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The Crust

VEOM Studio · Crytivo · 2024-07-15

SteamEpic Games Store

SimulationStrategyEarly Access

Modes: Single player

Releases: Jul 15, 2024 (Mac), Jul 15, 2024 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Automate a lunar base as you become the savior of humanity exploring the future on the moon. Mine, craft, research, and trade resources with Earth in this gripping narrative basebuilder.

The Crust is a 2024 Simulation, Strategy, and Early Access game priced at $31.99, with an estimated 100,000 .. 200,000 owners and a Mostly Positive reviewLabel (77% of 3697 reviews).

162
playing now
77%
positive of 3.7k reviews
Mostly Positive
steam rating
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$31.99
steam price (US)

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

No fate is determined. The progress is driven by people. It’s time for you to decide whether you become the one who brings changes — or the one who adapts to them. Whether to be mediocre and insignificant anybody — or to be a pioneer in the space colonization industry, leading your corporation to dominance and bringing necessary effort to make humanity an interstellar species. Building the world of the future will mark a place for you in the history books. Only the strongest can survive on a giant grim permafrost rock surrounded by vacuum, deep space darkness, and deadly silence.(Storyline via IGDB)

Health check

Healthy
  • · 162 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 527 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~66/week).
  • · Review velocity down 12% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 15% of 6,674 Simulation games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 74k–166k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 3,697 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $16.04 at Fanatical (2026-01-19)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $31.99 · on sale 37 of 78 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
68368320242026Week of 2024-07-01: 683 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 322 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 231 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 72 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 160 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 49 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 69 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 27 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 99 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 88 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 28 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 54 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 22 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 89 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 24 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 63 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 68 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 40 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 20 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 26 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 166 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 45 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 59 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 28 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 39 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 50 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 24 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 47 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 19 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 28 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 59 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 23 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 44 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 16 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 54 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 30 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 48 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 16 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 52 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 3 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

2791012026-08-11 17:00 — 262 players2026-08-12 09:00 — 164 players2026-08-13 01:00 — 144 players2026-08-13 16:00 — 228 players2026-08-14 08:00 — 135 players2026-08-15 00:00 — 160 players2026-08-15 16:00 — 279 players2026-08-16 08:00 — 211 players2026-08-17 00:00 — 157 players2026-08-17 16:00 — 244 players2026-08-18 07:00 — 130 players2026-08-18 23:00 — 143 players2026-08-19 15:00 — 208 players2026-08-20 07:00 — 115 players2026-08-20 22:00 — 150 players2026-08-21 14:00 — 225 players2026-08-22 06:00 — 155 players2026-08-22 22:00 — 262 players2026-08-23 13:00 — 278 players2026-08-24 05:00 — 101 players2026-08-24 21:00 — 203 players2026-08-25 13:00 — 198 players2026-08-26 05:00 — 104 players2026-08-26 21:00 — 173 players2026-08-27 13:00 — 174 players2026-08-28 05:00 — 108 players2026-08-28 21:00 — 185 players2026-08-29 12:00 — 236 players2026-08-30 05:00 — 162 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$100.00$16.042024-02-232026-08-132024-02-23 — best price $100.002024-07-30 — best price $29.992024-10-18 — best price $23.992024-11-04 — best price $29.992024-11-27 — best price $22.492024-12-19 — best price $22.492025-01-16 — best price $29.992025-02-04 — best price $20.992025-02-21 — best price $23.992025-03-13 — best price $20.992025-03-26 — best price $22.492025-04-10 — best price $23.692025-05-15 — best price $20.992025-05-27 — best price $29.992025-06-21 — best price $29.992025-07-10 — best price $29.992025-07-31 — best price $29.992025-09-01 — best price $29.992025-09-18 — best price $29.992025-10-09 — best price $20.992025-11-04 — best price $29.992025-12-01 — best price $29.992025-12-18 — best price $16.492026-01-19 — best price $16.042026-02-21 — best price $29.992026-03-17 — best price $19.002026-03-30 — best price $17.992026-04-22 — best price $29.992026-05-08 — best price $19.002026-05-28 — best price $29.992026-06-19 — best price $17.992026-07-14 — best price $19.492026-08-10 — best price $31.992026-08-13 — best price $19.49
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Twitch viewers

5002026-08-26 21:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-26 22:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-26 23:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-27 01:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-27 02:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-27 03:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-27 04:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-27 05:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-27 06:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-27 07:33 — 0 viewers2026-08-27 08:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-27 09:33 — 0 viewers2026-08-27 10:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-27 11:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-27 12:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-27 13:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-27 14:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-27 15:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-27 16:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-27 17:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-27 18:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-27 19:34 — 50 viewers2026-08-27 21:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-27 22:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-27 23:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-28 00:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-28 01:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-28 02:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-28 03:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-28 04:34 — 0 viewers
Hourly Twitch viewers (census snapshots).

Completion

26
achievements tracked
74.3%
earned "Now the Fun Begins"
10.2%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam CloudFamily Sharing2 DLC

11 supported languages: English, Russian, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Simplified Chinese, Korean, Portuguese - Brazil, Polish, Italian, Spanish - Latin America

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)1,8200%27

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

SpaceSci-fiSandboxBuildingStrategySurvivalAutomationColony SimManagementSimulation

Census log

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

Recent updates

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Similarity via IGDB.

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