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江城创业记 River Town Factory cover art

江城创业记 River Town Factory

iFAction Studio · 2024-02-06

Steam

IndieRPGSimulation

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Bird view / Isometric

Releases: Feb 07, 2024 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

If possible, would you like to go back to ancient times to start a factory, refine oil, or even build a large computer? With the accidental fall of a meteorite, you traveled back to River Town a thousand years ago and became a workshop owner. And the story will begin from here……

江城创业记 River Town Factory is an Indie, RPG, and Simulation game released in 2024, priced at $14.99, with an estimated 50,000 to 100,000 owners and a Very Positive review sentiment (89% of 1356 reviews).

39
playing now
89%
positive of 1.4k reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
silver
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Verified
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$14.99
steam price (US)

39 players in-game as of 2026-10-15 09:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Cooling
  • · 39 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 37 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~5/week).
  • · Review velocity down 57% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (398 reviews).
  • · Top 9% of 50,282 Indie games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-31

Estimated sales: 27k–61k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 1,356 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $8.69 at Steam (2026-09-08)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $14.99 · on sale 8 of 16 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
35735720232026Week of 2023-03-01: 62 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 357 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 41 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 37 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 26 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 145 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 23 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 71 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 54 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 28 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 29 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

11372026-09-15 18:00 — 25 players2026-09-17 02:00 — 31 players2026-09-18 10:00 — 41 players2026-09-19 17:00 — 26 players2026-09-21 01:00 — 22 players2026-09-22 09:00 — 42 players2026-09-23 16:00 — 23 players2026-09-25 00:00 — 16 players2026-09-26 07:00 — 48 players2026-09-27 15:00 — 63 players2026-09-28 22:00 — 7 players2026-09-30 06:00 — 23 players2026-10-01 13:00 — 48 players2026-10-02 21:00 — 13 players2026-10-04 05:00 — 47 players2026-10-05 12:00 — 89 players2026-10-06 20:00 — 27 players2026-10-08 03:00 — 40 players2026-10-09 11:00 — 70 players2026-10-10 18:00 — 37 players2026-10-12 02:00 — 28 players2026-10-13 10:00 — 49 players2026-10-14 17:00 — 38 players2026-10-15 09:00 — 39 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
37122Apr 2023Aug 2026Apr 2023 — avg 350 · peak 1,112Jun 2023 — avg 49 · peak 145Aug 2023 — avg 55 · peak 158Oct 2023 — avg 39 · peak 98Dec 2023 — avg 51 · peak 117Feb 2024 — avg 371 · peak 1,095Apr 2024 — avg 166 · peak 439Jun 2024 — avg 60 · peak 158Aug 2024 — avg 56 · peak 136Oct 2024 — avg 56 · peak 149Dec 2024 — avg 57 · peak 162Feb 2025 — avg 50 · peak 122Apr 2025 — avg 47 · peak 117Jun 2025 — avg 53 · peak 154Aug 2025 — avg 36 · peak 93Oct 2025 — avg 27 · peak 69Dec 2025 — avg 23 · peak 64Feb 2026 — avg 27 · peak 57Apr 2026 — avg 25 · peak 64Jun 2026 — avg 27 · peak 65Aug 2026 — avg 28 · peak 85
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$14.99$8.842023-03-312026-08-032023-03-31 — best price $10.792023-05-07 — best price $10.672023-06-30 — best price $10.192023-07-25 — best price $10.192023-09-21 — best price $10.192023-11-07 — best price $10.192023-11-28 — best price $11.992024-01-04 — best price $14.992024-02-20 — best price $14.992024-03-21 — best price $14.992024-04-10 — best price $14.992024-05-27 — best price $14.992024-07-11 — best price $14.992024-08-08 — best price $14.992024-10-08 — best price $14.992024-11-25 — best price $14.992024-12-04 — best price $14.992025-01-02 — best price $14.992025-02-10 — best price $14.992025-03-20 — best price $14.992025-04-22 — best price $14.992025-06-26 — best price $14.992025-07-10 — best price $14.992025-08-10 — best price $14.992025-09-27 — best price $14.992025-10-06 — best price $14.992025-11-11 — best price $14.992026-01-05 — best price $14.992026-02-23 — best price $14.992026-03-26 — best price $14.992026-05-05 — best price $14.992026-06-18 — best price $14.992026-07-09 — best price $14.992026-08-03 — best price $14.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

35
achievements tracked
88.2%
earned "Time Traveler"
12.7%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam WorkshopSteam CloudFamily Sharing

8 supported languages: Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, English, Japanese, German, Russian, Portuguese - Brazil, Portuguese - Portugal

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)3981%35

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

Player tags

2DIndieSci-fiSandboxBuildingAutomationOpen WorldSimulationStory RichTime Travel

Census log

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

Recent updates

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