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Tharsis cover art

Tharsis

Choice Provisions · 2016-01-11

SteamGOGPlayStation StoreEpic Games Store

CasualIndieRPGStrategy

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Bird view / Isometric, Side view

Releases: Jan 12, 2016 (PlayStation 4), Apr 10, 2020 (Nintendo Switch), Jan 11, 2016 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Jan 11, 2016 (Mac), Jun 27, 2019 (iOS), Dec 31, 2016 (Wii U)

Succeeding in Tharsis requires you to make the best of what you have, even if it happens to be a pair of snake eyes. Certain factors may be outside of your control, but that doesn’t mean they can’t be overcome. Tharsis is not a game about facing the odds. It’s a game about changing them.

Tharsis is a 2016 Casual, Indie, RPG, and Strategy game priced at $14.99, with an estimated 500,000 to 1,000,000 owners and Mostly Positive sentiment (70% of 2512 reviews).

1
playing now
70%
positive of 2.5k reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
500,000–1,000,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
63/100
critic score (7 outlets, IGDB)
73/100
IGDB user rating (19 ratings)
3.80★
PlayStation Store rating (724 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Verified
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$14.99
steam price (US)

1 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 12:00 UTC (census sample)

Tharsis is a 2016 strategy video game developed and published by Choice Provisions. It was released worldwide in January 2016 for Windows and Mac OS X through the download service Steam, as well as for PlayStation 4, and later in April 2020 for the Nintendo Switch. The game follows a team of astronauts on the first crewed mission to Mars, in order to track down a signal that is apparently extraterrestrial in origin. After being hit by a micrometeorite storm, they must resort to desperate measures to survive the trip.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 1 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 10 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 33% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 4% of 29,046 Casual games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-30

Estimated sales: 63k–151k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 2,513 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

GOG$14.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $1.00 at Fanatical (2020-10-15) · bundled 7×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $14.99 · on sale 30 of 65 observed days · $13.99 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
181820172026Week of 2017-09-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2017-10-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2017-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-11-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2017-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-12-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-01-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2018-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2019-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-11-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-02-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-03-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

