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Land your crew of survivors on an abandoned island and survive! Mine raw materials, grow food, build factories, manufacture products, research new tech, and trade with others. Become an industrial superpower! But this is no easy task, you will be put to the test to keep your settlement alive.

Early AccessMay 31, 2022
Price$ 29.99  Top 3%
Steam Rating (Steam Purchases / All)93.6% (very positive) Top 15% / 93.6%  Top 15%
Steam DB Rating (Steam Purchases / All)90.1% Top 4% / 90.1%  Top 3%
Reviews (Steam Purchases / All)4.3K  Top 5% / 4.6K  Top 5%
Curators49 reviews  Top 15%
Median Play Time88.8 hours  Top 1%
Play Time per Dollar3 hours  Top 5%
Followers58.7K  Top 2%
Owners± 255.9K  Top 10%
Copies Sold± 242.5K  Top 5%
Gross Revenue ($)± 5.7M  Top 3%

Rating and Reviews (Monthly)
  

Chart showing the monthly evolution of Captain of Industry steam rating, positive and negative reviews.

Here you can see Captain of Industry's Steam rating and reviews between May 2022 and December 2023. Steam's rating oscillates between 89.2% (May 2022) and 93.6% (October 2023), with relatively small variations.

Captain of Industry is an AAA level success, with 4.6K reviews Top 5%. The chart suggests a long tail distribution, which could mean that the game was promoted at laucnch but that there were no more marketing, update or major discounts after that point.

Review Languages
 

Donut graph showing review languages for Captain of Industry and the proportion of players they represent.

This donut graph displays the languages of Captain of Industry's Steam reviews. The most popular language is English (54%), followed by German (13%). The player's languages are well diversified, with 26 different languages appearing in the reviews. The game has been translated in 20 languages.

Time Played

Chart displaying Captain of Industry percentiles of time played for positive, negative, and early access reviews.

This chart displays the time players have spent in Captain of Industry depending if the reviewer left a positive or a negative review. You can also see the reviews during the Early Access phase. Notice how the time in game reaches a stellar 243 hours in the 80th percentile.

The negative reviews play time is 13 times lower than the positive reviews median play time. Some Captain of Industry players left negative reviews after playing for a long time (more than 80 hours for the top 20%), it can be a sign that a part of the fanbase was displeased about the evolution of the game and decided to review bomb it. You could check if there is an explanation in the Players' feedback section.

Players' Feedback

Game's StrengthsGame's Weaknesses
  • logistic game
  • tons of fun
  • challenging resource management
  • detailed tutorial
  • easy to understand UI
  • QoL mechanics
  • realism-based industrial chains
  • terraforming with terrain physics
  • slow progression with efficient recipes
  • abundance of control and QoL features
  • lack of tutorial
  • performance issues on larger factories
  • lack of large-scale strategic decisions
  • limited replayability
  • limited depth compared to Factorio
  • janky mining area tools

These advantages and disadvantages are not meant to provide a fair assessment of the game, but to help developers identify potential improvements. The game's rating of 93.6%  Top 15% should be taken into account when assessing them.

Please take this list with a grain of salt, as this is an AI generated list based on a small sample of Captain of Industry's review data provided by Steam. You don't always need to solve every issue. What some players hate might be what your fanbase loves.

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