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The Westport Independent

Double Zero One Zero · 2016-01-21

SteamGOG

IndieSimulation

Modes: Single player

Releases: Jan 21, 2016 (Mac), Jan 21, 2016 (Linux), Jan 21, 2016 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Jan 21, 2016 (iOS), Jan 21, 2016 (Android)

The Westport Independent is a censorship simulator taking place in a post-war country, governed by the recently elected Loyalist Party. As the editor of one of the last independent newspapers in the country, your job is to remove and edit the content of your paper, affecting the people’s opinion of both the rebels and the Loyalist...

The Westport Independent is a 2016 Indie, Simulation game that is free-to-play, with an estimated 50,000 to 100,000 owners and a Mostly Positive review sentiment (77% of 347 reviews).

0
playing now
77%
positive of 347 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
67/100
critic score (1 outlets, IGDB)
70/100
IGDB user rating (7 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Free
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 18:00 UTC (census sample)

The Westport Independent is a simulation video game developed by Double Zero One Zero and published by Coffee Stain Studios. The game was released digitally for Android, iOS, Linux, Microsoft Windows, and OS X on 21 January 2016.

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 25 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~3/week).
  • · Review velocity up 14% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 19% of 50,072 Indie games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-01

All-time low: $0.75 at GamersGate (2020-05-07)via IsThereAnyDeal

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
9920162026Week of 2016-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2016-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2016-04-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2016-05-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2016-05-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2016-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2016-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2016-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2016-08-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2016-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2016-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2017-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2017-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2017-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-08-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2017-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 3 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

302026-09-15 19:00 — 0 players2026-09-17 04:00 — 0 players2026-09-18 11:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 19:00 — 1 players2026-09-21 02:00 — 0 players2026-09-22 10:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 17:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 01:00 — 1 players2026-09-26 08:00 — 0 players2026-09-27 16:00 — 3 players2026-09-28 23:00 — 0 players2026-09-30 07:00 — 0 players2026-10-01 14:00 — 2 players2026-10-02 22:00 — 0 players2026-10-04 06:00 — 0 players2026-10-05 14:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 21:00 — 0 players2026-10-08 05:00 — 0 players2026-10-09 12:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 20:00 — 1 players2026-10-12 03:00 — 0 players2026-10-13 11:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 18:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$9.99$0.752016-01-212023-01-042016-01-21 — best price $9.992016-05-23 — best price $9.992016-07-30 — best price $2.492016-10-20 — best price $2.502016-11-29 — best price $9.992017-02-20 — best price $1.992017-06-22 — best price $1.992017-09-14 — best price $1.492017-11-20 — best price $9.992018-02-15 — best price $2.492018-05-10 — best price $4.992018-08-07 — best price $2.492018-11-19 — best price $4.992019-01-17 — best price $1.252019-05-14 — best price $2.492019-08-27 — best price $1.242019-11-26 — best price $1.242020-01-22 — best price $2.492020-03-24 — best price $4.492020-05-25 — best price $4.992020-06-23 — best price $4.992020-07-13 — best price $4.992020-07-28 — best price $4.992020-08-12 — best price $4.992020-08-28 — best price $2.492020-09-21 — best price $4.992020-10-06 — best price $4.992020-10-21 — best price $4.992020-11-03 — best price $4.992020-11-18 — best price $4.992020-12-05 — best price $4.142020-12-20 — best price $4.142021-01-13 — best price $4.992021-01-29 — best price $4.992021-02-17 — best price $4.142021-10-27 — best price $1.242022-06-09 — best price $1.242023-01-04 — best price $1.24
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

2852026-06-01 — 18 pageviews2026-06-05 — 8 pageviews2026-06-09 — 13 pageviews2026-06-13 — 11 pageviews2026-06-17 — 15 pageviews2026-06-21 — 28 pageviews2026-06-25 — 11 pageviews2026-06-29 — 5 pageviews2026-07-03 — 20 pageviews2026-07-07 — 8 pageviews2026-07-11 — 14 pageviews2026-07-15 — 20 pageviews2026-07-19 — 15 pageviews2026-07-23 — 24 pageviews2026-07-27 — 11 pageviews2026-07-31 — 13 pageviews2026-08-04 — 16 pageviews2026-08-08 — 14 pageviews2026-08-12 — 21 pageviews2026-08-16 — 10 pageviews2026-08-20 — 15 pageviews2026-08-24 — 14 pageviews2026-08-28 — 14 pageviews2026-09-01 — 16 pageviews2026-09-05 — 15 pageviews2026-09-09 — 13 pageviews2026-09-13 — 8 pageviews2026-09-17 — 17 pageviews2026-09-21 — 19 pageviews2026-09-25 — 16 pageviews2026-09-29 — 19 pageviews2026-10-03 — 9 pageviews2026-10-07 — 6 pageviews2026-10-11 — 11 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

20
achievements tracked
45.1%
earned "Wealthy Celebrations"
9.4%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam CloudFamily Sharing

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)3723%20

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

IndiePoliticalDystopian SimulationFree to PlaySingleplayerChoices Matter

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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