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Progress Bar Simulator cover art

Progress Bar Simulator

SpielmannSpiel · 2019-04-04

Steam

CasualIndieSimulation

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative, Split screen · Perspectives: Side view

Releases: Apr 01, 2019 (Linux), Apr 01, 2019 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Ever wanted to accelerate the progress bar of your download, slow installation, Windows update or just to kill some time until something else has finished? Then here comes the game you never asked for: Progress Bar: The Game

88%
positive of 102 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
$0.99
steam price (US)

Progress, the final frontier The Progress Bar Simulator (german Fortschrittsbalkensimulator or Ladeleistensimulator) is a loading bar simulator game where you can emerge yourself in the history of loading screens.(Storyline via IGDB)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 11 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity up 10% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 47% of 14,258 Casual games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 2.5k–6.1k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 102 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.49 at Steam (2020-03-19)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $0.99 · on sale 4 of 8 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
121220192026Week of 2019-04-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-12-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$0.99$0.492019-04-042026-07-092019-04-04 — best price $0.842019-06-26 — best price $0.892019-10-28 — best price $0.762019-11-26 — best price $0.842019-12-19 — best price $0.742020-01-23 — best price $0.742020-03-19 — best price $0.492020-06-25 — best price $0.742020-08-22 — best price $0.842020-10-29 — best price $0.742020-11-25 — best price $0.842020-12-22 — best price $0.742021-02-11 — best price $0.742021-06-24 — best price $0.742021-11-24 — best price $0.792021-12-22 — best price $0.792022-06-23 — best price $0.842022-11-22 — best price $0.842022-12-22 — best price $0.742023-03-16 — best price $0.842023-06-29 — best price $0.842023-12-04 — best price $0.742024-01-04 — best price $0.992024-02-19 — best price $0.992024-03-21 — best price $0.992024-07-11 — best price $0.992024-12-04 — best price $0.992025-01-02 — best price $0.992025-02-10 — best price $0.992025-03-20 — best price $0.992025-07-10 — best price $0.992025-10-06 — best price $0.992026-01-05 — best price $0.992026-03-26 — best price $0.992026-07-09 — best price $0.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

38
achievements tracked
97.7%
earned "BOOT UP"
11.9%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsLinuxSingle-playerMulti-playerPvPShared/Split Screen PvPCo-opShared/Split Screen Co-opSteam AchievementsSteam CloudRemote Play TogetherFamily Sharing2 DLC

1 supported languages: English

Player tags

FunnyIdlerSatireClickerParody SurrealLife SimRelaxingCyberpunkHistorical

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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