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The Front

Samar Studio · 2025-10-30

SteamEpic Games Store

ActionIndieMassively MultiplayerSimulation

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative, Massively Multiplayer Online (MMO) · Perspectives: First person, Third person

Releases: Oct 30, 2025 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

The Front is a survival open-world crafting sandbox game. You are a resistance fighter sent back in time to stop the rise of a tyrannical empire. Collect resources, craft tech, build shelters, and fight monsters to accomplish your mission.

The Front is an Action, Indie, Massively Multiplayer, Simulation game released in 2025, priced at $9.99, with an estimated 200,000 to 500,000 owners and a Mixed review sentiment (67% of 10,731 reviews).

61
playing now
67%
positive of 11k reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
2
Nexus mods (74 downloads)
bronze
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unsupported
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Unsupported
$9.99
steam price (US)

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

Trailer

The Front trailer thumbnail

The Front - Official Trailer - Woody Allen Movie

≈1,000,000 YouTube results for this game's trailer search

Health check

Cooling
  • · 61 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 290 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~36/week).
  • · Review velocity down 75% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (4,269 reviews).
  • · Top 5% of 27,667 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-27

Estimated sales: 215k–483k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 10,731 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $7.99 at Steam (2024-11-20)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $19.99 · on sale 19 of 31 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
2.9k2.9k20232026Week of 2023-10-01: 2,936 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 1,333 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 1,346 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 508 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 542 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 311 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 240 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 154 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 77 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 62 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 58 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 73 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 137 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 42 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 38 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 32 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 25 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 37 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 129 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 73 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 30 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 56 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 26 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 38 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 35 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 42 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 60 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 27 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 37 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 24 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 78 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 25 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 131 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 33 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 165 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 43 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 52 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 110 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 31 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 90 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 21 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 32 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 19 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 54 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 277 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 74 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 37 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 31 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 16 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 20 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 22 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 24 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 6 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

114372026-09-15 13:00 — 72 players2026-09-16 21:00 — 60 players2026-09-18 05:00 — 42 players2026-09-19 12:00 — 81 players2026-09-20 20:00 — 79 players2026-09-22 03:00 — 47 players2026-09-23 11:00 — 59 players2026-09-24 18:00 — 72 players2026-09-26 02:00 — 48 players2026-09-27 09:00 — 74 players2026-09-28 17:00 — 86 players2026-09-30 00:00 — 52 players2026-10-01 08:00 — 65 players2026-10-02 15:00 — 66 players2026-10-03 23:00 — 53 players2026-10-05 07:00 — 50 players2026-10-06 15:00 — 96 players2026-10-07 22:00 — 47 players2026-10-09 06:00 — 47 players2026-10-10 13:00 — 77 players2026-10-11 21:00 — 56 players2026-10-13 04:00 — 37 players2026-10-14 12:00 — 61 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
10k64Oct 2023Aug 2026Oct 2023 — avg 10,274 · peak 19,524Nov 2023 — avg 5,623 · peak 10,569Dec 2023 — avg 3,210 · peak 6,626Jan 2024 — avg 1,803 · peak 3,861Feb 2024 — avg 704 · peak 1,225Mar 2024 — avg 459 · peak 784Apr 2024 — avg 368 · peak 647May 2024 — avg 263 · peak 479Jun 2024 — avg 193 · peak 439Jul 2024 — avg 134 · peak 257Aug 2024 — avg 176 · peak 658Sep 2024 — avg 200 · peak 451Oct 2024 — avg 190 · peak 365Nov 2024 — avg 180 · peak 398Dec 2024 — avg 207 · peak 437Jan 2025 — avg 168 · peak 299Feb 2025 — avg 194 · peak 358Mar 2025 — avg 266 · peak 712Apr 2025 — avg 405 · peak 646May 2025 — avg 319 · peak 571Jun 2025 — avg 112 · peak 256Jul 2025 — avg 242 · peak 515Aug 2025 — avg 295 · peak 501Sep 2025 — avg 316 · peak 451Oct 2025 — avg 136 · peak 545Nov 2025 — avg 508 · peak 952Dec 2025 — avg 244 · peak 462Jan 2026 — avg 230 · peak 377Feb 2026 — avg 172 · peak 274Mar 2026 — avg 151 · peak 229Apr 2026 — avg 97 · peak 209May 2026 — avg 75 · peak 128Jun 2026 — avg 68 · peak 120Jul 2026 — avg 83 · peak 177Aug 2026 — avg 64 · peak 165
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$19.99$7.992023-10-082026-08-242023-10-08 — best price $19.992023-10-20 — best price $19.992023-11-22 — best price $14.992023-12-03 — best price $15.892023-12-28 — best price $13.992024-02-07 — best price $15.992024-03-14 — best price $13.992024-03-22 — best price $19.992024-05-27 — best price $13.992024-07-11 — best price $13.992024-08-31 — best price $19.992024-11-20 — best price $7.992025-01-02 — best price $19.992025-03-13 — best price $7.992025-05-17 — best price $19.992025-07-13 — best price $15.992025-08-27 — best price $14.992025-09-29 — best price $13.992025-10-07 — best price $19.992025-11-13 — best price $19.992026-01-05 — best price $13.992026-02-19 — best price $11.992026-03-16 — best price $19.992026-04-09 — best price $19.992026-05-10 — best price $9.992026-05-18 — best price $19.992026-06-19 — best price $9.992026-07-23 — best price $19.992026-08-13 — best price $9.992026-08-24 — best price $9.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerMulti-playerMMOPvPOnline PvPCo-opOnline Co-op12 DLC

13 supported languages: English, French, German, Russian, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Portuguese - Brazil, Italian, Polish, Spanish - Latin America, Korean…

Post-launch support: 12 DLC released, first 2025-10-30, latest 2025-12-19 (Steam store data)

Where its players are

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

Player tags

Co-opTanksSandboxShooterBuildingCraftingSurvivalRealisticOpen WorldMultiplayer

Census log

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

Recent updates

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