# SimpleMovie

Summer DB entity ID: 7c57d5aa\-e99c\-4b65\-bbf0\-66c4fe591033

Steam App ID: 997370

Simple Movie is a simulation, crafting and sand box game\. The goal is to create a short film\. The player is the film's writer, producer and director\. The game creates a video with fixed background music and subtitles\.    The player is at once the screenwriter and director of a film\. As screenwriter, he writes the story\. As director, he has the principal role in choosing the cast, controlling the production design and managing the creative aspects of filmmaking\.    Simple Movie is a Non Player Character animation \(NPC\-mation\) tool where:    NPC\-mation is an animated filmmaking technique in which NPC are manipulated by a movie program in small increments between individual screenshots \(frames\) so they exhibit independent motion when the frames series is played back as a sequence\. NPCs with movable joints are used for their ease of repositioning\.     The movie program contains scenes, with each scene having one or more lines\.    A line has an actor or an item, animation \(actors only\), a start and end locations \(can be the same\), camera, speed \(or duration\) and subtitles\.    NOTE: The output video depends on the installed video codec\. The game does not include any video codec \(except uncompressed video\)\.

## Game information

- Type: game

- Developer: NPCWARE

- Publisher: NPCWARE

- Release date: Jan 1, 2019

- Coming soon: false

- Free to play: false

- Parent Steam app: Not collected

- Genres: Casual, Indie, Simulation

- Categories: Single\-player, Family Sharing

- Platforms: windows

- Website: Not collected

- Screenshots: https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/997370/ss\_dab07d2209fb62ea47de487e28602b5c8bc3fb46\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1592819136, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/997370/ss\_70931ad25d8be599c2af5f14d5742feb427b54d7\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1592819136, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/997370/ss\_70c1e752711967e96746200abcb462b58aa6ccd3\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1592819136, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/997370/ss\_5515a1d5f5f636fad591ac387500811cb28e761e\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1592819136, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/997370/ss\_eca400c5a757ec4b90eafca35072e87c2c9ee32e\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1592819136, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/997370/ss\_bc6390e7871f563c0f9f702b30472028ce72b980\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1592819136, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/997370/ss\_4ebd1cd2b69a6cca12c74f388c02f4238caa505e\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1592819136, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/997370/ss\_561095b6020a00acb5a20260b851f4af2e4e46d5\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1592819136, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/997370/ss\_644ea31b4d4cab9166bb14b983071edb0930d34c\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1592819136, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/997370/ss\_55386b6532a3cefba26196606b89db4e372dbf05\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1592819136

- Price: 999 minor units USD; discount 0%

- Price country: US

## Observed metrics

- Current players: 0

- Steam review count: 9

- Steam positive reviews: 8

- Steam negative reviews: 1

- Steam positive percentage: 88.88888888888889%

- Summer DB rating: No native votes

Review filters: \{"language":"all","review\_type":"all","purchase\_type":"all","filter\_offtopic\_activity":0\}

## Player history

[Seven-day chart data as Markdown](/api/v1/entities/7c57d5aa-e99c-4b65-bbf0-66c4fe591033/player-metrics?days=7&format=markdown) · [JSON](/api/v1/entities/7c57d5aa-e99c-4b65-bbf0-66c4fe591033/player-metrics?days=7)

Chart values are hourly observed maxima. The sampled 24-hour peak and missing intervals carry explicit coverage; history before collection is unknown.

## Sources and freshness

- Catalog membership: store\_catalog

- Catalog observed: 2026\-09\-24T19:57:04\.362365\+00:00

- Details observed: 2026\-09\-24T00:03:30\.858579\+00:00

- Player count observed: 2026\-09\-24T00:03:32\.223704\+00:00

- Reviews observed: 2026\-09\-24T00:03:31\.88571\+00:00

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Steam reviews are not Summer DB votes. Missing data is not zero. Player counts are observations, not historical peaks. A supplemental record does not establish that a game was delisted.

[Steam store](https://store.steampowered.com/app/997370/) · [JSON](/api/v1/games/7c57d5aa-e99c-4b65-bbf0-66c4fe591033)