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Sad City 42 cover art

Sad City 42

Narko Games · 2017-12-28

Steam

ActionAdventureCasualIndieRPG

Modes: Single player

Releases: Dec 28, 2017 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Learn the story of a simple Russian Vlad, who is trying to survive in Russia.

Sad City 42 is a 2017 Action, Adventure, Casual, and Indie game priced at $0.99, with a Mostly Negative review sentiment (35% of 49 reviews) and an estimated owner base of 20,000 .. 50,000.

0
playing now
35%
positive of 49 reviews
Mostly Negative
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$0.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 09:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 8 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 27% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 52% of 27,649 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-02

All-time low: $0.37 at Steam (2023-03-27) · bundled 2×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $0.99 · on sale 3 of 7 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
3320172026Week of 2017-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2018-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2018-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

002026-09-15 10:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 18:00 — 0 players2026-09-18 01:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 09:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 16:00 — 0 players2026-09-22 00:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 08:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 15:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 23:00 — 0 players2026-09-27 06:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 14:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 21:00 — 0 players2026-10-01 05:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 12:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 20:00 — 0 players2026-10-05 04:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 12:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 19:00 — 0 players2026-10-09 03:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 10:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 18:00 — 0 players2026-10-13 01:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 09:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$4.99$0.372017-12-282026-07-092017-12-28 — best price $0.492018-03-12 — best price $0.592018-07-05 — best price $1.992018-10-29 — best price $0.492019-01-03 — best price $1.992019-03-11 — best price $0.492019-07-09 — best price $1.992019-10-28 — best price $0.492019-12-03 — best price $1.992020-02-03 — best price $0.492020-05-18 — best price $1.992020-08-31 — best price $0.492020-11-02 — best price $1.992021-01-25 — best price $0.492021-03-22 — best price $1.992021-07-12 — best price $0.492021-11-01 — best price $1.992022-01-17 — best price $0.492022-05-16 — best price $0.492022-07-18 — best price $1.992022-10-24 — best price $0.492022-12-12 — best price $1.992023-03-16 — best price $0.492023-05-15 — best price $1.992023-08-23 — best price $4.992023-11-28 — best price $0.992024-01-15 — best price $0.492024-03-21 — best price $0.992024-06-27 — best price $0.492024-11-04 — best price $0.992024-12-20 — best price $0.492025-03-10 — best price $0.992025-06-09 — best price $0.492025-07-28 — best price $0.992025-10-13 — best price $0.492026-03-26 — best price $0.992026-07-09 — best price $0.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerFamily Sharing

Player tags

RPGIndieActionCasualAdventureVisual Novel

Census log

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

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