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Age of Darkness: Final Stand cover art

Age of Darkness: Final Stand

PlaySide · 2025-01-15

Steam

Strategy

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative · Perspectives: Bird view / Isometric

Releases: Oct 07, 2021 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Age of Darkness: Final Stand is a dark fantasy survival RTS where you must illuminate, build and defend humanity’s last bastion against hordes of Nightmares. Set in the remnants of a kingdom consumed by a deadly fog, you decide. Will you hide in the light? Or take back your world.

Age of Darkness: Final Stand is a 2025 Strategy game priced at $27.99, with an owner estimate of 200,000 .. 500,000 and a Mostly Positive review sentiment (74% of 10645 reviews).

104
playing now
74%
positive of 11k reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
68/100
IGDB user rating (11 ratings)
2
Nexus mods (172 downloads)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$27.99
steam price (US)

104 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 12:00 UTC (census sample)

The darkness is an entity of evil. Some say it is the manifestation of human fear and nightmares, others say it is a wandering mass of damned souls haunting us. The origin of the darkness itself is unknown, but one thing for certain is that we can keep it at bay through the power of light and fire. Brace yourself against huge tidal waves of Nightmares. Leveraging an internally developed technology called ‘SwarmTech’ allows the game to render over 70,000 enemy units on the screen at one time. These enemy legions claw their way up through seething fissures in the earth to reinforce ‘The Veil’.(Storyline via IGDB)

Trailer

Age of Darkness: Final Stand trailer thumbnail

Age of Darkness: Final Stand – Exclusive Extended Launch Trailer

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Health check

Healthy
  • · 104 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 521 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~65/week).
  • · Review velocity down 26% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (1,633 reviews).
  • · Top 3% of 14,027 Strategy games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 213k–479k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 10,645 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $8.29 at GameBillet (2025-01-23)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $27.99 · on sale 71 of 93 observed days (census price snapshots)

Featured in Valve's Top Releases of February 2025 (#20)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
1.3k1.3k20212026Week of 2021-10-01: 1,290 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 147 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 487 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 45 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 561 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 102 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 285 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 37 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 165 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 36 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 90 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 23 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 132 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 59 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 186 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 41 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 97 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 28 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 93 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 17 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 109 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 50 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 50 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 28 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 45 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 22 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 133 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 44 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 93 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 47 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 70 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 24 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 52 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 62 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 20 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 114 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 61 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 75 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 43 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 34 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 18 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 26 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 30 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 34 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 31 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 35 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 30 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 35 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 64 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 35 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 47 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 33 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 59 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 23 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 39 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 20 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 28 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 24 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 18 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 63 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 22 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 29 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 49 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 17 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 59 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 16 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 31 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 30 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 30 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 61 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 1,127 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 506 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 319 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 179 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 93 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 87 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 52 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 38 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 61 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 23 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 80 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 38 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 50 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 24 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 47 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 36 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 35 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 16 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 43 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 17 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 112 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 30 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 71 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 45 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 50 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 50 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 35 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 27 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 30 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 41 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 20 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 32 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 28 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 17 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 15 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

228562026-09-14 21:00 — 73 players2026-09-16 06:00 — 56 players2026-09-17 13:00 — 96 players2026-09-18 21:00 — 115 players2026-09-20 04:00 — 107 players2026-09-21 12:00 — 123 players2026-09-22 19:00 — 132 players2026-09-24 03:00 — 86 players2026-09-25 10:00 — 120 players2026-09-26 18:00 — 191 players2026-09-28 01:00 — 118 players2026-09-29 09:00 — 100 players2026-09-30 16:00 — 136 players2026-10-02 00:00 — 89 players2026-10-03 07:00 — 110 players2026-10-04 16:00 — 228 players2026-10-05 23:00 — 103 players2026-10-07 07:00 — 83 players2026-10-08 14:00 — 130 players2026-10-09 22:00 — 125 players2026-10-11 05:00 — 119 players2026-10-12 13:00 — 115 players2026-10-13 20:00 — 97 players2026-10-14 12:00 — 104 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
1.8k105Oct 2021Aug 2026Oct 2021 — avg 1,069 · peak 3,509Dec 2021 — avg 608 · peak 1,400Feb 2022 — avg 284 · peak 577Apr 2022 — avg 308 · peak 690Jun 2022 — avg 243 · peak 438Aug 2022 — avg 259 · peak 607Oct 2022 — avg 147 · peak 292Dec 2022 — avg 258 · peak 545Feb 2023 — avg 176 · peak 359Apr 2023 — avg 331 · peak 1,349Jun 2023 — avg 139 · peak 284Aug 2023 — avg 116 · peak 213Oct 2023 — avg 140 · peak 320Dec 2023 — avg 176 · peak 314Feb 2024 — avg 178 · peak 387Apr 2024 — avg 106 · peak 220Jun 2024 — avg 127 · peak 233Aug 2024 — avg 167 · peak 362Oct 2024 — avg 112 · peak 209Dec 2024 — avg 153 · peak 307Feb 2025 — avg 983 · peak 3,118Apr 2025 — avg 262 · peak 528Jun 2025 — avg 243 · peak 532Aug 2025 — avg 195 · peak 429Oct 2025 — avg 155 · peak 303Dec 2025 — avg 205 · peak 559Feb 2026 — avg 158 · peak 312Apr 2026 — avg 136 · peak 268Jun 2026 — avg 105 · peak 207Aug 2026 — avg 122 · peak 230
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$27.99$7.232021-10-072026-08-252021-10-07 — best price $17.492021-12-13 — best price $14.992022-01-24 — best price $13.522022-03-01 — best price $16.492022-04-05 — best price $18.472022-05-03 — best price $16.492022-06-03 — best price $14.292022-07-29 — best price $19.762022-08-27 — best price $21.992022-09-29 — best price $18.472022-11-19 — best price $14.892022-12-23 — best price $13.872023-02-02 — best price $18.692023-04-19 — best price $14.732023-05-23 — best price $18.252023-07-13 — best price $21.992023-09-18 — best price $14.732023-11-04 — best price $21.992023-12-22 — best price $12.172024-02-11 — best price $15.742024-03-15 — best price $12.292024-04-19 — best price $14.732024-10-28 — best price $25.992025-01-15 — best price $7.232025-02-22 — best price $9.652025-07-17 — best price $10.212025-08-27 — best price $27.992025-10-27 — best price $13.992026-01-05 — best price $27.992026-03-14 — best price $20.692026-05-07 — best price $13.852026-06-01 — best price $13.852026-07-14 — best price $22.282026-08-25 — best price $11.52
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

60+
achievements tracked
54.6%
earned "Paltry Sum"
7.4%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerMulti-playerCo-opOnline Co-opSteam AchievementsSteam Trading CardsSteam CloudFamily Sharing

7 supported languages: English, French, German, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish - Spain

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)3,2910%66

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

3DPvERTSFantasyBuildingMedievalStrategyStylizedSurvivalTactical

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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