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SteamWorld Build

The Station · Thunderful Publishing · 2023-12-01

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SimulationStrategy

Modes: Single player

Releases: Dec 01, 2023 (Nintendo Switch), Dec 01, 2023 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Dec 01, 2023 (PlayStation 4), Dec 01, 2023 (PlayStation 5), Dec 01, 2023 (Xbox One), Dec 01, 2023 (Xbox Series X|S)

SteamWorld Build is a casual city-building and dungeon-management cross-over set in the SteamWorld Universe, where you build and manage a town on a dying planet. You'll need to balance resources, construction, and exploration to its depths to ensure your town's survival and eventual escape.

27
playing now
85%
positive of 2.3k reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
77/100
critic score (3 outlets, IGDB)
70/100
IGDB user rating (18 ratings)
8.2h
time to beat (IGDB)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$24.99
steam price (US)

27 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 05:00 UTC (census sample)

SteamWorld Build is a city-building dungeon crawling video game developed by The Station and published by Thunderful Publishing. An installment in the SteamWorld series, the game was released for Windows, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X and Series S in December 2023.

Health check

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 21% of 6,674 Simulation games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 45k–101k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 2,254 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

GOG$4.99-80%
GOG$4.99-80%
lowest across shops (ITAD)$4.99-80%
GreenManGaming$5.00-80%
Microsoft Store$29.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $2.87 at Fanatical (2026-03-09) · bundled 7×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $29.99 · on sale 138 of 140 observed days · $2.12 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Players online

4072026-08-11 19:00 — 26 players2026-08-12 11:00 — 7 players2026-08-13 03:00 — 13 players2026-08-13 19:00 — 21 players2026-08-14 10:00 — 21 players2026-08-15 02:00 — 17 players2026-08-15 18:00 — 38 players2026-08-16 10:00 — 30 players2026-08-17 02:00 — 23 players2026-08-17 18:00 — 30 players2026-08-18 10:00 — 19 players2026-08-19 01:00 — 14 players2026-08-19 17:00 — 23 players2026-08-20 09:00 — 17 players2026-08-21 01:00 — 20 players2026-08-21 16:00 — 33 players2026-08-22 08:00 — 25 players2026-08-23 00:00 — 24 players2026-08-23 16:00 — 39 players2026-08-24 07:00 — 13 players2026-08-24 23:00 — 27 players2026-08-25 15:00 — 24 players2026-08-26 07:00 — 25 players2026-08-27 00:00 — 16 players2026-08-27 15:00 — 31 players2026-08-28 07:00 — 12 players2026-08-28 21:00 — 29 players2026-08-29 13:00 — 40 players2026-08-30 05:00 — 27 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$29.99$3.242023-12-012026-08-302023-12-01 — best price $23.992024-01-21 — best price $29.992024-02-20 — best price $22.492024-03-20 — best price $22.492024-04-16 — best price $17.492024-05-14 — best price $20.992024-06-17 — best price $12.492024-07-18 — best price $14.992024-08-16 — best price $24.992024-09-12 — best price $13.742024-10-18 — best price $12.502024-11-14 — best price $12.492024-12-12 — best price $12.492025-01-09 — best price $9.192025-02-06 — best price $17.992025-03-10 — best price $6.242025-04-17 — best price $7.492025-05-19 — best price $5.742025-06-20 — best price $4.742025-07-25 — best price $3.402025-09-04 — best price $6.242025-09-29 — best price $6.242025-10-23 — best price $10.492025-11-14 — best price $4.852025-12-04 — best price $29.992026-01-08 — best price $24.992026-02-03 — best price $24.992026-02-28 — best price $6.242026-03-25 — best price $24.992026-04-12 — best price $5.002026-05-11 — best price $3.742026-06-11 — best price $24.992026-07-30 — best price $24.992026-08-12 — best price $4.992026-08-30 — best price $4.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

3862026-05-30 — 14 pageviews2026-06-02 — 26 pageviews2026-06-05 — 21 pageviews2026-06-08 — 34 pageviews2026-06-11 — 17 pageviews2026-06-14 — 17 pageviews2026-06-17 — 9 pageviews2026-06-20 — 6 pageviews2026-06-23 — 10 pageviews2026-06-26 — 16 pageviews2026-06-29 — 19 pageviews2026-07-02 — 17 pageviews2026-07-05 — 14 pageviews2026-07-08 — 14 pageviews2026-07-11 — 18 pageviews2026-07-14 — 8 pageviews2026-07-17 — 16 pageviews2026-07-20 — 17 pageviews2026-07-23 — 15 pageviews2026-07-26 — 16 pageviews2026-07-29 — 12 pageviews2026-08-01 — 12 pageviews2026-08-04 — 11 pageviews2026-08-07 — 22 pageviews2026-08-10 — 20 pageviews2026-08-13 — 21 pageviews2026-08-16 — 22 pageviews2026-08-19 — 13 pageviews2026-08-22 — 17 pageviews2026-08-25 — 27 pageviews2026-08-27 — 21 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

28
achievements tracked
80.7%
earned "Mathematic"
26.9%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportDualShock Controller SupportDualShock Controller SupportDualSense Controller SupportDualSense Controller SupportSteam CloudFamily Sharing2 DLC

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

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Xbox Series, Xbox One (Xbox)7,4404%28
Steam (Steam)3,4236%28
PS5 (PlayStation)70225%29
PS4 (PlayStation)8444%29
Switch (Nintendo)790%0
PS4 (PlayStation)2737%29

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

Player tags

CuteCasualEconomyWesternCartoonyColorfulRelaxingStrategyControllerManagement

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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