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Across the Obelisk

Dreamsite Games · Paradox Interactive · 2022-08-16

SteamPlayStation StoreMicrosoft Store

AdventureIndieRPGStrategy

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative · Perspectives: Side view

Releases: Apr 08, 2021 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Apr 08, 2021 (Mac), Apr 08, 2021 (Linux), Mar 21, 2024 (Nintendo Switch), Nov 06, 2024 (Xbox Series X|S), Nov 06, 2024 (PlayStation 5)

Set forth in a co-op roguelite deckbuilder where every choice matters! Craft decks of breathtaking power. Journey alone or with up to three friends. Plot your party’s path to glory and face powerful enemies in deep tactical combat on your quest to save the kingdom of Senenthia in Across the Obelisk!

Across the Obelisk is an Adventure, Indie, RPG and Strategy game released in 2022, priced at $19.99, with an estimated 1,000,000 .. 2,000,000 owners and a Very Positive review sentiment (80% of 13109 reviews).— census verdict as of 2026-10-09

192
playing now
80%
positive of 13k reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
1,000,000–2,000,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
1,886
twitch viewers (latest)
1886.0
viewers/channel (concentration)
72/100
IGDB user rating (11 ratings)
4
Nexus mods (3.5k downloads)
3.81★
PlayStation Store rating (243 ratings)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$19.99
steam price (US)

192 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 11:00 UTC (census sample)

Trailer

Across the Obelisk trailer thumbnail

Across The Obelisk Release Trailer - Paradox Arc

≈418,500 YouTube results for this game's trailer search

Health check

Healthy
  • · 192 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 464 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~58/week).
  • · Review velocity down 12% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (1,542 reviews).
  • · Top 3% of 28,739 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 262k–590k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 13,122 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

Microsoft Store$24.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $8.07 at GameBillet (2024-11-30) · bundled 1×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $24.99 · on sale 65 of 72 observed days · $16.92 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
1.4k1.4k20212026Week of 2021-04-01: 257 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 28 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 150 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 88 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 53 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 69 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 58 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 63 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 81 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 52 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 61 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 34 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 98 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 129 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 149 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 162 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 133 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 1,364 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 178 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 914 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 95 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 321 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 29 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 636 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 21 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 205 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 30 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 231 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 24 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 131 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 174 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 22 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 553 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 48 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 174 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 23 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 78 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 142 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 23 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 167 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 89 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 87 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 23 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 92 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 112 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 18 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 164 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 346 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 95 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 113 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 68 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 32 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 73 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 49 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 81 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 42 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 119 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 105 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 50 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 37 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 62 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 29 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 43 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 23 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 49 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 26 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 44 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 16 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 80 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 29 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 88 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 96 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 40 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 69 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 22 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 59 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 20 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 38 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 62 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 16 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 54 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 17 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 54 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 35 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 51 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 38 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 52 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 22 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 44 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 16 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 54 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 45 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 47 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 23 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 34 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 38 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 26 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 30 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 16 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 19 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 21 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 24 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

5461822026-09-15 12:00 — 202 players2026-09-16 20:00 — 323 players2026-09-18 04:00 — 284 players2026-09-19 11:00 — 332 players2026-09-20 19:00 — 546 players2026-09-22 02:00 — 368 players2026-09-23 10:00 — 219 players2026-09-24 17:00 — 414 players2026-09-26 01:00 — 369 players2026-09-27 08:00 — 277 players2026-09-28 16:00 — 307 players2026-09-29 23:00 — 311 players2026-10-01 07:00 — 214 players2026-10-02 14:00 — 315 players2026-10-03 22:00 — 435 players2026-10-05 06:00 — 278 players2026-10-06 14:00 — 347 players2026-10-07 21:00 — 328 players2026-10-09 05:00 — 253 players2026-10-10 12:00 — 367 players2026-10-11 20:00 — 533 players2026-10-13 03:00 — 297 players2026-10-14 11:00 — 192 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
5.2k102Apr 2021Aug 2026Apr 2021 — avg 444 · peak 885Jun 2021 — avg 232 · peak 438Aug 2021 — avg 131 · peak 260Oct 2021 — avg 180 · peak 481Dec 2021 — avg 134 · peak 291Feb 2022 — avg 105 · peak 226Apr 2022 — avg 468 · peak 887Jun 2022 — avg 353 · peak 664Aug 2022 — avg 4,186 · peak 13,893Oct 2022 — avg 2,201 · peak 4,737Dec 2022 — avg 1,226 · peak 2,637Feb 2023 — avg 928 · peak 1,676Apr 2023 — avg 3,852 · peak 11,286Jun 2023 — avg 688 · peak 1,261Aug 2023 — avg 1,100 · peak 2,874Oct 2023 — avg 788 · peak 1,288Dec 2023 — avg 962 · peak 1,687Feb 2024 — avg 575 · peak 997Apr 2024 — avg 694 · peak 1,357Jun 2024 — avg 712 · peak 1,407Aug 2024 — avg 533 · peak 904Oct 2024 — avg 429 · peak 689Dec 2024 — avg 802 · peak 1,701Feb 2025 — avg 1,201 · peak 2,376Apr 2025 — avg 564 · peak 947Jun 2025 — avg 790 · peak 1,510Aug 2025 — avg 552 · peak 862Oct 2025 — avg 581 · peak 1,126Dec 2025 — avg 887 · peak 1,915Feb 2026 — avg 649 · peak 1,422Apr 2026 — avg 424 · peak 778Jun 2026 — avg 410 · peak 826Aug 2026 — avg 324 · peak 579
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Chart history

