After seemingly appearing out of nowhere, Schedule I, a drug kingpin simulator created by solo developer TVGS, continues the 2024 trend of indie games giving AAA titles a run for their money, becoming the most popular indie game on Steam in 2025 and the year’s second-most popular game overall, surpassing Kingdom Come: Deliverance II, Sid Meier’s Civilization VII, Assassin’s Creed Shadows, Avowed, and Split Fiction in peak player numbers.
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During its first weekend since launching on March 24, Schedule I reached an astounding 414K peak players on Steam, surpassing R.E.P.O.’s 271K and becoming the platform’s most popular indie game of the year so far. It also became the second-best performer overall, only behind Monster Hunter Wilds with its 1.3 million peak concurrent users.
Additionally, the “Walter White simulator” has entered the Top-30 of Steam’s best performing games of all time and has become the second-best reviewed title on the largest PC gaming store of 2025, achieving a 96.06% positivity rating from 28K reviews and trailing Split Fiction’s 96.17% (38K reviews) by just a few percentage points.
As for the most important metric for most game developers – the number of units sold – Schedule I is currently estimated to have sold around 1.8 to 2 million copies, effectively making TVGS an overnight millionaire even after accounting for Steam fees. Please note that, at the time of writing, all available sales figures are estimates based on factors like concurrent players, reviews, playtime, etc., as no official numbers have been provided by the game’s creator as of yet.
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