Steam app 3681230 · updated 12 Sep 2026, 21:37 UTC
A world that plays itself. Draw your own maps, build alternate histories, watch nations rise and collapse, intervene with god-like powers or program your own AI and climb the ranked ladder.
413 hourly samples, with the daily peak drawn over them. Weekends are shaded.
17 months, May 2025 to September 2026. The highest number of people in the game at once, each month, on a time axis -- a gap in the record stays a gap.
The highest number of people in the game at once, each month. Four, because four is as far back as the source keeps anything finer than one figure a month.
The source keeps every hour for about a month, one figure a day for about two, and a single number for anything older.
26 days as the curve, each the highest figure that day. Behind it, 217 hourly samples from 13 Aug, which is as far back as the source keeps every hour. Weekends are shaded.
12 days as the curve, each the highest figure that day. Behind it, 196 hourly samples. Each dip is a night. Weekends are shaded.
Observe was released on 15 May, 2025.
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16 achievements in total.
35 developer announcements, May 2025 to Sep 2026 · times in UTC
Hello all! This update adds save games, reusable rule profiles, more control over combat and new ways to change the world through God Mode. Save a world and return later You can now save a running world and continue it later from the…
devobserveWe have moved Observe's community translation project from Crowdin to a self-hosted Weblate server. This lets us support every language our players ask us to add. German, Polish, Turkish and Ukrainian translations are already underway.…
devobserveHello all! Observe has grown considerably over the past few months and we now have a big international audience! I would like to make Observe easier to play for people who do not speak English as their first language, so I am opening a…
devobserveHello all! This update makes the map more useful by letting you choose both what it shows and how that information is presented. Build your own map viewThe new Map Composer combines three separate choices: a base map, optional overlays and…
devobserveHello all! Observe 0.7.5 is now available. This update adds better tools for recording the world, reusable ideology packs and much clearer feedback for AI Studio scripts. Choose what appears on screen Press H during a game to open the new…
devobserveHello all! This update gives the world map a new visual style and adds another set of improvements to the Map Editor. A new look for the world The political map now uses one sharp pixel grid instead of thousands of separate region images.…
devobserveHello all! This is a smaller update focused on making the new Map Editor easier to use and much safer for large projects. More ways to draw The Map Editor now includes straight boundaries with a live preview and a one-pixel pen for detailed…
Patch notesHello all! Observe 0.7.2 is now available. The main feature is something I have been asked about for a very long time: a complete custom Map Editor inside the game. You can now draw a world from an empty canvas, divide it into regions, turn…
devobserveHello all! I have released a small update focused almost entirely on performance. Performance improvements A few calculations that looked harmless were doing far more work than intended once countries became extremely large. Normal…
Patch notesHello all! 0.7.1 is built mostly from the things people asked for after playing 0.7.0. It adds interface scaling, more control over ideologies, better subject information, stricter naval AI rules, a new Bloc map mode and several fixes for…
devobserveThe 0.7.0 update had a progressive lag issue. Now fixed, game might even run better than ever. As always thanks for all the support and sorry for the lag!
