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Xsyon - Prelude cover art

Xsyon - Prelude

Notorious Games · 2014-12-29

Steam

IndieMassively MultiplayerRPGEarly Access

Modes: Multiplayer, Massively Multiplayer Online (MMO)

Releases: Dec 29, 2014 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Xsyon is a player driven apocalyptic fantasy sandbox MMORPG, set in a living and evolving environment. Players create the world they want to live in as they form tribes, construct towns, shape landscapes, create quests, hunt, farm, gather, build societies and develop a New World.

73%
positive of 368 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
60/100
IGDB user rating (0 ratings)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$29.99
steam price (US)
Xsyon is a sandbox massively multiplayer online role-playing game developed by the independent company, Notorious Games. Xsyon is set in an apocalyptic fantasy environment, closely modeled on the real world area of Lake Tahoe which spans the California and Nevada border, west of Carson City using US Geological Survey data. Xsyon is a persistent world crafting sandbox game. It has been designed to have a completely player-driven economy and player-created questing system. This is unusual among MMORPGs, which often rely upon non-player character vendors and quest givers to perform these functions. Xsyon can be found on many sandbox MMORPG game lists. The game world is currently both Player versus Environment (PvE) and open Player versus Player (PvP), with players being safe from other players only in the starter area and on their own tribe land.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 9 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity up 0% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 20% of 44,218 Indie games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 9.2k–22k copies

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

All-time low: $7.49 at Steam (2020-12-22)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $29.99 · on sale 8 of 15 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
101020142026Week of 2014-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-01-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2015-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2015-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-03-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2015-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2015-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-05-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2015-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2015-06-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2015-06-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2015-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2015-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2015-09-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2015-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2015-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2015-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2015-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-01-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2016-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-02-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2016-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-05-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2016-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2016-06-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2016-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2016-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2016-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2016-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-12-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2016-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2017-01-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2017-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2017-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-04-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2017-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2017-05-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2017-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-06-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2017-07-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2017-08-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2017-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2017-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-01-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2018-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-01-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-06-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-12-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-09-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$29.99$7.492015-01-012026-08-312015-01-01 — best price $25.492015-05-04 — best price $29.992015-11-09 — best price $14.992016-02-12 — best price $29.992016-06-23 — best price $22.492016-09-26 — best price $29.992016-12-22 — best price $14.992017-05-01 — best price $29.992017-10-26 — best price $14.992018-01-04 — best price $29.992018-06-21 — best price $14.992018-11-01 — best price $29.992019-02-04 — best price $14.992019-06-17 — best price $29.992019-11-26 — best price $14.992020-03-30 — best price $29.992020-07-23 — best price $9.892020-11-02 — best price $29.992020-12-22 — best price $7.492021-03-01 — best price $29.992021-06-14 — best price $9.892021-08-23 — best price $29.992021-11-24 — best price $9.892022-01-05 — best price $29.992022-05-16 — best price $9.892022-08-08 — best price $29.992022-11-22 — best price $9.892023-01-05 — best price $29.992023-03-16 — best price $9.892023-07-24 — best price $29.992023-11-21 — best price $9.892024-01-04 — best price $29.992024-06-27 — best price $9.892024-10-14 — best price $29.992024-12-19 — best price $7.492025-03-20 — best price $29.992026-01-12 — best price $29.992026-05-11 — best price $7.492026-07-20 — best price $29.992026-08-31 — best price $29.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

1202026-07-09 — 6 pageviews2026-07-12 — 3 pageviews2026-07-15 — 4 pageviews2026-07-18 — 3 pageviews2026-07-21 — 4 pageviews2026-07-24 — 2 pageviews2026-07-27 — 5 pageviews2026-07-30 — 6 pageviews2026-08-02 — 2 pageviews2026-08-05 — 6 pageviews2026-08-08 — 12 pageviews2026-08-11 — 5 pageviews2026-08-14 — 5 pageviews2026-08-17 — 2 pageviews2026-08-20 — 6 pageviews2026-08-23 — 4 pageviews2026-08-26 — 10 pageviews2026-08-29 — 3 pageviews2026-09-01 — 4 pageviews2026-09-04 — 2 pageviews2026-09-07 — 2 pageviews2026-09-10 — 5 pageviews2026-09-13 — 5 pageviews2026-09-16 — 0 pageviews2026-09-19 — 3 pageviews2026-09-22 — 4 pageviews2026-09-25 — 1 pageviews2026-09-28 — 3 pageviews2026-10-01 — 8 pageviews2026-10-04 — 6 pageviews2026-10-06 — 3 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsMulti-playerMMOFamily Sharing

Player tags

RPGActionMMORPGSandboxBuildingCraftingSurvivalAction RPGOpen WorldExploration

Census log

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

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