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Phoning Home

Phoning Home

A tale of survival about two shipwrecked robots - ION and ANI - on their life-defining journey in this unique genre-mix of exploration, puzzle and survival.

Released Feb 7, 2017 Developer ION LANDS Platforms Windows AdventureActionIndieSurvivalOpen World Survival Craft
View on Steam ↗ Free (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.

68.7%positive1,046 reviews
Not recommended · 0 found this helpful

“At first is seems as a cute game. But even in the first minutes you can feel the little annoyances that will come later. Resources don't renew, so you might end up with a bunch useless items and not be able to finish the quest. You lack sensors, so the only one you have (apart…”

— a player, Steam review · 2 hrs played
Not recommended · 0 found this helpful

“https://youtu.be/_P8yVVnosWE Unable to run in it's current state on modern systems, whatever this title was is no more.”

— a player, Steam review · 4 hrs played
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Player activity

Monthly average concurrent players. Live count fetched 2026-07-11 12:30 UTC · history via SteamCharts.

0playing at last check
124-hour peak
212all-time peak
0 25 50 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 24 avg · Feb 2017

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.

52achievements
8.1%median completion
2.8%rarest: Quiet Symphony
80.5% of players 53.7% of players 41.5% of players 38.2% of players 34.2% of players 33.4% of players 31.2% of players 30.3% of players 29.6% of players 26.1% of players 23.6% of players 20.8% of players 16.3% of players 14.9% of players 13.9% of players 13.9% of players 13.2% of players 13.1% of players 12.7% of players 11.9% of players 11.3% of players 10.9% of players 10.4% of players 9.5% of players 8.7% of players 8.5% of players 8.1% of players 7.4% of players 7.1% of players 7.0% of players 7.0% of players 6.9% of players 5.6% of players 5.5% of players 4.7% of players 4.5% of players 4.4% of players 4.2% of players 4.1% of players 3.6% of players 3.6% of players 3.6% of players 3.1% of players 3.0% of players 2.9% of players 2.9% of players 2.9% of players 2.9% of players 2.9% of players 2.9% of players 2.8% of players 2.8% of players 80.5% 0% most earned rarest
Almost everyone has
80.5%First Contact — Discover planetary life
53.7%Walk at Night — The night is dark and full of terrors
41.5%Thruster Master — Use the thruster 25 times
Rarest badges of honor
2.8%Quiet Symphony — Find and scan all available Tetrerium
2.8%Pacifist — Complete the game without harming anything
2.9%Scholar — Find and decrypt all alien text fragments

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.

Freecurrent · sampled 2026-07-26 08:39 UTC
Freelowest since tracking began2026-07-11

Latest official news

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

Jun 05, 2019
World Environment Day Celebration Sale

https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/27418885/6e0f4e8ba2bfad679b5a22fbf743cdfa7ff554a1.gif Phoning Home is part of the Steam World Environment Day Sale, which features a

Nov 16, 2018
Revealing Cloudpunk

https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/27418885/953e159a4820f93919a9fd1f0dfa4e702e8a84de.gif This is Cloudpunk, a stylish story-driven cyberpunk game with a unique voxel ae

Oct 27, 2018
Balancing & Bugfixes

This update includes a series of balancing changes for fall damage, fuel consumption and ANI's corrosion to make the experience more enjoyable. There are now more auto-save checkpoints to reduce the l

Aug 20, 2018
Community Sale

80% discount guys. :animad: Get it while it lasts and try to phone home! :ion: To celebrate the day we'll be broadcasting some of our favorite streams or let's plays on the store page. Watch it for a

Jun 19, 2018
Behind the Scenes

I found some old footage from our voiceover recording sessions back in December 2016 and made this little video clip for you. Beware, there are some German parts in there, but two thirds are English.

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Screenshots

Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.

Facts & details

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

GenresAction, Adventure, Indie
Player tagsAdventure · Action · Indie · Survival · Open World Survival Craft · Open World · Exploration · Crafting · Robots · Singleplayer · Sci-fi · Atmospheric (SteamSpy community voting)
FeaturesSingle-player · Steam Achievements · Full controller support · Steam Trading Cards · Steam Cloud
LanguagesEnglish * , German * , French, Spanish - Spain, Russian, Hungarian, Simplified Chinese, Polish *
ControllerFull support
Achievements52
Estimated owners100,000 – 200,000 (SteamSpy)
Minimum system requirements (PC)

Minimum: OS *: Windows XP / 7 / 8.1 / 10 Processor: Intel Core i5 / AMD, 2.5 GHz Memory: 8 GB RAM Graphics: Dedicated GPU, NVIDIA or AMD, 1.5 GB video memory DirectX: Version 10 Storage: 10 GB available space