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Walking Simulator

Pugscape · 2020-03-05

Steam

AdventureFree To PlayIndieSimulation

Modes: Single player

Releases: Mar 05, 2020 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

The year is 2020, world war III destroyed the civilized world. You are the last post carrier, tasked to get parcels from point A to B in the most barren and desolate places on earth.

Walking Simulator is an Adventure, Free To Play, Indie, Simulation game released in 2020, with an estimated 200,000 .. 500,000 owners, priced at free-to-play, and holding a Very Positive review sentiment (88% of 9468 reviews).

1
playing now
88%
positive of 9.5k reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
60/100
IGDB user rating (10 ratings)
silver
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
Free
steam price (US)

1 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 12:00 UTC (census sample)

Trailer

Walking Simulator trailer thumbnail

Walking Simulator 2020 Trailer

≈582,295 YouTube results for this game's trailer search

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 1 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 148 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~19/week).
  • · Review velocity down 29% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (2,096 reviews).
  • · Top 4% of 28,748 Adventure games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-30

All-time low: $3.49 at Steam (2025-01-17)via IsThereAnyDeal

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
1.8k1.8k20202026Week of 2020-03-01: 1,838 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 258 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 665 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 129 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 599 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 66 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 318 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 49 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 297 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 45 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 211 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 42 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 179 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 25 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 180 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 31 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 871 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 55 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 210 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 32 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 209 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 44 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 172 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 24 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 154 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 32 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 156 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 26 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 161 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 30 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 189 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 28 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 158 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 27 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 176 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 25 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 138 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 147 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 19 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 113 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 107 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 20 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 135 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 92 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 58 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 66 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 44 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 57 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 55 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 50 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 37 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 40 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 26 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 55 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 53 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 37 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 26 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 30 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 33 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 32 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 34 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 32 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 47 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 60 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 28 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 34 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 83 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 55 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 49 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 46 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 34 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 36 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 33 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 28 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 41 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 28 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 2 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

402026-09-15 13:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 21:00 — 1 players2026-09-18 05:00 — 1 players2026-09-19 12:00 — 4 players2026-09-20 20:00 — 2 players2026-09-22 04:00 — 2 players2026-09-23 11:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 19:00 — 0 players2026-09-26 02:00 — 1 players2026-09-27 10:00 — 1 players2026-09-28 17:00 — 1 players2026-09-30 01:00 — 0 players2026-10-01 08:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 16:00 — 1 players2026-10-03 23:00 — 1 players2026-10-05 07:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 15:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 22:00 — 0 players2026-10-09 06:00 — 1 players2026-10-10 13:00 — 1 players2026-10-11 21:00 — 1 players2026-10-13 05:00 — 1 players2026-10-14 12:00 — 1 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
1702Mar 2020Aug 2026Mar 2020 — avg 170 · peak 430May 2020 — avg 63 · peak 198Jul 2020 — avg 31 · peak 60Sep 2020 — avg 22 · peak 44Nov 2020 — avg 21 · peak 47Jan 2021 — avg 21 · peak 48Mar 2021 — avg 18 · peak 41May 2021 — avg 17 · peak 35Jul 2021 — avg 17 · peak 43Sep 2021 — avg 17 · peak 37Nov 2021 — avg 16 · peak 42Jan 2022 — avg 14 · peak 35Mar 2022 — avg 8 · peak 23May 2022 — avg 5 · peak 13Jul 2022 — avg 6 · peak 15Sep 2022 — avg 6 · peak 15Nov 2022 — avg 5 · peak 18Jan 2023 — avg 5 · peak 15Mar 2023 — avg 4 · peak 13May 2023 — avg 3 · peak 9Jul 2023 — avg 4 · peak 12Sep 2023 — avg 4 · peak 13Nov 2023 — avg 5 · peak 15Jan 2024 — avg 10 · peak 26Mar 2024 — avg 7 · peak 22May 2024 — avg 10 · peak 26Jul 2024 — avg 7 · peak 16Sep 2024 — avg 8 · peak 22Nov 2024 — avg 6 · peak 19Jan 2025 — avg 5 · peak 16Mar 2025 — avg 4 · peak 10May 2025 — avg 4 · peak 11Jul 2025 — avg 4 · peak 10Sep 2025 — avg 2 · peak 10Apr 2026 — avg 2 · peak 9Jun 2026 — avg 2 · peak 6Aug 2026 — avg 2 · peak 6
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Completion

9
achievements tracked
67.7%
earned "1 Like"
10.9%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerFamily Sharing

Where its players are

Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.

Player tags

FunnyIndieMemesCasualParody AdventureRealisticOpen WorldSimulationStory Rich

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.