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Polaris Sector

SoftWarWare · Slitherine Ltd. · 2016-03-22

Steam

SimulationStrategy

Modes: Single player

Releases: Mar 22, 2016 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Can anyone build an empire in a place like this? Other factions are naturally suspicious of newcomers and may wage war at the first sign of unidentified craft. Here, a natural death is an uncommon luxury.

6
playing now
72%
positive of 475 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam rating
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
75/100
critic score (1 outlets, IGDB)
50/100
IGDB user rating (4 ratings)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$39.99
steam price (US)

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

Health check

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 45% of 6,674 Simulation games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 12k–29k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 475 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $7.99 at Humble Store (2023-11-17)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $39.99 · on sale 14 of 27 observed days (census price snapshots)

Players online

1622026-08-11 18:00 — 9 players2026-08-12 10:00 — 2 players2026-08-13 01:00 — 7 players2026-08-13 17:00 — 6 players2026-08-14 09:00 — 7 players2026-08-15 01:00 — 4 players2026-08-15 17:00 — 9 players2026-08-16 09:00 — 8 players2026-08-17 01:00 — 7 players2026-08-17 16:00 — 9 players2026-08-18 08:00 — 5 players2026-08-19 00:00 — 9 players2026-08-19 16:00 — 6 players2026-08-20 07:00 — 8 players2026-08-20 23:00 — 9 players2026-08-21 15:00 — 16 players2026-08-22 07:00 — 5 players2026-08-22 22:00 — 10 players2026-08-23 14:00 — 11 players2026-08-24 06:00 — 6 players2026-08-24 22:00 — 9 players2026-08-25 14:00 — 5 players2026-08-26 06:00 — 2 players2026-08-26 22:00 — 6 players2026-08-27 14:00 — 8 players2026-08-28 06:00 — 6 players2026-08-28 22:00 — 10 players2026-08-29 14:00 — 8 players2026-08-30 06:00 — 6 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$39.99$7.992016-03-222026-08-132016-03-22 — best price $35.992016-08-29 — best price $29.992016-11-23 — best price $23.992017-03-09 — best price $23.992017-09-07 — best price $23.992017-11-16 — best price $14.792018-01-25 — best price $39.992018-07-05 — best price $39.992018-11-27 — best price $39.992019-02-11 — best price $39.992019-07-09 — best price $39.992019-09-12 — best price $39.992020-01-09 — best price $9.992020-04-13 — best price $9.992020-08-27 — best price $9.592020-12-01 — best price $39.992021-05-31 — best price $39.992021-12-01 — best price $39.992022-03-22 — best price $9.592022-07-29 — best price $13.992022-11-29 — best price $39.992023-02-24 — best price $39.992023-05-23 — best price $39.992023-08-28 — best price $9.592023-11-28 — best price $39.992024-03-21 — best price $39.992024-06-27 — best price $7.992024-09-19 — best price $11.992024-12-02 — best price $39.992025-01-20 — best price $7.992025-04-07 — best price $7.992025-07-10 — best price $7.992025-10-06 — best price $39.992026-02-26 — best price $39.992026-04-27 — best price $39.992026-06-11 — best price $39.992026-07-29 — best price $39.992026-08-13 — best price $9.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerFamily Sharing1 DLC

3 supported languages: English, Russian, Spanish - Spain

Player tags

4XSpaceAliensSci-fiWargameStrategyTacticalReal-TimeSimulationReplay Value

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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