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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!
In short, Steam reviewers most often praise “addictive, engaging, hooks players” (58 of 95 reviews) and “automated settlement and NPC systems” (23); the most common complaint is “repetitive, lacks originality” (11). What reviewers agree on ↓
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-28 · quoted reviews as of 2026-05-12.
What reviewers agree on
58 of the 95 reviews raise this.
“The real challenge for me it's to put these lazy villagers to work for the motherland. All the exploring, underworld, bosses, multiplayer, crafting it's icing on the cake. Great game and dirt cheap.”
“Fun game. Like Terraria but horizontal and with villagers that are not lazy”
“Absolutely a must buy and play if you enjoy these types of games. Havent used much of the settlers and NPC system myself but from what I've heard it's pretty good if you learn how to use it. To note this is all on a…”
23 of the 95 reviews raise this.
“The real challenge for me it's to put these lazy villagers to work for the motherland. All the exploring, underworld, bosses, multiplayer, crafting it's icing on the cake. Great game and dirt cheap.”
“Fun game. Like Terraria but horizontal and with villagers that are not lazy”
“Playing this game 2 player. 1 melee + 1 summoner. (Map difficulty Survival & Hard) We have really enjoyed the game right through though I am finding some frustrations in the endgame due to balancing issues with classes.…”
13 of the 95 reviews raise this.
“The real challenge for me it's to put these lazy villagers to work for the motherland. All the exploring, underworld, bosses, multiplayer, crafting it's icing on the cake. Great game and dirt cheap.”
“Playing this game 2 player. 1 melee + 1 summoner. (Map difficulty Survival & Hard) We have really enjoyed the game right through though I am finding some frustrations in the endgame due to balancing issues with classes.…”
“Genuinely amazing game!! massive recommendation, had a ton of fun playing with with my brother 9/10”
11 of the 95 reviews raise this.
“Great game. Mix of Terraria/Rimworld. Got well worth my money out of it before beating it.”
“Having an awesome time with this game. The automation systems within settlements remove so much busy-work, the loot is awesome, the progression is exciting, and I could honestly go on. As someone who has less time to…”
“Interesting game with loads of content. The continued support and additional content after release is awesome to see.”
8 of the 95 reviews raise this.
“Settlement Menu is kinda bad and more variety in weapons etc. would be nice but its definitely a good game. Has much potential.”
“Settlement Menu is kinda bad and more variety in weapons etc. would be nice but its definitely a good game. Has much potential.”
“Impressively fun and accessible with surprisingly good automation mechanics and UIX. Good creative depth and grind too; admirable performance optimization and modding support. In general, you can feel the love and care…”
11 of the 95 reviews raise this · 8 of them still recommend the game.
“I wanted to like this game but I can't think of anything I found that really made me want to keep playing. Despite what people say, this game isn't anything like Rimworld, its a top down Terraria. I got a decent amount…”
“like core keeper but without the fun”
“it a good game but it all over the place and that why it don't have is own identity best way to describe it but fun friendslop i like it ٩(๑❛ᴗ❛๑)۶”
6 of the 95 reviews raise this · 4 of them still recommend the game.
“I wanted to like this game but I can't think of anything I found that really made me want to keep playing. Despite what people say, this game isn't anything like Rimworld, its a top down Terraria. I got a decent amount…”
“Absolutely a must buy and play if you enjoy these types of games. Havent used much of the settlers and NPC system myself but from what I've heard it's pretty good if you learn how to use it. To note this is all on a…”
“The game is pretty neat and simple,a bit grindy if you just playing game...but god have mercy on you if you dare to do 100%,if only you knew how much time i spent to finish the game because funny trader guy didn't…”
4 of the 95 reviews raise this · 4 of them still recommend the game.
“Playing this game 2 player. 1 melee + 1 summoner. (Map difficulty Survival & Hard) We have really enjoyed the game right through though I am finding some frustrations in the endgame due to balancing issues with classes.…”
“Great fun for the price! Has a ton of content and is similar to Terraria in progression but with the option to have villagers that actually contribute. The only negatives I would give it is having to look up online how…”
“trying to play casually with bro who does husbandry stuff. so we are not sweating, but Sage and Grit boss battle just a little bit too BS, glitchy hitboxes and limited mobility due to ghost boots turning dash into 8…”
4 of the 95 reviews raise this · 4 of them still recommend the game.
“The game is pretty neat and simple,a bit grindy if you just playing game...but god have mercy on you if you dare to do 100%,if only you knew how much time i spent to finish the game because funny trader guy didn't…”
“Esse jogo é muito bom, porém acho ele um pouco curto, queria poder jogar e fazer mais coisas nele.”
“if u like minecraft terraria stardew valley in one game then is this the perfect game to combine all that but its not even a copy it still stands alone fine on its own the game is great and still gets updates which is…”
4 of the 95 reviews raise this · 3 of them still recommend the game.
“Early access till 2026 This has been the best game I ever played. And this is my first time ever writing to support any game. Multiplayer, 50% creative 50% adventure with quests. It has the retro art. And a LOT to do.…”
“trying to play casually with bro who does husbandry stuff. so we are not sweating, but Sage and Grit boss battle just a little bit too BS, glitchy hitboxes and limited mobility due to ghost boots turning dash into 8…”
“I paid my miner 150 coins to go farm me some iron and he ran off and died to a zombie within 5 seconds... 10/10”
Counted across 95 English reviews, sampled to match this game's 92.7% positive rating · as of 2026-05-12
“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“tl;dr Settlement system is peak Mindful of the grind Highly moddable 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 chunks of what normally slows down…”
— a player, Steam review · 564 hrs played“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 playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live data self-collected from the Steam API · history through 2026-06 via SteamCharts.
Achievement stats
Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-10-22.
Price tracking
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Latest official news
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Big news for Necesse and Fair Games!
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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
v.1.3.2 hotfix build 24650233
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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
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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.
| Genres | Action, Adventure, Indie, RPG |
| Player tags | Open World Survival Craft · Multiplayer · Open World · Sandbox · Pixel Graphics · Indie · Adventure · Survival · Crafting · Early Access · RPG · Co-op (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Multi-player · PvP · Online PvP · LAN PvP · Co-op · Online Co-op · LAN Co-op |
| Languages | English, Russian, Portuguese - Brazil, German, Simplified Chinese, Czech, Japanese, Spanish - Spain, Spanish - Latin America, Traditional Chinese, French, Hungarian, Korean, Turkish, Ukrainian, Italian, Danish, Dutch, Fi… |
| Controller | Full support |
| Achievements | 48 |
| Official site | https://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.