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Skyward Collapse cover art

Skyward Collapse

Arcen Games · 2013-05-23

Steam

IndieSimulationStrategy

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative · Perspectives: Bird view / Isometric

Releases: May 23, 2013 (Linux), May 23, 2013 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), May 23, 2013 (Mac)

How do you balance -- and indeed encourage -- a war between factions without letting either side obliterate the other? How do you rule over gods, creatures, and men who refuse to obey you? How do you build a landscape of villages when bandits and mythology are conspiring to tear it down?

Skyward Collapse is an Indie, Simulation, and Strategy game released in 2013, priced at $4.99, with an owner estimate of 100,000 .. 200,000 and a Mixed review sentiment (46% of 329 reviews).

0
playing now
46%
positive of 329 reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
50/100
IGDB user rating (1 ratings)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$4.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 16:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 9 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity up 80% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 20% of 49,602 Indie games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-01

Estimated sales: 13k–26k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 329 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

Steam$1.24-75%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $0.50 at GreenManGaming (2014-10-17) · bundled 13×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $4.99 · on sale 27 of 40 observed days · $0.74 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
101020132026Week of 2013-05-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2013-06-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2013-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2013-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2013-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2013-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2013-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2013-12-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2013-12-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2014-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2014-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2014-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2014-02-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2014-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2014-03-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2014-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2014-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2014-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2014-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2014-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2014-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2014-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2014-07-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2014-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2014-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2014-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2014-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2014-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2014-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2014-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2014-11-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2014-12-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2014-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2015-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2015-01-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2015-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2015-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2015-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2015-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2016-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2018-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

102026-09-15 01:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 09:00 — 0 players2026-09-17 17:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 00:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 08:00 — 0 players2026-09-21 16:00 — 0 players2026-09-22 23:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 07:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 14:00 — 0 players2026-09-26 22:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 05:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 13:00 — 0 players2026-09-30 20:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 04:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 11:00 — 0 players2026-10-04 19:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 03:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 10:00 — 0 players2026-10-08 18:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 01:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 09:00 — 0 players2026-10-12 17:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 00:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 16:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
1460May 2013Nov 2020May 2013 — avg 146 · peak 338Aug 2013 — avg 6 · peak 34Nov 2013 — avg 6 · peak 43Feb 2014 — avg 3 · peak 14May 2014 — avg 3 · peak 13Aug 2014 — avg 4 · peak 12Nov 2014 — avg 3 · peak 14Feb 2015 — avg 5 · peak 23May 2015 — avg 1 · peak 7Aug 2015 — avg 1 · peak 5Nov 2015 — avg 1 · peak 7Feb 2016 — avg 2 · peak 13May 2016 — avg 1 · peak 7Aug 2016 — avg 1 · peak 4Nov 2016 — avg 1 · peak 8Feb 2017 — avg 1 · peak 4May 2017 — avg 1 · peak 6Aug 2017 — avg 1 · peak 4Nov 2017 — avg 0 · peak 3Feb 2018 — avg 0 · peak 5May 2018 — avg 0 · peak 3Aug 2018 — avg 0 · peak 2Nov 2018 — avg 0 · peak 2Feb 2019 — avg 0 · peak 4May 2019 — avg 0 · peak 3Aug 2019 — avg 0 · peak 3Dec 2019 — avg 0 · peak 2Nov 2020 — avg 0 · peak 2

No change (0) in avg players vs prior month — Nov 2020

Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$4.99$1.002015-01-012026-10-142015-01-01 — best price $1.002015-07-16 — best price $4.992016-03-16 — best price $1.992016-09-12 — best price $4.992017-01-02 — best price $4.992017-08-09 — best price $1.252018-06-21 — best price $1.242019-07-09 — best price $4.992020-05-04 — best price $4.992020-06-18 — best price $4.992020-07-17 — best price $4.992020-08-23 — best price $4.492020-09-22 — best price $4.492020-10-28 — best price $4.992020-12-01 — best price $4.492021-01-02 — best price $4.142021-02-04 — best price $4.992021-03-07 — best price $4.992021-04-17 — best price $4.142021-05-19 — best price $4.142021-07-08 — best price $1.242021-10-11 — best price $4.142022-01-24 — best price $1.002022-05-17 — best price $4.142022-12-17 — best price $3.662023-07-17 — best price $1.242024-02-26 — best price $1.242024-08-01 — best price $3.662024-12-19 — best price $1.242025-05-10 — best price $3.662025-11-21 — best price $1.132026-06-19 — best price $1.032026-10-14 — best price $1.24
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

60+
achievements tracked
13.9%
earned "Singasteinn"
3.2%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxSingle-playerMulti-playerCo-opOnline Co-opLAN Co-opCross-Platform MultiplayerSteam AchievementsSteam Trading CardsFamily Sharing1 DLC

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2013-08-27 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)1,4702%80

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

Player tags

IndieFantasyGod GameStrategyIsometricMythologySimulationTurn-BasedExperimentalTurn-Based Combat

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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