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Walkabout cover art

Walkabout

Wafflesoft · 2018-09-19

Steam

ActionAdventureIndieEarly Access

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: First person

Releases: Sep 20, 2018 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Survive in a realistic Tasmanian wilderness recreated with real‑world data. The land is beautiful, harsh, and indifferent to your survival.

Walkabout is a 2018 Action, Adventure, Indie, and Early Access game priced at $4.99, with an estimated 0 .. 20,000 owners and a Mixed review sentiment (62% of 61 reviews).

62%
positive of 61 reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
70/100
IGDB user rating (0 ratings)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$4.99
steam price (US)

Outback is an end of the world survival game set in Australia. This is one of the harshest environments in the world and staying alive is already a challenge. However, it gets worse because the world is ending. Good luck staying alive.(Storyline via IGDB)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 6 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 45% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 48% of 27,649 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-02

Estimated sales: 1.5k–3.7k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 61 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.49 at Steam (2019-03-03)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $4.99 · on sale 1 of 2 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
4420182025Week of 2018-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2019-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$12.99$0.492018-09-202026-01-052018-09-20 — best price $12.992018-10-03 — best price $12.992018-11-01 — best price $12.992018-12-21 — best price $3.992019-01-26 — best price $3.992019-02-04 — best price $3.992019-03-03 — best price $0.492019-04-09 — best price $1.992019-04-18 — best price $1.992019-05-27 — best price $1.992019-07-13 — best price $0.992019-09-30 — best price $0.992019-10-28 — best price $0.992019-11-26 — best price $0.992019-12-20 — best price $0.992020-01-23 — best price $4.992020-02-10 — best price $4.992021-05-31 — best price $4.992021-07-08 — best price $4.992021-11-01 — best price $4.992021-12-01 — best price $4.992022-01-05 — best price $4.992022-02-03 — best price $4.992022-07-07 — best price $4.992022-08-08 — best price $4.992025-03-20 — best price $4.992025-07-10 — best price $4.992025-10-12 — best price $4.992026-01-05 — best price $4.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportCustom Volume ControlsPlayable without Timed InputFamily Sharing

14 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Arabic, Czech, Danish, Greek, Japanese, Portuguese - Portugal, Russian…

Player tags

PvENatureShooterCraftingSurvivalDifficultRealisticOpen WorldAtmosphericEarly Access

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.