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The Away Team: Lost Exodus

Underflow Studios · 2016-07-22

Steam

AdventureIndieSimulationFree To Play

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

Releases: Jul 22, 2016 (Mac), Jul 22, 2016 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Jul 22, 2016 (Linux)

In this interactive sci-fi adventure novel, you are the AI pilot of Earth's last interstellar ship, tasked with finding a home for your crew—the last remnants of humanity. Your choices will determine their fate, and your own.

The Away Team: Lost Exodus is a free-to-play Adventure, Indie, Simulation and Free To Play game released in 2016, with a Mostly Positive sentiment based on 73% of 100 reviews, and an owner estimate of 20,000 .. 50,000.— census verdict as of 2026-09-20

1
playing now
73%
positive of 100 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
60/100
IGDB user rating (0 ratings)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
Free
steam price (US)

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

Health check

Quiet
  • · 1 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 14 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity up 56% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 40% of 28,838 Adventure games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-01

All-time low: $0.60 at Steam (2017-12-21)via IsThereAnyDeal

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
101020162026Week of 2016-07-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2016-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2017-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-06-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2017-06-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2017-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-10-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2017-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

102026-09-15 09:00 — 1 players2026-09-16 17:00 — 0 players2026-09-18 01:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 08:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 16:00 — 0 players2026-09-21 23:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 07:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 14:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 22:00 — 0 players2026-09-27 05:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 13:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 21:00 — 0 players2026-10-01 04:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 12:00 — 1 players2026-10-03 19:00 — 0 players2026-10-05 03:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 11:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 18:00 — 0 players2026-10-09 02:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 09:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 17:00 — 0 players2026-10-13 01:00 — 1 players2026-10-14 08:00 — 1 players2026-10-15 00:00 — 1 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
40Jun 2016Nov 2020Jun 2016 — avg 0 · peak 2Aug 2016 — avg 1 · peak 5Oct 2016 — avg 0 · peak 1Dec 2016 — avg 0 · peak 3Feb 2017 — avg 4 · peak 29Apr 2017 — avg 1 · peak 6Jun 2017 — avg 4 · peak 54Aug 2017 — avg 0 · peak 4Oct 2017 — avg 2 · peak 7Dec 2017 — avg 1 · peak 4Feb 2018 — avg 0 · peak 4Apr 2018 — avg 0 · peak 2Jun 2018 — avg 0 · peak 3Aug 2018 — avg 0 · peak 2Oct 2018 — avg 0 · peak 5Dec 2018 — avg 0 · peak 4Feb 2019 — avg 0 · peak 3Apr 2019 — avg 0 · peak 2Jun 2019 — avg 0 · peak 1Aug 2019 — avg 0 · peak 2Nov 2020 — avg 0 · peak 1

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

$9.99$0.002016-07-232025-03-212016-07-23 — best price $6.992016-07-31 — best price $9.992016-11-23 — best price $3.992016-11-29 — best price $9.992016-12-22 — best price $3.992017-01-02 — best price $9.992017-03-08 — best price $5.992017-03-13 — best price $1.492017-03-20 — best price $5.992017-06-12 — best price $1.012017-06-19 — best price $5.992017-06-23 — best price $1.012017-07-05 — best price $5.992017-10-02 — best price $4.992017-10-26 — best price $2.492017-11-01 — best price $4.992017-11-22 — best price $1.992017-11-28 — best price $4.992017-12-13 — best price $2.002017-12-21 — best price $0.602018-01-04 — best price $2.002018-10-23 — best price $8.002019-09-23 — best price $6.802019-09-30 — best price $8.002020-02-24 — best price $6.802020-03-02 — best price $8.002020-06-25 — best price $6.402020-07-09 — best price $8.002020-09-28 — best price $6.402020-10-05 — best price $8.002020-11-25 — best price $6.002020-12-01 — best price $8.002020-12-22 — best price $5.602021-01-05 — best price $8.002025-03-21 — best price $0.00
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

21
achievements tracked
18.1%
earned "Upon a painted ocean..."
7.9%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam Trading CardsCaptions availableSteam WorkshopSteam CloudFamily Sharing1 DLC

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2018-12-14 (Steam store data)

Player tags

2DIndieSci-fiAdventureNarrationStory RichText-BasedAtmosphericExplorationConversation

Census log

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

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