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8Doors: Arum's Afterlife Adventure

Rootless Studio · NEOWIZ · 2021-04-07

SteamGOGPlayStation StoreEpic Games StoreAmazonMicrosoft Store

ActionAdventureIndie

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Side view

Releases: Apr 08, 2021 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Apr 21, 2022 (Nintendo Switch), Apr 28, 2023 (PlayStation 4), Apr 28, 2023 (PlayStation 5), Apr 28, 2023 (Xbox One), Apr 28, 2023 (Xbox Series X|S)

8Doors is a story-driven Metroidvania-style action platformer heavily influenced by Korean folktales. Play as ‘Arum’, a brave girl that has entered the realm of the afterlife in search of her father’s soul and guide her through the '8 Doors of Purgatory' to solve the mysteries that lie deep within.

8Doors: Arum's Afterlife Adventure is an Action, Adventure, Indie game released in 2021, priced at $19.99, with an estimated 100,000 .. 200,000 owners and a Mostly Positive review sentiment (78% of 1593 reviews).

6
playing now
78%
positive of 1.6k reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
60/100
IGDB user rating (5 ratings)
4.03★
PlayStation Store rating (130 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Verified
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$19.99
steam price (US)

6 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 15:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 6 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 55 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~7/week).
  • · Review velocity down 13% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (181 reviews).
  • · Top 12% of 27,649 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-31

Estimated sales: 32k–72k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 1,593 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

GOG$3.99-80%
Microsoft Store$3.99-80%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $2.99 at Fanatical (2023-11-22) · bundled 2×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $19.99 · on sale 75 of 137 observed days · $1.00 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
14314320212026Week of 2021-04-01: 143 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 38 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 39 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 18 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 2 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

1422026-09-15 00:00 — 4 players2026-09-16 08:00 — 2 players2026-09-17 16:00 — 11 players2026-09-18 23:00 — 7 players2026-09-20 07:00 — 11 players2026-09-21 15:00 — 10 players2026-09-22 22:00 — 7 players2026-09-24 06:00 — 6 players2026-09-25 13:00 — 4 players2026-09-26 21:00 — 5 players2026-09-28 04:00 — 4 players2026-09-29 12:00 — 5 players2026-09-30 19:00 — 2 players2026-10-02 03:00 — 3 players2026-10-03 10:00 — 6 players2026-10-04 18:00 — 10 players2026-10-06 02:00 — 2 players2026-10-07 09:00 — 3 players2026-10-08 17:00 — 5 players2026-10-10 00:00 — 3 players2026-10-11 08:00 — 3 players2026-10-12 16:00 — 8 players2026-10-13 23:00 — 3 players2026-10-14 15:00 — 6 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$19.99$3.092021-04-072026-10-142021-04-07 — best price $19.992021-08-07 — best price $19.992021-11-03 — best price $19.992022-01-07 — best price $13.992022-04-15 — best price $19.992022-07-09 — best price $19.992022-09-07 — best price $14.992022-11-22 — best price $3.992023-01-06 — best price $19.992023-03-01 — best price $3.992023-04-24 — best price $3.992023-06-29 — best price $9.992023-08-07 — best price $3.992023-11-16 — best price $3.992024-01-10 — best price $15.892024-02-17 — best price $19.992024-03-26 — best price $9.992024-04-30 — best price $5.992024-06-20 — best price $3.992024-08-05 — best price $3.192024-09-14 — best price $19.992024-10-16 — best price $3.992024-12-02 — best price $19.992025-01-12 — best price $19.992025-02-22 — best price $19.992025-04-03 — best price $19.992025-05-22 — best price $14.692025-07-21 — best price $14.692025-08-31 — best price $15.892025-10-27 — best price $4.002025-12-11 — best price $19.992026-02-02 — best price $14.692026-04-04 — best price $14.692026-05-27 — best price $19.992026-07-16 — best price $3.092026-08-29 — best price $19.992026-09-13 — best price $3.992026-09-28 — best price $19.992026-10-13 — best price $3.992026-10-14 — best price $3.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

44
achievements tracked
66.5%
earned "Start of the Journey"
9.7%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsPartial Controller SupportSteam CloudFamily Sharing2 DLC

9 supported languages: Korean, English, Simplified Chinese, German, Spanish - Spain, Russian, Japanese, Portuguese - Brazil, French

Post-launch support: 2 DLC released, first 2021-04-08, latest 2021-09-30 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)2,1385%44
Xbox Series, Xbox One (Xbox)3147%44
PS5 (PlayStation)19311%45
PS4 (PlayStation)7517%45
Switch (Nintendo)280%0

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

Player tags

2DCuteIndieActionAdventureDifficultHand-drawnPlatformerStory RichExploration

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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