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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 2026-07-26)

What players say

Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Data as of 2026-05-20.

93.7%positive17,071 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 93.7% positive rating · as of 2026-05-20

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 count fetched 2026-07-11 10:18 UTC · history via SteamCharts.

755playing at last check
1,00024-hour peak
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 2026-07-25.

48achievements
17.8%median completion
0.5%rarest: Complete Collector
90.6% of players 67.9% of players 65.6% of players 63.4% of players 59.2% of players 56.4% of players 54.1% of players 51.9% of players 48.6% of players 48.2% of players 46.6% of players 46.6% of players 42.9% of players 38.5% of players 38.3% of players 37.8% of players 35.1% of players 30.1% of players 29.9% of players 27.2% of players 27.1% of players 26.4% of players 23.7% of players 22.2% of players 17.8% of players 14.3% of players 11.0% of players 10.7% of players 10.6% of players 9.9% of players 9.8% of players 9.1% of players 8.0% of players 5.2% of players 4.0% of players 3.2% of players 2.5% of players 2.1% of players 1.7% of players 1.3% of players 1.3% of players 1.2% of players 0.9% of players 0.7% of players 0.7% of players 0.7% of players 0.7% of players 0.5% of players 90.6% 0% most earned rarest
Almost everyone has
90.6%Spelunker — Be careful to not get lost!
67.9%Watch Me! — Equip your first trinket ability
65.6%Instant Nap — Change your spawn point
Rarest badges of honor
0.5%Complete Collector — Obtain all possible items
0.7%You and what Army? — Have 10 settlers in your adventure party equip a tier 5 or higher armor set and weapon
0.7%Me and this Army! — Defeat an incursion boss with only damage from settlers

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 2026-07-26 08:39 UTC
$14.99lowest since tracking began2026-07-11
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≈$17

Cheapest → most expensive, converted to USD at ECB reference rates (2026-07-24). Relative comparison only.

$0 $10 $20 07-11 07-13 07-16 07-19 07-22 07-26

Latest official news

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

Jul 17, 2026
The Necesse Rust & Romance Update is dropping on July 30th!

Hey everyone! It’s been a while, and you’ve been patient with us. But now it’s finally time for us to share what we’ve been working on for the last 6 months. Enjoy this brand new trailer for the Neces

May 29, 2026
v.1.2.0 hotfix build 23470192

This small update includes a fix for recent AMD driver issues as well as localization changes. We're of course still working hard on the summer update, and excited to share more soon! Changelog: Added

May 26, 2026
Necesse 35% discount and new bundle

Hey everyone! We're hard at work on our large summer update, but we wanted to let you know Necesse is currently 35% off on Steam. We recently released the Secrets Update and if you haven't had the tim

Apr 09, 2026
The Necesse Secrets update is now live!

The Necesse Secrets update is now live! We’re also running a 35% sale on Necesse to celebrate the update! As always, if you haven’t gotten the update on Steam yet, then try to restart Steam or verify

Apr 03, 2026
Necesse Secrets update is dropping on April 9th!

Hey everyone! This Thursday on April 9th, we’re releasing a small update that adds a bunch of secrets for you to find in Necesse! Some will be cosmetic, while others will be new weapons and trinkets.

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Screenshots

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Facts & details

From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-20.

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
Estimated owners1,000,000 – 2,000,000 (SteamSpy)
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.