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The Fifth Day cover art

The Fifth Day

Touz · 2014-07-25

Steam

ActionAdventureIndieEarly Access

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer · Perspectives: First person

Releases: Jul 25, 2014 (Mac), Jul 25, 2014 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

The Fifth Day is a post-apocalyptic survival game set in the time after mankind's extinction to the machines that it created. Your role, as one of these machines, is to survive in the hostile world left behind by man.

The Fifth Day is a 2014 Action, Adventure, Indie, Early Access game priced at $14.99, with an estimated 100,000 .. 200,000 owners and a Mostly Negative review sentiment (37% of 941 reviews).

0
playing now
37%
positive of 940 reviews
Mostly Negative
steam's rating (official)
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
50/100
IGDB user rating (0 ratings)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$14.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 15:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 10 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity up 0% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 16% of 27,675 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-31

Estimated sales: 24k–56k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 940 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $14.99 at Steam (2014-07-26)via IsThereAnyDeal

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
171720162026Week of 2016-06-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2016-06-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2016-07-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2016-07-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2016-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2016-08-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2016-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2016-09-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2016-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2016-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2016-11-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2016-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-12-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2017-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2017-01-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2017-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-02-01: 17 negativeWeek of 2017-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-03-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2017-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-04-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2017-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-05-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2017-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-07-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2017-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2017-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2017-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2018-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2018-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2018-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2018-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2018-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-09-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2018-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-12-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2019-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2019-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-05-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2019-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2019-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2019-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-11-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2019-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2020-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

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Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Details

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Player tags

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Census log

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

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