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Prime Mover cover art

Prime Mover

4Bit Games · 2018-05-21

Steam

IndieSimulation

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Bird view / Isometric

Releases: May 21, 2018 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Retrace the path of the Prime Mover to uncover the story of the Byte of Burden! Prime Mover is an open-ended puzzle game about designing circuit boards.

88%
positive of 218 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
70/100
IGDB user rating (3 ratings)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$2.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 11 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity up 38% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 27% of 41,339 Indie games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 5.5k–13k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 218 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

lowest across shops (ITAD)$2.99-80%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $2.99 at Steam (2020-08-21)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $14.99 · on sale 3 of 6 observed days · at its all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
262620182026Week of 2018-05-01: 26 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-06-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-08-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-12-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-06-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2020-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-10-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$14.99$2.992018-05-222026-10-012018-05-22 — best price $14.992018-07-05 — best price $14.992018-09-18 — best price $14.992018-11-19 — best price $14.992018-11-27 — best price $14.992019-01-03 — best price $14.992019-03-22 — best price $14.992019-06-04 — best price $14.992019-07-09 — best price $14.992019-09-23 — best price $14.992019-11-01 — best price $14.992019-12-03 — best price $14.992020-01-02 — best price $14.992020-03-31 — best price $14.992020-07-09 — best price $14.992020-09-04 — best price $14.992020-11-02 — best price $14.992020-12-01 — best price $14.992021-01-05 — best price $14.992021-07-08 — best price $14.992021-11-01 — best price $14.992021-12-01 — best price $14.992022-01-05 — best price $14.992022-07-07 — best price $14.992023-01-05 — best price $14.992023-03-23 — best price $14.992023-07-13 — best price $14.992023-11-28 — best price $14.992024-01-04 — best price $14.992024-07-11 — best price $14.992025-07-10 — best price $14.992025-10-06 — best price $14.992026-05-18 — best price $14.992026-07-09 — best price $14.992026-10-01 — best price $2.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

16
achievements tracked
85.5%
earned "Thinker"
23.9%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam Trading CardsSteam CloudSteam LeaderboardsFamily Sharing1 DLC

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2018-06-18 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)8332%16

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

Player tags

IndieLogicPuzzleSci-fiScienceDifficultEducationSimulationProgrammingSingleplayer

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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