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The Pioneers: Surviving Desolation
Deep and innovative space survival simulation experience. Build your station, manage your crew and explore the harsh environment of Io, the innermost moon of Jupiter. Are you brave enough to survive?
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 2026-05-13.
“The idea behind the game its amazing and refreshing from the other survival games. I always get back from time to time to play this game since at the start the map and all objects are randomly generated.”
— a player, Steam review · 56 hrs played“Abandoned game. Shame.”
— a player, Steam review · 2 hrs played“Developers seemingly abandoned this game, last update was back in 2024. Shame, it seemed like an interesting game.”
— a player, Steam review · 12 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live data self-collected from the Steam API · history through 2025-12 via SteamCharts.
Price tracking
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Latest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
DEV DIARY | September 24
Dear Pioneers, You may have noticed a slower pace of updates for the game lately, so we wanted to share some news from the team and provide an update on the development of The Pioneers. As we’ve menti
Patch notes 0.52 | Localization & fixes
Dear Pioneers, In celebration of our participation in the Steam Endless Replayability Fest, we are happy to release a new regular update. Here's what you can look forward to in Version 0.52. Have a ni
Patch notes 0.51 | Polish, data & fixes
Dear Pioneers, Before we delve into more details about the upcoming roadmap and the major updates the game will receive before it exits early access, we continue our commitment to enhancing the overal
Patch notes 0.50.10 | Small update
Dear Pioneers, Thank you all for the warm reception of our latest major update, "Decisions." Your feedback suggests that we are continuing in the right direction and that our efforts are starting to p
MAJOR UPDATE #3 | DECISIONS
Dear Pioneers, The entire team is incredibly proud of the work done on "Decisions," the 3rd major update for TPSD. You can check out all the update notes here, and please see the end of the post for a
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-13.
| Genres | RPG, Simulation, Strategy, Early Access |
| Player tags | Early Access · Top-Down · Survival · Management · Base-Building · Strategy · RPG · Crafting · Immersive Sim · Class-Based · Dynamic Narration · RTS (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English * , French * , Spanish - Spain * , German, Russian, Swedish, Hungarian, Polish, Italian, Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Finnish, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Portuguese - Brazil, Portuguese - Portu… |
| Official site | http://thepioneersgame.com/ |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS *: Windows 7, 64-bit Processor: Intel i5 4th generation / AMD FX-8300 Memory: 8 GB RAM Graphics: NVIDIA GTX 1050 / AMD RX 590 DirectX: Version 11 Storage: 4 GB available space