Released May 13, 2021 $6.49 · −75% Mostly Positive Counts toward your Steam games

Before We Leave

By Balancing Monkey Games · published by Team17

City Builder Casual Economy Relaxing Hex Grid Family Friendly Resource Management Atmospheric BuildingSingleplayerSpacePost-apocalyptic

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Reviews 1,280 Mostly Positive

Players yesterday 19 at the busiest moment

Owners 100K–200K estimated

Before We Leave is a game tagged City Builder, Casual and Economy by Balancing Monkey Games, released May 13, 2021. It has 1,280 Steam reviews (Mostly Positive). It has an estimated 100K–200K owners on Steam. The Steam games most like it include Scorchlands, Citizens: On Mars and hexurb.

Before We Leave is a city building game set in a cozy corner of the universe. Nurture your Peeps and their surroundings while rebuilding and rediscovering civilisation. Settle new lands and planets while avoiding hungry Space Whales.

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Scorchlands 74% match · City Builder, Casual, Economy
Citizens: On Mars 69% match · City Builder, Casual, Economy
hexurb 68% match · City Builder, Casual, Relaxing
Terra-7 66% match · City Builder, Economy, Resource Management
Pocket City 2 65% match · City Builder, Casual, Economy
Moons of Ardan 65% match · City Builder, Economy, Relaxing
Deep Space Directive 65% match · City Builder, Casual, Economy
Town to City 65% match · City Builder, Casual, Economy
Metrocity - Discovery Town 64% match · City Builder, Casual, Economy
Real estate tycoon 64% match · City Builder, Casual, Economy

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Everything Steam lists for Before We Leave · record updated 1 day ago

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Overview

App ID1073910

Release dateMay 13, 2021

Last change number37441117

Last record update1 day ago

App type: Game
Developer: Balancing Monkey Games
Publisher: Team17
Steam profile: Counts toward game count and achievement totals · checked Nov 1, 2025
Franchise: Team17
Technologies: Unity detected
Metacritic: 72
Website: balancingmonkeygames.com

Windows macOS 64-bit

Steam Deck: Playable

Single-playerSteam AchievementsFamily Sharing

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Build	Branch	Updated
20404307	public	Oct 30, 2025
9160346	experimental	Jul 21, 2022
6722182	patch_1	Jul 1, 2021

Depots

ID	Name	Systems	Size	Download	Manifest
228988	— shared from 228980	Windows	—	—	—
1073911	—	Windows	1.58 GB	770.5 MB	6683415832756600450
1073912	—	macOS	1.57 GB	769.0 MB	7208388063764609961

Branch	Build	Updated	Access
public	20404307	Oct 30, 2025	Open
experimental Experimental branch for in-development features of Before We Leave	9160346	Jul 21, 2022	Open
patch_1 Before We Leave with only Patch 1 (version 1.0238) applied	6722182	Jul 1, 2021	Open

Configuration

Install foldersteamapps/common/Before We Leave

Executable	Arguments	Systems	Description
Before We Leave.exe		Windows · 64-bit
Before We Leave.app		macOS

Space per player95.4 MB

Filesup to 100

Save locations1

Root	Path	Pattern	Systems
WinAppDataLocalLow	Balancing Monkey Games/Before We Leave	cloudsave.dat	Windows

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