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Necesse

Necesse

Build, quest, and conquer across an infinite procedurally generated world. Play alone or with friends as you establish a settlement and explore deep dungeons, fight monsters and bosses, mine rare ores, craft magical equipment, recruit specialists for your colony, and more!

Released Oct 16, 2025 Developer Fair Games ApS Platforms Windows · Mac · Linux Open World Survival CraftMultiplayerOpen WorldSandboxPixel Graphics
View on Steam ↗ $14.99 (US · as of 2026-09-05)

What players say

Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-02 · quoted reviews as of 2026-05-12.

92.7%positive28,925 reviews

What reviewers agree on

Praised
Criticised
Bar length = how many of the 95 reviews raise the point On criticised points, the pale part = reviewers who still recommend the game Select a point to see the exact counts and what reviewers wrote.

Counted across 95 English reviews, sampled to match this game's 92.7% positive rating · as of 2026-05-12

Recommended · 36 found this helpful

“Highly recommend this game. I play it with my son who is 11. We have a blast and it's a great bonding time. Like the one time we were going to defeat a summoned boss and he assumed he was summoning and I also assumed I was summoning and then 2 summoned bosses came and chaos and…”

— a player, Steam review · 46 hrs played
Recommended · 3 found this helpful

“[h1]tl;dr[/h1] [list][*]Settlement system is peak [*]Mindful of the grind [*]Highly moddable [hr][/hr] Necesse is a top-down sandbox game with an extreme amount of QoL put into it. Things that are normally tedious in other sandbox games have systems here that alleviate large…”

— a player, Steam review · 564 hrs played
Recommended · 3 found this helpful

“If I had to pick between this and Core Keeper, it would be this. The village management aspect makes it really fun and worthwhile to go through the effort as you end up with a small army of farmers and picker-packers that manage all your chests and crafting for you, so that you…”

— a player, Steam review · 39 hrs played
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Player activity

Monthly average concurrent players. Live data self-collected from the Steam API · history through 2026-06 via SteamCharts.

29,192all-time peak
0 5k 10k 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 7.5k avg · Oct 2025

Achievement stats

Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-09-05.

52achievements
11.3%median completion
0.0%rarest: Speeding Ticket
90.0% of players 69.8% of players 64.5% of players 63.1% of players 58.6% of players 55.3% of players 54.1% of players 51.8% of players 47.7% of players 47.6% of players 46.2% of players 45.8% of players 42.4% of players 37.8% of players 37.1% of players 37.0% of players 34.4% of players 29.6% of players 29.4% of players 27.7% of players 27.6% of players 27.0% of players 24.4% of players 22.0% of players 17.7% of players 14.1% of players 11.3% of players 11.1% of players 10.5% of players 10.1% of players 9.5% of players 9.2% of players 7.8% of players 5.3% of players 4.1% of players 3.3% of players 2.6% of players 2.5% of players 2.3% of players 1.7% of players 1.5% of players 1.3% of players 1.2% of players 0.9% of players 0.8% of players 0.7% of players 0.7% of players 0.7% of players 0.5% of players 0.3% of players 0.2% of players 0.0% of players 90.0% 0% most earned rarest
Almost everyone has
90.0%Spelunker — Be careful to not get lost!
69.8%Watch Me! — Equip your first trinket ability
64.5%Instant Nap — Change your spawn point
Rarest badges of honor
0.0%Speeding Ticket — Achieve MAXIMUM speed while driving a Bumper Car
0.2%True Love — Become Life Partners with one of your Settlers
0.3%Cloud Ten — Achieve Unrivaled Quality of Life on 10 settlers at the same time

Price tracking

US-region pricing (USD), sampled twice daily by our own tracker since 2026-07-11. Steam prices vary by region — always confirm your local price on Steam.

$14.99current · sampled 2026-09-05 20:23 UTC
$7.49lowest since tracking began2026-07-30
US14.99 USD
EU14.99 EUR
UK12.99 GBP
Australia21.95 AUD
Canada19.95 CAD
Japan1,699 JPY
Brazil46.99 BRL
China58.00 CNY

Regional prices at last sample, in local currency — Steam sets each region's price independently.

China≈$8.6 Brazil Japan Canada US Australia EU UK≈$18

Cheapest → most expensive, converted to USD at ECB reference rates (2026-09-04). Relative comparison only.

$0 $10 $20 07-11 07-21 08-01 08-13 08-24 09-05

Latest official news

Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.

Aug 25, 2026
v.1.3.3 - Small tweaks and bug fixes

Hey everyone! We're working on the next big thing for Necesse, but you guys keep finding smaller things and bugs we'd like to fix :D This patch (version 1.3.3) requires servers/hosts to update. You ca

Aug 10, 2026
v.1.3.2 hotfix build 24650233

You can still join servers that have not been updated, but many of the changes/fixes will only work on updated servers. Changelog: Settlers will now despawn summons after 10 seconds of not being in co

Aug 05, 2026
v.1.3.2 - More small tweaks and hotfixes

Hey everyone! Hope you have a nice week! This patch requires servers/hosts to update their game. Changes Added recipe for Scrap Floor to the Fallen Landscaping Station. Added recipe for Big Scrap Heap

Jul 31, 2026
v.1.3.1 - Small tweaks and hotfixes

Hey everyone! Hope you're enjoying the new update! Version 1.3.1 requires servers/hosts to update. 1.3.1 changes Changed bee summons movement slightly to fix issue with them not chasing targets correc

Jul 30, 2026
Necesse Rust & Romance Update + Steam Free Weekend is now live!

The Necesse Rust & Romance Update is now live! As always, if you haven’t gotten the update on Steam yet, then try to restart Steam or verify game files. This also means that the Necesse Steam Free Wee

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Screenshots

Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.

Facts & details

From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-12.

GenresAction, Adventure, Indie, RPG
Player tagsOpen World Survival Craft · Multiplayer · Open World · Sandbox · Pixel Graphics · Indie · Adventure · Survival · Crafting · Early Access · RPG · Co-op (SteamSpy community voting)
FeaturesSingle-player · Multi-player · PvP · Online PvP · LAN PvP · Co-op · Online Co-op · LAN Co-op
LanguagesEnglish, Russian, Portuguese - Brazil, German, Simplified Chinese, Czech, Japanese, Spanish - Spain, Spanish - Latin America, Traditional Chinese, French, Hungarian, Korean, Turkish, Ukrainian, Italian, Danish, Dutch, Fi…
ControllerFull support
Achievements48
Official sitehttps://necessegame.com/
Minimum system requirements (PC)

Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS: Windows® 10 (64-bit) Processor: Intel® Core™ i3-4160 (dual-core) / AMD® FX-Series™ FX-4350 (quad-core) Memory: 4 GB RAM Graphics: NVIDIA® GeForce® GT 440 (1 GB) / AMD® Radeon™ HD 6570 (1 GB) Storage: 500 MB available space Additional Notes: Some Intel graphics drivers seems to be causing regular crashes and we're trying to look into that.