The Game Census
Plant Tycoon cover art

Plant Tycoon

Last Day of Work · 2008-05-12

Steam

CasualSimulation

Modes: Single player

Releases: Sep 27, 2007 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Plant Tycoon is a gardening sim game where you nurture plants and experiment with increasingly rare and valuable species. The object is to breed and cross breed plants until you find the 6 Magic Plants of Isola and solve the genetic puzzle. You start with a couple of dollars, a handful of seeds, some soil and water.

Plant Tycoon is a Casual, Simulation game released in 2008, priced at $9.99, with an estimated 20,000 .. 50,000 owners and Very Positive (94% of 228 reviews).

7
playing now
94%
positive of 228 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
61/100
IGDB user rating (6 ratings)
3
Nexus mods (30 downloads)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$9.99
steam price (US)

7 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 07:00 UTC (census sample)

Plant Tycoon is a life simulation game about the breeding and growing of plants, published by independent developer Last Day of Work.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 7 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 16 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity up 23% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 20% of 29,032 Casual games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-01

Estimated sales: 9.1k–18k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 228 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $2.49 at Steam (2012-11-22)via IsThereAnyDeal

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
4420152026Week of 2015-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2015-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2015-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 2 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

1532026-09-15 08:00 — 7 players2026-09-16 16:00 — 11 players2026-09-17 23:00 — 13 players2026-09-19 07:00 — 8 players2026-09-20 14:00 — 14 players2026-09-21 22:00 — 12 players2026-09-23 06:00 — 4 players2026-09-24 13:00 — 9 players2026-09-25 21:00 — 6 players2026-09-27 04:00 — 7 players2026-09-28 12:00 — 6 players2026-09-29 19:00 — 7 players2026-10-01 03:00 — 6 players2026-10-02 10:00 — 5 players2026-10-03 18:00 — 14 players2026-10-05 02:00 — 12 players2026-10-06 10:00 — 10 players2026-10-07 17:00 — 7 players2026-10-09 01:00 — 3 players2026-10-10 08:00 — 6 players2026-10-11 16:00 — 13 players2026-10-12 23:00 — 9 players2026-10-14 07:00 — 7 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
142Jul 2012Aug 2026Jul 2012 — avg 7 · peak 15Dec 2012 — avg 5 · peak 21May 2013 — avg 3 · peak 11Oct 2013 — avg 3 · peak 10Mar 2014 — avg 3 · peak 11Aug 2014 — avg 4 · peak 14Jan 2015 — avg 4 · peak 14Jun 2015 — avg 3 · peak 9Nov 2015 — avg 4 · peak 10Apr 2016 — avg 3 · peak 14Sep 2016 — avg 3 · peak 10Feb 2017 — avg 6 · peak 13Jul 2017 — avg 4 · peak 11Dec 2017 — avg 5 · peak 14May 2018 — avg 4 · peak 12Oct 2018 — avg 4 · peak 12Mar 2019 — avg 4 · peak 12Aug 2019 — avg 4 · peak 13Jan 2020 — avg 6 · peak 20Jun 2020 — avg 7 · peak 20Nov 2020 — avg 7 · peak 16Apr 2021 — avg 11 · peak 21Sep 2021 — avg 10 · peak 19Feb 2022 — avg 9 · peak 21Jul 2022 — avg 12 · peak 22Dec 2022 — avg 11 · peak 22May 2023 — avg 13 · peak 23Oct 2023 — avg 9 · peak 19Mar 2024 — avg 13 · peak 25Aug 2024 — avg 10 · peak 21Jan 2025 — avg 8 · peak 17Jun 2025 — avg 10 · peak 20Nov 2025 — avg 8 · peak 17Apr 2026 — avg 9 · peak 20Aug 2026 — avg 9 · peak 19
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$23.74$0.002015-01-012020-01-042015-01-01 — best price $9.992015-01-28 — best price $13.492015-04-04 — best price $15.952015-04-20 — best price $23.742015-04-29 — best price $15.952015-05-07 — best price $15.952015-06-03 — best price $15.952015-09-15 — best price $14.952015-12-18 — best price $3.732016-02-23 — best price $7.472016-04-04 — best price $14.952016-06-17 — best price $7.472016-11-30 — best price $14.952017-02-14 — best price $7.472017-05-20 — best price $7.472017-07-17 — best price $14.952017-11-22 — best price $7.472017-12-04 — best price $14.952018-01-19 — best price $7.472018-03-19 — best price $14.952018-05-04 — best price $7.472018-06-04 — best price $14.952018-08-24 — best price $7.472018-08-30 — best price $7.472018-09-24 — best price $14.952018-10-26 — best price $7.472018-12-01 — best price $14.952019-02-15 — best price $7.472019-03-11 — best price $14.952019-05-24 — best price $7.472019-07-01 — best price $14.952019-08-09 — best price $7.472019-10-12 — best price $14.952019-12-20 — best price $7.472020-01-04 — best price $14.95
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

1602026-06-01 — 9 pageviews2026-06-05 — 8 pageviews2026-06-09 — 7 pageviews2026-06-13 — 3 pageviews2026-06-17 — 9 pageviews2026-06-21 — 3 pageviews2026-06-25 — 5 pageviews2026-06-29 — 8 pageviews2026-07-03 — 11 pageviews2026-07-07 — 9 pageviews2026-07-11 — 13 pageviews2026-07-15 — 8 pageviews2026-07-19 — 16 pageviews2026-07-23 — 9 pageviews2026-07-27 — 3 pageviews2026-07-31 — 6 pageviews2026-08-04 — 2 pageviews2026-08-08 — 1 pageviews2026-08-12 — 7 pageviews2026-08-16 — 5 pageviews2026-08-20 — 3 pageviews2026-08-24 — 5 pageviews2026-08-28 — 6 pageviews2026-09-01 — 3 pageviews2026-09-05 — 4 pageviews2026-09-09 — 5 pageviews2026-09-13 — 6 pageviews2026-09-17 — 13 pageviews2026-09-21 — 5 pageviews2026-09-25 — 1 pageviews2026-09-29 — 6 pageviews2026-10-03 — 5 pageviews2026-10-07 — 10 pageviews2026-10-11 — 5 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Player tags

CasualManagementSimulationSingleplayer

Census log

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

Players also track

Ride! Carnival TycoonTransOcean: The Shipping CompanyProject AURASoftware Inc.Judgment: Apocalypse Survival SimulationHardware EngineersAnother Brick in The MallMashinky

Similarity via IGDB.

Official site ↗Wikipedia ↗