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Primitive Society Simulator

YSH BigDove · YSH Games · 2024-02-26

Steam

IndieSimulationStrategyEarly Access

Modes: Single player

Releases: Feb 27, 2024 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

A colony-building game combined with grand strategy elements. Play as a tribal leader, guiding your people from the Stone Age to the Bronze Age. Survive, multiply, and compete for territory among ancient nations.

21
playing now
84%
positive of 754 reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$19.99
steam price (US)

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

Health check

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 29% of 17,990 Indie games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 15k–34k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 754 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

lowest across shops (ITAD)$19.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $15.99 at Steam (2024-09-30)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $19.99 · on sale 10 of 20 observed days (census price snapshots)

Players online

2832026-08-11 23:00 — 3 players2026-08-12 15:00 — 15 players2026-08-13 06:00 — 10 players2026-08-13 22:00 — 6 players2026-08-14 14:00 — 13 players2026-08-15 06:00 — 15 players2026-08-15 22:00 — 9 players2026-08-16 14:00 — 20 players2026-08-17 06:00 — 8 players2026-08-17 21:00 — 12 players2026-08-18 13:00 — 19 players2026-08-19 05:00 — 10 players2026-08-19 21:00 — 13 players2026-08-20 12:00 — 12 players2026-08-21 04:00 — 13 players2026-08-21 20:00 — 21 players2026-08-22 12:00 — 28 players2026-08-23 03:00 — 16 players2026-08-23 19:00 — 20 players2026-08-24 11:00 — 24 players2026-08-25 03:00 — 16 players2026-08-25 19:00 — 15 players2026-08-26 11:00 — 27 players2026-08-27 16:00 — 24 players2026-08-28 08:00 — 16 players2026-08-29 00:00 — 7 players2026-08-29 16:00 — 22 players2026-08-30 08:00 — 21 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$19.99$15.992024-02-272026-08-262024-02-27 — best price $17.992024-04-25 — best price $17.992024-06-03 — best price $17.992024-06-27 — best price $16.992024-08-19 — best price $16.992024-09-30 — best price $15.992024-11-27 — best price $15.992024-12-19 — best price $15.992025-01-27 — best price $15.992025-03-13 — best price $15.992025-03-24 — best price $15.992025-04-30 — best price $15.992025-06-13 — best price $15.992025-08-16 — best price $15.992025-09-29 — best price $15.992025-11-21 — best price $15.992025-12-18 — best price $15.992026-01-06 — best price $15.992026-02-12 — best price $15.992026-03-19 — best price $15.992026-04-27 — best price $15.992026-06-08 — best price $15.992026-06-25 — best price $15.992026-08-19 — best price $15.992026-08-26 — best price $19.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam CloudFamily Sharing

11 supported languages: Simplified Chinese, English, French, Japanese, Spanish - Spain, Portuguese - Brazil, Traditional Chinese, Russian, German, Italian, Korean

Player tags

3DWarSandboxTradingBuildingCraftingStrategySurvivalHistoricalManagement

Census log

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

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