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US and THEM

Icehole Games · Conglomerate 5 · 2014-03-18

Steam

Strategy

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Bird view / Isometric, Text

Releases: Feb 02, 2014 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Lead the CIA or KGB in a turn-based global strategy. Influence nations, run covert ops, and win the Cold War without firing a shot.

US and THEM is a 2014 Strategy game priced at $2.99, with a Mostly Negative sentiment (34% of 116 reviews) and an owner estimate of 20,000 .. 50,000.

1
playing now
34%
positive of 116 reviews
Mostly Negative
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
40/100
IGDB user rating (1 ratings)
borked
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$2.99
steam price (US)

1 players in-game as of 2026-10-15 15:00 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 up 25% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (17 reviews).
  • · Top 39% of 14,337 Strategy games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 2.9k–7.0k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 116 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.37 at GamersGate (2021-08-19) · bundled 2×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $2.99 · on sale 18 of 35 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
121220142026Week of 2014-03-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2014-03-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2014-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2014-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2014-05-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2014-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2014-06-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2014-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2014-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2014-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2014-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2014-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2014-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2014-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2014-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2014-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2015-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 positiveWeek 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

402026-09-16 01:00 — 2 players2026-09-17 09:00 — 1 players2026-09-18 16:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 00:00 — 1 players2026-09-21 07:00 — 1 players2026-09-22 15:00 — 1 players2026-09-23 22:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 06:00 — 1 players2026-09-26 14:00 — 1 players2026-09-27 21:00 — 1 players2026-09-29 05:00 — 1 players2026-09-30 12:00 — 0 players2026-10-01 20:00 — 1 players2026-10-03 03:00 — 1 players2026-10-04 11:00 — 1 players2026-10-05 19:00 — 2 players2026-10-07 02:00 — 1 players2026-10-08 10:00 — 2 players2026-10-09 17:00 — 2 players2026-10-11 01:00 — 1 players2026-10-12 09:00 — 1 players2026-10-13 16:00 — 1 players2026-10-15 00:00 — 0 players2026-10-15 15:00 — 1 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
270Mar 2014Sep 2026Mar 2014 — avg 6 · peak 28Jun 2014 — avg 1 · peak 5Sep 2014 — avg 0 · peak 3Dec 2014 — avg 0 · peak 3Mar 2015 — avg 0 · peak 2Jun 2015 — avg 0 · peak 2Sep 2015 — avg 0 · peak 6Dec 2015 — avg 0 · peak 3Mar 2016 — avg 0 · peak 3Jun 2016 — avg 0 · peak 2Sep 2016 — avg 0 · peak 1Dec 2016 — avg 0 · peak 2Mar 2017 — avg 0 · peak 1Jun 2017 — avg 0 · peak 2Sep 2017 — avg 0 · peak 1Dec 2017 — avg 0 · peak 2Mar 2018 — avg 0 · peak 2Jun 2018 — avg 0 · peak 1Sep 2018 — avg 0 · peak 2Dec 2018 — avg 0 · peak 1Apr 2019 — avg 0 · peak 2Jul 2019 — avg 0 · peak 1Sep 2024 — avg 1 · peak 1Dec 2024 — avg 1 · peak 1Mar 2025 — avg 1 · peak 2Jul 2025 — avg 12 · peak 135Oct 2025 — avg 21 · peak 220Jan 2026 — avg 18 · peak 221May 2026 — avg 8 · peak 142Aug 2026 — avg 1 · peak 3Sep 2026 — avg 1 · peak 2

No change (0) in avg players vs prior month — Sep 2026

Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$10.76$0.372015-01-012026-08-212015-01-01 — best price $1.992015-07-16 — best price $9.992016-02-05 — best price $0.992016-10-10 — best price $9.992017-07-05 — best price $9.992017-11-23 — best price $0.892018-03-09 — best price $1.012018-06-22 — best price $0.502018-09-07 — best price $0.592019-01-21 — best price $2.992019-09-02 — best price $2.992020-01-29 — best price $9.992020-06-12 — best price $2.992020-11-05 — best price $0.452021-03-16 — best price $0.382021-05-24 — best price $2.992021-07-08 — best price $2.992021-09-11 — best price $8.092021-11-05 — best price $1.762021-12-17 — best price $2.002022-03-07 — best price $2.992022-07-12 — best price $0.542022-11-29 — best price $2.992023-02-04 — best price $2.992023-05-13 — best price $2.992023-10-07 — best price $2.992024-02-08 — best price $0.452024-05-10 — best price $0.602024-10-07 — best price $0.452025-02-10 — best price $2.992025-07-21 — best price $2.992025-12-18 — best price $0.592026-04-27 — best price $2.992026-08-21 — best price $2.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam Trading CardsFamily Sharing

4 supported languages: English, German, Greek, Russian

Player tags

Cold WarStrategyTurn-Based Strategy

Census log

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

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