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Vantage: Primitive Survival Game cover art

Vantage: Primitive Survival Game

Crystal Dragon · 2021-12-02

Steam

IndieSimulation

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative · Perspectives: First person, Third person

Releases: May 22, 2018 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Vantage is a passion project created by a solo developer where your main objective is simple... to stay alive! You explore the massive world searching for food, creating primitive tools and weapons to hunt, and craft other items to make life easier. Play Online/Offline Multiplayer or Single Player.

58%
positive of 76 reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
60/100
IGDB user rating (0 ratings)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$14.99
steam price (US)

Vantage is a game where you play a prehistoric cave person and the objective is simple... to survive! You search a massive persistent open world in search of food, drink, and shelter. The game has a realistic, complex, yet intuitive crafting and skill system. Crafting in Vantage is heavily researched to be as realistically accurate as possible. For example: to create a primitive fire you must first create a wooden spindle and hearth, as well as find some tinder (dry grass for example). Then with these items you attempt to create a fire using the "hand drill" method. Crafting uses time and ener(Storyline via IGDB)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 12 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity down 40% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 49% of 34,487 Indie games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 1.5k–3.4k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 76 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $2.99 at Steam (2026-06-25)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $14.99 · on sale 5 of 10 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
6620182026Week of 2018-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-08-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2018-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2019-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$14.99$2.992018-05-232026-09-072018-05-23 — best price $13.492018-11-01 — best price $14.992018-12-21 — best price $10.492019-07-10 — best price $14.992019-11-26 — best price $9.742020-01-02 — best price $14.992020-06-25 — best price $9.742020-11-02 — best price $14.992020-12-22 — best price $9.742021-02-15 — best price $14.992021-06-24 — best price $9.742021-11-01 — best price $14.992021-12-02 — best price $11.992022-02-03 — best price $14.992022-05-09 — best price $7.492022-07-07 — best price $14.992022-10-24 — best price $7.492022-11-29 — best price $14.992023-03-16 — best price $7.492023-05-22 — best price $14.992023-11-21 — best price $3.742024-01-04 — best price $14.992024-05-27 — best price $3.742024-07-11 — best price $14.992024-11-27 — best price $3.742025-01-02 — best price $14.992025-06-26 — best price $3.742025-10-06 — best price $14.992026-03-19 — best price $3.742026-07-09 — best price $14.992026-09-07 — best price $14.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerMulti-playerCo-opOnline Co-opLAN Co-opSteam Trading CardsFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Player tags

3DIndieSandboxBuildingCraftingSurvivalSimulationExplorationMultiplayerOnline Co-Op

Census log

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

Players also track

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Similarity via IGDB.

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