The Game Census
Wayward cover art

Wayward

Unlok · 2016-04-22

Steam

AdventureIndieRPGSimulationEarly Access

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative · Perspectives: Bird view / Isometric

Releases: Apr 22, 2016 (Linux), Apr 22, 2016 (Mac), Apr 22, 2016 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

You awake to discover yourself no longer in the company of good men or a fine seafaring vessel. Treasure... you remember something about treasure. Wayward is a challenging turn-based, top-down, wilderness survival roguelike. Explore, build, and most importantly survive in these unforgiving lands.

Wayward is an Adventure, Indie, RPG, Simulation game released in 2016, priced at $7.99, with Very Positive (86% of 1368 reviews) and an owner estimate of 50,000 .. 100,000.

16
playing now
86%
positive of 1.4k reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
80/100
IGDB user rating (4 ratings)
3
Nexus mods (62 downloads)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$7.99
steam price (US)

16 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 17:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 16 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 33 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~4/week).
  • · Review velocity down 21% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 12% of 28,739 Adventure games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-31

Estimated sales: 34k–82k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 1,368 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $5.59 at Steam (2019-05-18) · bundled 3×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $7.99 · on sale 15 of 24 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
272720172026Week of 2017-12-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2018-01-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2018-02-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2018-03-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2018-05-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2018-06-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2018-07-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2018-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2018-09-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-10-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-12-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-01-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-02-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2019-03-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2019-04-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2019-05-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-06-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-08-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-10-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-11-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-12-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-02-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2020-03-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

1752026-09-15 02:00 — 17 players2026-09-16 11:00 — 9 players2026-09-17 18:00 — 11 players2026-09-19 02:00 — 10 players2026-09-20 09:00 — 8 players2026-09-21 17:00 — 15 players2026-09-23 00:00 — 9 players2026-09-24 08:00 — 9 players2026-09-25 15:00 — 9 players2026-09-26 23:00 — 11 players2026-09-28 06:00 — 8 players2026-09-29 14:00 — 10 players2026-09-30 21:00 — 9 players2026-10-02 05:00 — 6 players2026-10-03 12:00 — 11 players2026-10-04 21:00 — 15 players2026-10-06 04:00 — 10 players2026-10-07 12:00 — 9 players2026-10-08 19:00 — 11 players2026-10-10 03:00 — 14 players2026-10-11 10:00 — 15 players2026-10-12 18:00 — 13 players2026-10-14 01:00 — 14 players2026-10-14 17:00 — 16 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
500Mar 2016Aug 2026Mar 2016 — avg 0 · peak 1Jul 2016 — avg 14 · peak 44Nov 2016 — avg 12 · peak 52Mar 2017 — avg 10 · peak 25Jul 2017 — avg 13 · peak 27Nov 2017 — avg 21 · peak 55Mar 2018 — avg 25 · peak 48Jul 2018 — avg 28 · peak 70Nov 2018 — avg 26 · peak 70Mar 2019 — avg 23 · peak 49Jul 2019 — avg 17 · peak 36Nov 2019 — avg 23 · peak 51Mar 2020 — avg 28 · peak 62Jul 2020 — avg 29 · peak 112Nov 2020 — avg 17 · peak 37Mar 2021 — avg 16 · peak 36Jul 2021 — avg 29 · peak 60Nov 2021 — avg 20 · peak 52Mar 2022 — avg 21 · peak 46Jul 2022 — avg 35 · peak 97Nov 2022 — avg 32 · peak 68Mar 2023 — avg 19 · peak 40Jul 2023 — avg 30 · peak 59Nov 2023 — avg 18 · peak 34Mar 2024 — avg 18 · peak 40Jul 2024 — avg 16 · peak 29Nov 2024 — avg 18 · peak 42Mar 2025 — avg 15 · peak 31Jul 2025 — avg 18 · peak 36Nov 2025 — avg 22 · peak 48Mar 2026 — avg 19 · peak 46Jul 2026 — avg 18 · peak 37Aug 2026 — avg 15 · peak 23
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$7.99$5.592016-04-222026-07-092016-04-22 — best price $7.192017-04-11 — best price $6.792017-11-18 — best price $7.992018-05-10 — best price $6.792019-01-10 — best price $6.392019-09-12 — best price $7.992020-01-22 — best price $6.392020-05-21 — best price $7.992020-06-15 — best price $7.992020-07-25 — best price $6.392020-08-29 — best price $5.642020-09-19 — best price $7.092020-10-15 — best price $7.992020-11-07 — best price $7.092020-11-29 — best price $7.992020-12-22 — best price $6.392021-01-12 — best price $7.992021-02-19 — best price $7.092021-03-14 — best price $7.992021-04-05 — best price $7.092021-04-27 — best price $7.092021-06-03 — best price $7.092021-10-07 — best price $7.992022-01-06 — best price $7.092022-05-10 — best price $7.092022-09-17 — best price $7.092022-11-29 — best price $7.992023-05-11 — best price $7.992023-08-07 — best price $7.992024-03-14 — best price $5.992024-07-31 — best price $7.992025-01-02 — best price $7.992025-07-03 — best price $5.992026-01-30 — best price $5.892026-07-09 — best price $7.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxSingle-playerMulti-playerPvPOnline PvPLAN PvPCo-opOnline Co-opLAN Co-opCross-Platform MultiplayerSteam Workshop2 DLC

1 supported languages: English

Post-launch support: 2 DLC released, first 2019-02-01 (Steam store data)

Player tags

2DRPGIndieSandboxCraftingSurvivalAdventureOpen WorldRogue-likeSimulation

Census log

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

Recent updates

Players also track

MiscreatedSavage LandsRising WorldCitadel: Forged with FireForce of NatureEternity: The Last UnicornCHANGE: A Homeless Survival ExperienceTorchlight III

Similarity via IGDB.

Discord ↗Official site ↗Reddit ↗