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Against Great Darkness

Hitreg Studios · Hitreg Studios · 2024-04-10

Steam

ActionAdventureIndieEarly Access

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Bird view / Isometric

Releases: Jan 10, 2024 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Against Great Darkness is a brick-breaking, bullet hell, roguelite where you play as a pagan trying to escape Hell's maw. Trigger relics by keeping your disks bouncing, experience unique events where you can obtain incredible loot, and battle hellish bosses while always keeping an eye on your disks.

81%
positive of 217 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$6.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 11 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 42% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (104 reviews).
  • · Top 28% of 28,023 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 4.3k–9.8k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 217 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $4.75 at Steam (2026-08-17)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $6.99 · on sale 2 of 4 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
10010020242026Week of 2024-04-01: 100 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 28 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 2 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$6.99$4.752024-04-102026-08-242024-04-10 — best price $6.292024-04-17 — best price $6.992024-05-17 — best price $5.592024-05-24 — best price $6.992024-06-27 — best price $5.592024-07-11 — best price $6.992024-08-12 — best price $5.592024-08-19 — best price $6.992026-06-08 — best price $4.892026-06-15 — best price $6.992026-08-17 — best price $4.752026-08-24 — best price $6.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

22
achievements tracked
97.7%
earned "You Are Worthy"
21.5%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)3313%22

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

Player tags

2DDarkLootRetroActionArcadeDemonsShooterMinimalistRogue-like

Census log

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

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