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Playing History 2 - Slave Trade

Serious Games Interactive · My Way Games · 2015-08-27

Steam

AdventureCasualIndie

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Side view

Releases: Sep 13, 2013 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Sep 13, 2013 (Mac)

Travel back in time and witness the horrors of slave trade firsthand. You will be working as young slave steward on a ship crossing the Atlantic. You are to serve the captain and be his eyes and ears. What do you do, when you realize that your own sister has been captured by the slave traders?

Playing History 2 - Slave Trade is an Adventure, Casual and Indie game released in 2015, priced at $4.99, with Mixed (63% of 329 reviews) sentiment and an estimated 50,000 .. 100,000 owners.

2
playing now
63%
positive of 329 reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
50/100
IGDB user rating (0 ratings)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$4.99
steam price (US)

2 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 18:00 UTC (census sample)

Playing History 2 - Slave Trade is a game developed and published by Serious Games Interactive, and released on September 13, 2013, for Windows and Mac OS X on the Steam platform. The game is intended to be an "edutainment" experience, teaching players about the Atlantic slave trade.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 2 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 18 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity down 38% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 24% of 28,693 Adventure games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-01

Estimated sales: 8.2k–20k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 329 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.37 at Steam (2023-06-30) · bundled 5×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $4.99 · on sale 8 of 16 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
7720162026Week of 2016-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2016-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 4 negativeWeek 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.

Players online

702026-09-15 04:00 — 1 players2026-09-16 12:00 — 0 players2026-09-17 19:00 — 2 players2026-09-19 03:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 10:00 — 1 players2026-09-21 18:00 — 2 players2026-09-23 02:00 — 5 players2026-09-24 09:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 17:00 — 1 players2026-09-27 00:00 — 1 players2026-09-28 08:00 — 1 players2026-09-29 15:00 — 0 players2026-09-30 23:00 — 2 players2026-10-02 06:00 — 1 players2026-10-03 14:00 — 0 players2026-10-04 22:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 05:00 — 1 players2026-10-07 13:00 — 2 players2026-10-08 20:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 04:00 — 1 players2026-10-11 11:00 — 0 players2026-10-12 19:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 03:00 — 1 players2026-10-14 18:00 — 2 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$4.99$0.372015-08-272026-08-032015-08-27 — best price $3.742016-07-04 — best price $4.992016-12-22 — best price $0.992017-07-05 — best price $4.992017-11-22 — best price $1.242018-01-04 — best price $4.992020-03-12 — best price $1.992023-06-30 — best price $0.372023-08-04 — best price $1.992023-11-28 — best price $4.992024-01-05 — best price $0.492024-03-02 — best price $4.992024-04-01 — best price $0.492024-05-30 — best price $4.992024-07-13 — best price $0.492024-09-09 — best price $4.992024-11-27 — best price $0.492025-01-02 — best price $4.992025-03-13 — best price $0.492025-05-18 — best price $4.992025-09-06 — best price $0.492025-10-06 — best price $4.992025-12-05 — best price $0.492026-01-31 — best price $4.992026-04-23 — best price $0.492026-06-20 — best price $4.992026-07-20 — best price $0.542026-08-03 — best price $4.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

3762026-06-01 — 16 pageviews2026-06-05 — 20 pageviews2026-06-09 — 8 pageviews2026-06-13 — 23 pageviews2026-06-17 — 16 pageviews2026-06-21 — 12 pageviews2026-06-25 — 14 pageviews2026-06-29 — 12 pageviews2026-07-03 — 18 pageviews2026-07-07 — 16 pageviews2026-07-11 — 10 pageviews2026-07-15 — 15 pageviews2026-07-19 — 12 pageviews2026-07-23 — 19 pageviews2026-07-27 — 13 pageviews2026-07-31 — 7 pageviews2026-08-04 — 8 pageviews2026-08-08 — 6 pageviews2026-08-12 — 12 pageviews2026-08-16 — 12 pageviews2026-08-20 — 15 pageviews2026-08-24 — 14 pageviews2026-08-28 — 10 pageviews2026-09-01 — 18 pageviews2026-09-05 — 37 pageviews2026-09-09 — 15 pageviews2026-09-13 — 6 pageviews2026-09-17 — 23 pageviews2026-09-21 — 31 pageviews2026-09-25 — 6 pageviews2026-09-29 — 14 pageviews2026-10-03 — 13 pageviews2026-10-07 — 12 pageviews2026-10-10 — 13 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

8
achievements tracked
3.9%
earned "To Africa"
1.5%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam Trading CardsFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)52351%8

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

Player tags

IndieMemesCasualAdventureEducationHistoricalIlluminatiSingleplayerThird PersonPoint & Click

Census log

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

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