PositiveNegative
10102026-09-222026-10-142026-09-22: 1 new positive2026-09-22: 3 new negative2026-09-23: 1 new positive2026-09-23: 10 new negative2026-09-25: 6 new negative2026-09-26: 6 new negative2026-09-28: 10 new negative2026-09-30: 1 new negative2026-10-01: 1 new positive2026-10-06: 2 new positive2026-10-06: 1 new negative2026-10-10: 1 new positive2026-10-11: 1 new positive2026-10-12: 2 new positive2026-10-12: 3 new negative2026-10-13: 4 new positive2026-10-14: 2 new positive
New Steam reviews per day (census review snapshots). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$24.99$8.172021-04-082026-10-142021-04-08 — best price $15.292021-12-22 — best price $14.392022-08-31 — best price $15.992022-09-22 — best price $15.992022-11-15 — best price $17.992023-01-05 — best price $19.992023-02-16 — best price $15.992023-04-03 — best price $12.392023-05-18 — best price $19.992023-10-23 — best price $12.992023-12-15 — best price $11.092024-01-24 — best price $17.882024-02-24 — best price $17.992024-03-31 — best price $17.992024-04-19 — best price $8.402024-05-21 — best price $19.992024-06-17 — best price $19.992024-07-11 — best price $19.992024-08-07 — best price $19.262024-09-26 — best price $8.652024-11-21 — best price $8.172024-12-01 — best price $9.022024-12-23 — best price $9.702025-01-02 — best price $9.152025-01-22 — best price $8.792025-02-02 — best price $9.412025-04-05 — best price $9.902025-04-29 — best price $9.402025-06-01 — best price $19.992025-07-04 — best price $8.892025-09-17 — best price $9.192025-11-03 — best price $8.992025-12-08 — best price $19.992026-01-23 — best price $8.172026-03-04 — best price $9.992026-04-24 — best price $9.802026-07-09 — best price $19.992026-08-26 — best price $19.992026-10-14 — best price $24.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Twitch viewers

1.9k02026-09-30 21:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-01 06:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-01 16:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-02 01:34 — 1 viewers2026-10-02 10:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-02 19:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-03 13:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-03 22:34 — 15 viewers2026-10-04 07:34 — 9 viewers2026-10-04 16:34 — 33 viewers2026-10-05 01:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-05 10:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-05 19:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-06 04:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-06 12:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-06 21:34 — 10 viewers2026-10-07 09:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-07 18:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-08 04:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-08 13:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-09 13:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-09 22:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-10 07:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-10 16:34 — 15 viewers2026-10-11 02:34 — 2 viewers2026-10-11 11:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-11 20:35 — 0 viewers2026-10-12 05:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-13 06:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-13 15:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-14 00:34 — 2 viewers2026-10-14 09:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-14 10:34 — 0 viewers
Hourly Twitch viewers (census snapshots).

Completion

60+
achievements tracked
82%
earned "Bloodshed"
54.3%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxSingle-playerMulti-playerCo-opOnline Co-opSteam AchievementsSteam CloudSteam LeaderboardsFamily Sharing15 DLC

8 supported languages: English, Simplified Chinese, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Traditional Chinese, French, German

Post-launch support: 15 DLC released, first 2022-10-24, latest 2026-06-17 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)9,0730%148
PS5 (PlayStation)15815%59
Xbox Series (Xbox)1533%67
Switch (Nintendo)190%0

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

2DRPGCo-opFantasyStrategyCard GameRogue-likeRogue-liteTurn-BasedMultiplayer

Census log

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

Recent updates

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