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The Population Must Grow

Helmi Blub · 2025-07-04

Steam

IndieSimulationFree To Play

Modes: Single player

Releases: Jul 04, 2025 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Jul 04, 2025 (Linux)

Start with just one citizens to build up your city. Grow it more and more and more. There is no limit in size. Just the limit of your own PC.

76%
positive of 54 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
Free
steam price (US)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 10 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity up 11% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 66% of 23,948 Indie games in the census by review count.

12-month high $0.00 · on sale 1 of 1 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
8820252026Week of 2025-07-04: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-07-11: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-07-18: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-07-18: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-07-25: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-07-25: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-08: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-08-15: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-08-15: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-08-29: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-05: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-05: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-09-12: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-19: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-10-10: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-19: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-02: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-16: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-23: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-13: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-20: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-02-20: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-27: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-03-06: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-20: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-29: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-05: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-10: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-10: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Details

WindowsLinuxSingle-playerFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Census log

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

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