Patch notesHello all! This update started with cultures. I wanted a country to contain actual peoples rather than one population number and I wanted those people to matter when borders moved. That sounded like one system. It turned into terrain, food…
devobserveHello again, Sorry to spam these updates but someone on Discord found a bug regarding the ideologies caused by yesterday's behaviour update. Basically, the AI didn't pick any ideologies before a war was declared. Now that's fixed. And I…
Patch notesHello all!This update starts with an apology. If you entered a script into the Arena, changed it and tried to send the better version, the arena kept showing your old one. There was no way to replace it. That has been true for about two…
devobserve-AI Studio Frontline bug fixed.-AI Studio Reset bug fixed.-Someone in comments asked for a Forever War concept, it can be found in the rulesets now.-Ideology bonuses now range from -100 to 100.-New achievements and an easter egg hunt…
Patch notesHello all!Flags have been asked for since about the week the game came out and every time I looked at it I put it off. Because "just add flags" is never just adding flags. The scenario data had to change but today I finally got around to…
devobserveHi, I fixed some of the bugs that were brough to my attention. Scenario Editor population fields were wrongfully limited to 100M. Fixed.Disabling nukes didn't do anything in many cases. Now they should be disabled.Some UI interactions…
Patch notesHello all!This has been one of the most requested features since release and I have been working on variations of it for over a year. Some of you might remember our earlier attempts, like the text-on-map showing army numbers without visible…
devobserveWe have gotten a lot of new players over the past few days. Welcome, all of you. Let's get into it. Scenario Editor RulesetsUntil now every scenario played by the same rules. From this update, you choose them.Open Settings in the Scenario…
devobserveHello again, Two bug fixes and 8 new achievements for today! Scenario Editor: publishing a scenario didn't upload the screenshot with it. Now it does. AI Studio: publishing a script was uploading a placeholder image instead of your code. It…
Patch notesHello again,Nations no longer just lose on the map, they rot from the inside. Nukes rewrite the board. The seas finally matter, forts finally hold a line, and games actually end. Here is everything: The Home FrontConquest used to be free.…
devobserveHello again, I want to thank you all for the incredible love and support you've shown for the recent overhaul. Since yesterday, I've received quite a few feature requests and had some free time today to knock them out. Here are the changes…
Patch notesHello everyone! I am insanely proud to finally get this update out. This has been a massive undertaking and basically everything has changed. So let's not waste time and let's get into what has changed. Main MenuRemember how sad things used…
devobserveHello to all, Wars now use a front-based army system. When two countries are at war, their shared border becomes a front, and armies must be distributed across active fronts to fight. Only troops allocated to a front participate in battles…
devobserveHi! Our community has been asking for this feature for a while, and I thought it was a cool idea to implement. From now on, you'll be able to edit a country's properties using the "Edit" tab after clicking on a country.Furthermore, I…
devobserveThe moment our community has been waiting for is finally here! Now it's time to put your skills to the ultimate test. LEADERBOARDS ARE LIVE! Submit your AI scripts and watch them battle for supremacy on our new competitive leaderboards!…
devobserveHello. This update focuses on diplomacy and some UI changes. Countries now have to declare war on each other. They can band together and fight against others by forming alliances. UI is now updated too. Notes:-Added diplomacy.-Removed the…
devobserveHello everyone, For the past month I was working on units update. After getting most of it done, I decided to scrap it as it wasn't a good fit for the game as a whole. Although I had to get rid of most of it, some parts like region…
devobserveI just found a terrible bug that was introduced by the new graphics update. Region-clicking and thumbnail generation were terribly broken, but now has been fixed.
Patch notesHi. This new update focuses on map visuals and performance. -Made the game more visually appealing. -Performance improved by 50% (I was getting 100 FPS before, now its more like 160-ish on a full zoom out. I have been making updates for…
devobserveAs the title suggests, Observe now has achievements that can be unlocked through challenges. For now, I’ve only added five. Two programming challenges and three chatting challenges, such as "Quit Stallin’ Me" (where you must guide Stalin to…
devobserveObserve now has a chat feature that you can use to control AI. This update comes with a scenario named "Civilizations". The scenario features some of the greatest empires that have ever existed, and you can send commands to them or just…
devobserveIdeologies now are a part of the game. You can edit and create ideologies in the editor. If you set a country's ideology in the editor, it won't be able to change it during the game. Each ideology can have a positive and negative bonuses.…
devobserveHi again, today I got some good people on Discord suggesting me some features like more console commands and tooltips for map modes, so I implemented them. Then some bugs were brought to my attention and, I fixed them too. If you'd like to…
Patch notesHi, I have been working on an update for a while now. It was mostly polishing but it also has important features like console. -Made the map look a bit better -Added hotkeys for almost anything -Added more stats -Added more tooltips -Added…
devobserveWhat Steam runs, and with what. Straight from the app configuration.
| Description | Executable | Arguments | Platform | |
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| Launch | Observe.exe | windows 64 |
The folders Steam Cloud syncs. The root is a token Steam uses for a location on your own machine, not a path this page can know.
| Root | Folder | Files |
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gameinstall | SavesDir | *.sav |
It runs on public data and somebody's spare time.
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