Emergence overview

Overview

Emergence comes from Universal Everything and is published by Universal Everything. It arrived on Steam on Aug 7, 2020, and it sits naturally among Single-player, Steam Achievements, Tracked Controller Support, VR Only, and Family Sharing. SteamPulse tracks it across Windows and Steam so readers get a quick useful snapshot, not just a wall of numbers.

Players and reviews

Emergence's latest SteamPulse observation recorded 0 players at 25 September 2026 - 07:38:38 UTC, with a tracked peak near 7. This peak is the highest value in the available SteamPulse record and may not include activity before tracking began. Player reaction is 84% positive across 98 reviews.

Language and system requirements

Emergence is available in 1 languages including:

3 regional rating boards including dejus, steam germany, and igrs

Sales, recommendations, and streams

Emergence has sold up to 3,000 units and has recommendation data pending. Revenue data is not available for this game yet. On Twitch, 0 streamers are live with around 0 total watchers.

Emergence overview details

Emergence combines live player counts with reviews, pricing, platform support, Store metadata, dated player history, media, recent news, and related games.

Steam Store description

Emergence is an awe-inspiring VR open-world art experience, visualising patterns of human behaviour and exploring the individual and the collective. It immerses the player in a crowd of thousands, against a changing canvas that is at varying points wondrous and intimidating, realistic and fantastical. You control one solitary, glowing avatar amongst a mass of autonomous strangers, each of whose movements react to your own. As your pace and directions influence others as both individuals and as a whole, you essentially become the choreographer of the crowd. The crowd’s movements are programmed to simulate intelligent behaviours (including avoidance, following and mimicry), reflecting the seemingly endless ways that humans act in group settings. Viewed from above, these movements create mesmerising patterns against the landscape. A shaft of light beckons you – each time you reach the light, this landscape shifts, along with its soundtrack, gravity, atmosphere and mode of movement. Emergence doesn’t dictate a goal. There’s no fixed succession of tasks that lead you to ‘completing’ the game. The experience instead is a powerful challenge to the player’s perception. Are you a leader inspiring a devoted following, or a defenceless figure overwhelmed by the encroaching horde? Emergence compels you to adjust to each transformation in your surrounding environment – all the while bringing you face to face with the primal desire to maintain your individual identity while being part of a crowd. Emergence formed part of Universal Everything’s solo show Fluid Bodies at Borusan Contempor…

SteamPulse editorial summary

Emergence is listed as a game with Free to play. It supports Windows, belongs to Single-player, Steam Achievements, Tracked Controller Support, VR Only, and Family Sharing, and is associated with Adventure, Casual, Free To Play, Indie, and Simulation. SteamPulse's latest observation records 0 players at 25 September 2026 - 07:38:38 UTC, a tracked peak of 7, and 84% positive reviews.

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Support and legal notes

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