Planetbase

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Planetbase

Short description

Guide a group of space settlers trying to establish a base on a remote planet. Grow food, collect energy, mine resources, survive disasters and build a self-sufficient colony in a harsh and unforgiving environment.

Developer
Madruga Works
Publisher
Madruga Works
Release
Thu, Oct 15, 2015
Price
$14.99
$7.49
50%
Reviews
9,590
Positive
80%
Followers
109,379
Owners (estimated)
1M – 2M
Concurrent players
193
Genres
Indie, Simulation, Strategy
Features
Steam Trading Cards, Steam Workshop
Tags
Colony Sim City Builder Base-Building Space Strategy Survival Simulation Sci-fi Resource Management Singleplayer Building Management Indie Sandbox Open World Space Sim Crafting RTS Atmospheric Adventure
Revenue (estimated, gross)~$6.1msomewhere between $2.7m and $28.3m · roughly 192K–2M copies

Review count and SteamSpy's owner range disagree, so the band is widened to cover both rather than picking a favourite. Multiplied by $14.15, the average price these copies actually sold for — weighted from the price history rather than taken from the $14.99 launch price. That is 6% below list price on average. Before Steam's cut, VAT and refunds. How these numbers are calculated.

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History

79 data points since Jul 30, 2026. Gaps mean nothing changed — the value carries forward.

Revenue (est.) ~$6m → ~$6.1m
Reviews 9,497 → 9,590
Followers 109,426 → 109,379
Concurrent players 193 → 193
Price $14.99 → $7.49
Positive reviews 79.8% → 79.9%

The revenue curve is an estimate, not a measurement. It is the only calculated series here: each interval takes the review growth of that period, multiplies it by the sales-per-review factor and by the price actually charged at the time, and adds the result to the running total. That is why it climbs more slowly through discount periods than the review curve next to it. The last point is the same figure quoted above — gross, before Steam's cut, VAT and refunds. How these numbers are calculated.

The blurred area is the rest of the history. 331 further data points reach back to Sep 1, 2015 — your plan shows the last 90 days of it. How far each series in particular reaches is written on its own chart; not every one of them goes back that far. The shape in the blurred area is decoration, not data: the figures are not in this page at all. Plus unlocks the complete series.

Lowest recorded price: $3.74 on Jun 13, 2025.

How crowded is this niche?

How full the niche around Planetbase is — measured on the tags it leads with, against every other combination on Steam.

±?? Colony Sim + City Builder + Base-Building

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Similar games that found an audience

Games sharing at least 3 of this title's leading tags, with enough reviews to have gone somewhere. Ranked by how much they overlap, not by how big they are. − missing and + extra mark the tags each one does not share with Planetbase. Studio counts the titles that developer has released — the closest thing to production scale that public data allows. It is not a budget, and nobody publishes those.

Image Name Studio Shared Tag difference Price Reviews Positive Released Revenue (estimated)
Surviving Mars Surviving Mars Haemimont Games 16 titles +1 6 same tags $29.99 17,453 79% Thu, Mar 15, 2018 $21.5m
$9.6m – $137m
IXION IXION Bulwark Studios 4 titles 5 − Base-Building + Resource Management $34.99 15,413 78% Wed, Dec 07, 2022 $35m
$35m – $43.1m
Space Haven Space Haven Bugbyte Ltd. 2 titles 5 − City Builder + Simulation $24.99 10,384 86% Wed, May 13, 2026 $9.8m
$4.4m – $10.5m
RimWorld RimWorld Ludeon Studios first game 4 − City Builder − Space + Sandbox + Management $34.99
$27.99
20%
best price ever
210,381 98% Wed, Oct 17, 2018 $331m
$175m – $350m
Northgard Northgard Shiro Games 7 titles 4 − Space − Survival + Simulation + RTS $34.99
$9.79
72%
54,547 85% Wed, Mar 07, 2018 $85.9m
$70m – $153m

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