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Prologue: Go Wayback!

Prologue: Go Wayback!

Prologue: Go Wayback! is a single-player open-world emergent survival roguelike where every journey is unique. Traverse a new wilderness that is generated for you every time you play. Chart your path, overcome the elements, and write your own story of exploration.

Released Jun 17, 2026 Developer PLAYERUNKNOWN Productions Platforms Windows SurvivalOpen WorldExplorationImmersive SimPvE
View on Steam ↗ Free (US · as of 2026-09-25)

What players say

Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-25.

61.6%positive763 reviews
Recommended · 23 found this helpful

“To the people who say it's boring and empty. Go take a walk in the deep forest, but don't forget to charge your GPS/smartphone. This game is full of POI's and poses a huge challenge on people liking to navigate terrain map with compass. It's not a nanny game like they make in…”

— a player, Steam review · 10 hrs played
Recommended · 7 found this helpful

“The mushroom🍄picking trip was really promising🧺”

— a player, Steam review · 0 hrs played
Not recommended · 9 found this helpful

“Hear me out- the whole idea of the game is PERFECT. I love the fact that is difficult and challenging but it is really poorly done. No matter what settings I set on EPIC, the Compass will still be blurry, so I have finished the game after so many hours playing it blindly,…”

— a player, Steam review · 21 hrs played
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Player activity

Monthly average concurrent players. Live data self-collected from the Steam API · history through 2026-08 via SteamCharts.

592all-time peak
0 100 200 2026 181 avg · Jun 2026

Achievement stats

Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-09-26.

22achievements
0.5%median completion
0.3%rarest: Long way round
73.7% of players 20.8% of players 2.5% of players 2.2% of players 1.4% of players 0.9% of players 0.9% of players 0.7% of players 0.7% of players 0.6% of players 0.6% of players 0.5% of players 0.4% of players 0.4% of players 0.4% of players 0.4% of players 0.4% of players 0.4% of players 0.4% of players 0.4% of players 0.4% of players 0.3% of players 73.7% 0% most earned rarest
Almost everyone has
73.7%It's a dangerous business — Hidden achievement
20.8%The first of many — Hidden achievement
2.5%I did it — Reach the weather tower and escape.
Rarest badges of honor
0.3%Long way round — Visit the 4 corners of the world in one run in any survival mode.
0.4%The Swiss commute — Hidden achievement
0.4%The real game starts here — Survive for 30 days.

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 19, 2026
Small bug fix

We are seeing some rare crashes when generating terrain in the GPU, as mitigation step the game will detect if a crash happens and force CPU generation automatically on future runs. The terrain genera

Jun 17, 2026
Prologue: Go Wayback! is now free to own

Dear community, Today brings the final update to Prologue: Go Wayback! that our studio's game team has been working on. We announced recently that we unfortunately have had to make some hard decisions

Jun 03, 2026
An update from the studio

Hey everyone. We have some sad news to share. Unfortunately we have had to make a hard decision to restructure our studio to a smaller team. As a result, we will be halting further development of Prol

Apr 16, 2026
Hotfix - v0.26010

We have just released a small update for Prologue: Go Wayback! with the following fixes: Renamed Tetris Master Achievement to Puzzle Master and fixed the unlock criteria. Fixed storms that occur durin

Mar 27, 2026
Hotfix - v0.25879

Hi all, We’ve just released a small update for Prologue: Go Wayback! with the following fixes and balance changes: Reduced alarm clock power consumption Fixed batteries having the same capacity Fixed

Screenshots

Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.

Facts & details

From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-09-25.

GenresAdventure, Indie, Simulation, Free To Play
Player tagsSurvival · Open World · Exploration · Immersive Sim · PvE · Walking Simulator · Female Protagonist · Realistic · 3D · Cooking · Roguelite · First-Person (Steam store community voting)
FeaturesSingle-player · Steam Achievements · Steam Cloud · Includes level editor · Family Sharing
LanguagesEnglish * , French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Simplified Chinese, Turkish, Spanish - Latin America, Ukrainian, Korean, Russian, Traditional Chinese *
Achievements22
Official sitehttps://playerunknownproductions.net/
Minimum system requirements (PC)

Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS: Windows 10 Processor: Intel Core i5 8600 Memory: 16 GB RAM Graphics: NVIDIA GTX 1070 DirectX: Version 12 Storage: 10 GB available space