The Game Census
The Wanderer cover art

The Wanderer

Cult Software · 2019-01-25

Steam

AdventureStrategy

Modes: Single player

Releases: May 22, 2017 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Enter a dark wasteland and fight mutants to survive.

The Wanderer is an Adventure and Strategy game released in 2019, priced at $0.99, with an estimated 20,000 .. 50,000 owners and a Mixed review sentiment (69% of 65 reviews).

1
playing now
69%
positive of 65 reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$0.99
steam price (US)

1 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 09:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 1 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 5 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 29% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 48% of 28,739 Adventure games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-02

Estimated sales: 1.6k–3.9k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 65 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.28 at Steam (2023-01-16)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $0.99 · on sale 8 of 16 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
5520172026Week of 2017-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

202026-09-15 09:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 18:00 — 0 players2026-09-18 01:00 — 1 players2026-09-19 09:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 16:00 — 2 players2026-09-22 00:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 07:00 — 1 players2026-09-24 15:00 — 1 players2026-09-25 22:00 — 0 players2026-09-27 06:00 — 1 players2026-09-28 14:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 21:00 — 2 players2026-10-01 05:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 12:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 20:00 — 0 players2026-10-05 04:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 11:00 — 1 players2026-10-07 19:00 — 0 players2026-10-09 02:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 10:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 17:00 — 0 players2026-10-13 01:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 09:00 — 1 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$9.79$0.492017-05-242026-07-272017-05-24 — best price $9.792017-09-25 — best price $2.492017-12-21 — best price $2.492018-04-09 — best price $2.492018-08-20 — best price $2.992018-11-27 — best price $2.992019-02-01 — best price $2.992019-07-10 — best price $2.992019-11-01 — best price $2.992020-01-02 — best price $2.992020-03-09 — best price $2.992020-07-09 — best price $2.992020-11-02 — best price $2.992021-01-05 — best price $2.992021-03-29 — best price $2.992021-06-24 — best price $0.492021-10-28 — best price $0.492022-01-17 — best price $0.492022-04-25 — best price $0.992022-07-18 — best price $0.992022-10-31 — best price $0.992023-01-05 — best price $0.992023-03-23 — best price $0.992023-07-13 — best price $0.992023-11-13 — best price $0.992024-02-26 — best price $0.992024-05-20 — best price $0.992024-09-02 — best price $0.992024-12-04 — best price $0.992025-04-28 — best price $0.992025-07-21 — best price $0.992025-12-01 — best price $0.992026-03-26 — best price $0.992026-07-09 — best price $0.992026-07-27 — best price $0.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam Trading CardsFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Player tags

Hex GridStrategyAdventureHand-drawnOpen WorldTurn-BasedExplorationSingleplayerGreat SoundtrackPost-apocalyptic

Census log

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

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