-25, latest 2021-11-16 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)3100%27

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

Player tags

4XSpaceSci-fiBuildingMilitaryPoliticsStrategyManagementTurn-BasedExploration

Census log

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

Players also track

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Similarity via IGDB.

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