402026-09-15 13:00 — 1 players2026-09-16 21:00 — 3 players2026-09-18 04:00 — 2 players2026-09-19 12:00 — 2 players2026-09-20 19:00 — 2 players2026-09-22 03:00 — 3 players2026-09-23 11:00 — 2 players2026-09-24 18:00 — 2 players2026-09-26 02:00 — 2 players2026-09-27 09:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 17:00 — 0 players2026-09-30 00:00 — 0 players2026-10-01 08:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 15:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 23:00 — 2 players2026-10-05 07:00 — 1 players2026-10-06 14:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 22:00 — 2 players2026-10-09 05:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 13:00 — 1 players2026-10-11 21:00 — 1 players2026-10-13 04:00 — 1 players2026-10-14 12:00 — 1 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
1400Nov 2015Oct 2024Nov 2015 — avg 0 · peak 3Feb 2016 — avg 34 · peak 127May 2016 — avg 6 · peak 19Aug 2016 — avg 125 · peak 628Nov 2016 — avg 23 · peak 97Feb 2017 — avg 16 · peak 36May 2017 — avg 9 · peak 22Aug 2017 — avg 7 · peak 18Nov 2017 — avg 8 · peak 26Feb 2018 — avg 6 · peak 26May 2018 — avg 4 · peak 14Aug 2018 — avg 4 · peak 13Nov 2018 — avg 8 · peak 26Feb 2019 — avg 4 · peak 14May 2019 — avg 4 · peak 11Aug 2019 — avg 4 · peak 21Nov 2019 — avg 3 · peak 12Feb 2020 — avg 4 · peak 12May 2020 — avg 7 · peak 28Aug 2020 — avg 4 · peak 12Nov 2020 — avg 5 · peak 13Feb 2021 — avg 4 · peak 11May 2021 — avg 3 · peak 8Aug 2021 — avg 2 · peak 7Nov 2021 — avg 3 · peak 9Feb 2022 — avg 2 · peak 8May 2022 — avg 2 · peak 7Aug 2022 — avg 2 · peak 7Nov 2022 — avg 2 · peak 8Feb 2023 — avg 2 · peak 8May 2023 — avg 2 · peak 7Sep 2023 — avg 2 · peak 6Dec 2023 — avg 3 · peak 10Mar 2024 — avg 2 · peak 5Aug 2024 — avg 2 · peak 5Oct 2024 — avg 2 · peak 6
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$14.99$0.002016-01-122026-10-142016-01-12 — best price $9.892016-07-18 — best price $14.992016-11-29 — best price $14.992017-06-22 — best price $4.942017-11-01 — best price $14.992018-04-12 — best price $3.742018-08-30 — best price $7.492018-11-14 — best price $4.942019-05-10 — best price $8.992019-07-22 — best price $14.992019-11-28 — best price $7.492020-01-24 — best price $7.492020-03-30 — best price $14.992020-05-27 — best price $4.492020-10-15 — best price $1.002020-12-07 — best price $4.942021-06-09 — best price $7.492021-11-18 — best price $7.492022-02-21 — best price $14.992022-08-01 — best price $14.992023-03-29 — best price $8.992023-08-18 — best price $8.992023-10-16 — best price $14.992023-11-29 — best price $14.992024-01-26 — best price $7.492024-03-21 — best price $14.992024-05-30 — best price $14.992024-11-26 — best price $8.992025-02-10 — best price $14.992025-08-18 — best price $14.992026-01-03 — best price $14.992026-06-25 — best price $7.492026-09-04 — best price $14.992026-09-14 — best price $14.992026-09-24 — best price $10.492026-10-04 — best price $10.492026-10-14 — best price $14.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

3212026-06-01 — 10 pageviews2026-06-05 — 11 pageviews2026-06-09 — 7 pageviews2026-06-13 — 13 pageviews2026-06-17 — 5 pageviews2026-06-21 — 3 pageviews2026-06-25 — 13 pageviews2026-06-29 — 9 pageviews2026-07-03 — 15 pageviews2026-07-07 — 9 pageviews2026-07-11 — 7 pageviews2026-07-15 — 4 pageviews2026-07-19 — 8 pageviews2026-07-23 — 8 pageviews2026-07-27 — 4 pageviews2026-07-31 — 4 pageviews2026-08-04 — 8 pageviews2026-08-08 — 5 pageviews2026-08-12 — 7 pageviews2026-08-16 — 5 pageviews2026-08-20 — 5 pageviews2026-08-24 — 7 pageviews2026-08-28 — 2 pageviews2026-09-01 — 10 pageviews2026-09-05 — 7 pageviews2026-09-09 — 2 pageviews2026-09-13 — 9 pageviews2026-09-17 — 6 pageviews2026-09-21 — 32 pageviews2026-09-25 — 5 pageviews2026-09-29 — 9 pageviews2026-10-03 — 13 pageviews2026-10-07 — 6 pageviews2026-10-10 — 4 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

12
achievements tracked
46.1%
earned "Risk Management Professional"
9.2%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam Trading CardsSteam CloudSteam LeaderboardsFamily Sharing

3 supported languages: English, French, German

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)4,1145%12
PS4 (PlayStation)54710%12
Switch (Nintendo)110%0

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

Where its players are

Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.

Player tags

RPGMarsIndieSpaceHorrorSci-fiStrategySurvivalDifficultBoard Game

Census log

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

Players also track

Star Control®: OriginsUnclaimed WorldSurvivalistDead AgeThe Long Journey HomeJudgment: Apocalypse Survival SimulationLEGRAND LEGACY: Tale of the FateboundsForce of Nature

Similarity via IGDB.

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