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Viticulture Essential Edition cover art

Viticulture Essential Edition

DIGIDICED · 2020-07-10

Steam

CasualIndieStrategy

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Split screen

Releases: Jul 10, 2020 (Linux), Jul 10, 2020 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Jul 10, 2020 (Mac)

This is the official digital adaption of the boardgame Viticulture by Jamey Stegmaier & Alan Stone.

Viticulture Essential Edition is a 2020 Casual, Indie, and Strategy game priced at $14.99, with a Mixed review sentiment (69% of 242 reviews) and an owner estimate of 20,000 .. 50,000.

2
playing now
69%
positive of 242 reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$14.99
steam price (US)

2 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 07:00 UTC (census sample)

This is the official digital adaption of the boardgame Viticulture by Jamey Stegmaier & Alan Stone. You find yourself in rustic, pre-modern Tuscany, where you’ve inherited a meager vineyard. You own a few plots of land, an old crush pad, a tiny cellar, 3 workers…and the dream of owning the best winery in Italy. Your job is to allocate your workers and helpful visitors to complete various tasks throughout the year. Each season is different on a vineyard, so the workers have different tasks they can take care of in the summer and winter. There’s competition over those tasks, and often the firs(Storyline via IGDB)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 2 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 20 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~3/week).
  • · Review velocity up 25% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 19% of 29,056 Casual games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-01

Estimated sales: 4.8k–11k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 242 total reviews — how this is computed.

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
262620202026Week of 2020-07-01: 26 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 20 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 2 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

1102026-09-15 08:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 16:00 — 2 players2026-09-17 23:00 — 5 players2026-09-19 07:00 — 2 players2026-09-20 14:00 — 5 players2026-09-21 22:00 — 2 players2026-09-23 06:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 13:00 — 2 players2026-09-25 21:00 — 2 players2026-09-27 04:00 — 1 players2026-09-28 12:00 — 5 players2026-09-29 19:00 — 5 players2026-10-01 03:00 — 1 players2026-10-02 10:00 — 1 players2026-10-03 18:00 — 3 players2026-10-05 02:00 — 5 players2026-10-06 10:00 — 2 players2026-10-07 17:00 — 5 players2026-10-09 01:00 — 4 players2026-10-10 08:00 — 4 players2026-10-11 16:00 — 7 players2026-10-12 23:00 — 1 players2026-10-14 07:00 — 2 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
123Jul 2020Aug 2026Jul 2020 — avg 12 · peak 37Sep 2020 — avg 4 · peak 16Nov 2020 — avg 5 · peak 17Jan 2021 — avg 7 · peak 29Mar 2021 — avg 6 · peak 18May 2021 — avg 5 · peak 14Jul 2021 — avg 5 · peak 15Sep 2021 — avg 3 · peak 12Nov 2021 — avg 3 · peak 10Jan 2022 — avg 7 · peak 21Mar 2022 — avg 5 · peak 15May 2022 — avg 3 · peak 11Jul 2022 — avg 4 · peak 9Sep 2022 — avg 4 · peak 13Nov 2022 — avg 5 · peak 14Jan 2023 — avg 6 · peak 18Mar 2023 — avg 9 · peak 20May 2023 — avg 4 · peak 15Jul 2023 — avg 5 · peak 15Sep 2023 — avg 5 · peak 15Nov 2023 — avg 5 · peak 16Jan 2024 — avg 6 · peak 14Mar 2024 — avg 6 · peak 19May 2024 — avg 5 · peak 14Jul 2024 — avg 5 · peak 16Sep 2024 — avg 4 · peak 15Nov 2024 — avg 7 · peak 16Jan 2025 — avg 6 · peak 19Mar 2025 — avg 5 · peak 12May 2025 — avg 4 · peak 12Jul 2025 — avg 3 · peak 10Sep 2025 — avg 3 · peak 8Dec 2025 — avg 4 · peak 13Feb 2026 — avg 5 · peak 14Apr 2026 — avg 4 · peak 13Jun 2026 — avg 4 · peak 10Aug 2026 — avg 3 · peak 11
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$14.99$8.992020-07-102021-01-052020-07-10 — best price $10.492020-07-17 — best price $14.992020-10-29 — best price $10.492020-11-02 — best price $14.992020-11-25 — best price $10.492020-12-01 — best price $14.992020-12-22 — best price $8.992021-01-05 — best price $14.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

5
achievements tracked
10.8%
earned "Noob "
0.6%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxSingle-playerMulti-playerPvPOnline PvPShared/Split Screen PvPShared/Split ScreenCross-Platform MultiplayerSteam AchievementsSteam Turn NotificationsRemote Play Together1 DLC

8 supported languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Simplified Chinese

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2023-02-20 (Steam store data)

Player tags

2DCuteIndieCasualClassicStrategyTabletopDifficultBoard GameTurn-Based

Census log

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

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