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降妖散记

MyACG Studio · 2025-04-17

Steam

IndieRPGStrategy

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Side view

Releases: Apr 03, 2023 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Yao-Guai Hunter is a Wuxia roguelike deck-building game. In a world where Yao-Guai roam free, player battles with various evil beings, collecting cards and learn inner skills. Encountering various adventures in the martial world.

降妖散记 is an Indie, RPG, Strategy game released in 2025, priced at $12.74, with an estimated 50,000 .. 100,000 owners and a Very Positive review sentiment (84% of 2323 reviews).

39
playing now
84%
positive of 2.3k reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$12.74
steam price (US)

39 players in-game as of 2026-10-15 09:00 UTC (census sample)

In a world where humans and Yao-Guai coexist, these Yao-Guai with magical powers pose a threat. To combat this danger, individuals called "Yao-Guai hunters" are trained in martial arts and spells to fight against them. You will play as a heroic demon hunter battling a horde of Yao-Guai.(Storyline via IGDB)

Health check

Cooling
  • · 39 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 151 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~19/week).
  • · Review velocity down 74% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (440 reviews).
  • · Top 6% of 50,052 Indie games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-30

Estimated sales: 46k–105k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 2,323 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $12.74 at Steam (2025-08-25)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $16.99 · on sale 8 of 15 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
37537520232026Week of 2023-04-01: 375 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 65 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 138 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 35 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 57 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 19 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 67 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 30 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 61 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 49 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 40 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 48 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 42 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 34 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 185 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 62 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 100 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 31 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 41 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 31 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 7 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

4772026-09-15 18:00 — 13 players2026-09-17 02:00 — 22 players2026-09-18 10:00 — 32 players2026-09-19 17:00 — 19 players2026-09-21 01:00 — 13 players2026-09-22 08:00 — 25 players2026-09-23 16:00 — 21 players2026-09-24 23:00 — 7 players2026-09-26 07:00 — 25 players2026-09-27 14:00 — 40 players2026-09-28 22:00 — 8 players2026-09-30 05:00 — 24 players2026-10-01 13:00 — 40 players2026-10-02 20:00 — 7 players2026-10-04 04:00 — 33 players2026-10-05 12:00 — 31 players2026-10-06 20:00 — 16 players2026-10-08 03:00 — 23 players2026-10-09 11:00 — 31 players2026-10-10 18:00 — 19 players2026-10-12 02:00 — 17 players2026-10-13 09:00 — 34 players2026-10-14 17:00 — 27 players2026-10-15 09:00 — 39 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
27723Apr 2023Aug 2026Apr 2023 — avg 254 · peak 836Jun 2023 — avg 94 · peak 236Aug 2023 — avg 67 · peak 178Oct 2023 — avg 94 · peak 256Dec 2023 — avg 97 · peak 270Feb 2024 — avg 61 · peak 162Apr 2024 — avg 51 · peak 162Jun 2024 — avg 43 · peak 110Aug 2024 — avg 32 · peak 102Oct 2024 — avg 24 · peak 66Dec 2024 — avg 27 · peak 65Feb 2025 — avg 31 · peak 80Apr 2025 — avg 277 · peak 1,659Jun 2025 — avg 120 · peak 352Aug 2025 — avg 61 · peak 189Oct 2025 — avg 70 · peak 203Dec 2025 — avg 48 · peak 118Feb 2026 — avg 35 · peak 101Apr 2026 — avg 35 · peak 119Jun 2026 — avg 27 · peak 61Aug 2026 — avg 26 · peak 67
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$16.99$12.742023-04-032026-08-242023-04-03 — best price $14.392023-05-10 — best price $12.792023-06-30 — best price $12.792023-08-28 — best price $12.792023-10-05 — best price $12.792023-11-21 — best price $12.792023-12-21 — best price $12.792024-01-26 — best price $12.792024-03-14 — best price $12.792024-03-25 — best price $12.792024-05-06 — best price $12.792024-06-17 — best price $12.792024-06-27 — best price $12.792024-07-29 — best price $12.792024-09-09 — best price $12.792024-10-21 — best price $12.792024-11-27 — best price $12.792024-12-09 — best price $12.792024-12-19 — best price $12.792025-03-13 — best price $12.792025-04-17 — best price $16.992025-05-24 — best price $16.992025-07-10 — best price $16.992025-07-21 — best price $16.992025-09-01 — best price $16.992025-10-13 — best price $16.992025-11-24 — best price $16.992026-01-12 — best price $16.992026-02-23 — best price $16.992026-03-26 — best price $16.992026-04-06 — best price $16.992026-05-18 — best price $16.992026-07-23 — best price $16.992026-08-24 — best price $12.74
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

60+
achievements tracked
82.6%
earned "Get out of My Way"
28.2%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam WorkshopSteam CloudFamily Sharing2 DLC

5 supported languages: Simplified Chinese, English, Japanese, Traditional Chinese, Korean

Post-launch support: 2 DLC released, first 2023-07-05, latest 2025-04-17 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)3741%75

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Where its players are

Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.

Player tags

2DRPGIndieCartoonyStrategyCard GameRogue-likeRogue-liteTurn-BasedCard Battler

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

Recent updates

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