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Amerzone: The Explorer’s Legacy (1999) cover art

Amerzone: The Explorer’s Legacy (1999)

Microids · 2014-08-22

SteamGOG

AdventureCasual

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: First person

Releases: Jan 30, 2014 (Android), Sep 28, 2012 (iOS), Oct 18, 1999 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Dec 13, 1999 (PlayStation), Oct 18, 1999 (Mac)

The first adventure from the author of Syberia and Syberia 2, Benoît Sokal. In Amerzone you'll travel through enchanting landscapes, from Brittany to tropical forest. You'll have to solve the mystery of these famous white birds…

1
playing now
74%
positive of 743 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
90/100
critic score (1 outlets, IGDB)
69/100
IGDB user rating (18 ratings)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Verified
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$12.99
steam price (US)

1 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 02:00 UTC (census sample)

Amerzone is a first-person fantasy graphic adventure game developed and published by Microïds and designed by Benoît Sokal, who based it on his 1986 Inspector Canardo comic strip L'Amerzone. Amerzone was originally released for Microsoft Windows, the classic Mac OS and PlayStation in 1999, and re-released for iOS and Android in 2014 by Anuman Interactive, who had bought out Microïds in 2009. A remake was released on 24 April 2025.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 1 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 14 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity up 0% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 16% of 28,623 Adventure games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-31

Estimated sales: 19k–45k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 743 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

GOG$2.59-80%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $0.25 at Gamesload (2020-07-24) · bundled 7×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $33.95 · on sale 137 of 138 observed days · $2.34 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
6620172026Week of 2017-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 negativeWeek 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 2025-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 2 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

502026-09-15 03:00 — 1 players2026-09-16 11:00 — 1 players2026-09-17 19:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 02:00 — 2 players2026-09-20 10:00 — 2 players2026-09-21 17:00 — 1 players2026-09-23 01:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 08:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 16:00 — 0 players2026-09-26 23:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 07:00 — 1 players2026-09-29 14:00 — 2 players2026-09-30 22:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 05:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 13:00 — 0 players2026-10-04 21:00 — 2 players2026-10-06 05:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 12:00 — 1 players2026-10-08 20:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 03:00 — 1 players2026-10-11 11:00 — 0 players2026-10-12 18:00 — 1 players2026-10-14 02:00 — 1 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
380Aug 2014Nov 2025Aug 2014 — avg 2 · peak 12Nov 2014 — avg 1 · peak 8Feb 2015 — avg 1 · peak 4May 2015 — avg 0 · peak 5Aug 2015 — avg 0 · peak 3Nov 2015 — avg 0 · peak 3Feb 2016 — avg 0 · peak 4May 2016 — avg 0 · peak 3Aug 2016 — avg 0 · peak 2Nov 2016 — avg 0 · peak 4Feb 2017 — avg 0 · peak 5May 2017 — avg 0 · peak 3Aug 2017 — avg 0 · peak 3Nov 2017 — avg 0 · peak 4Feb 2018 — avg 0 · peak 3May 2018 — avg 0 · peak 3Aug 2018 — avg 0 · peak 3Nov 2018 — avg 0 · peak 3Feb 2019 — avg 0 · peak 5May 2019 — avg 0 · peak 5Aug 2019 — avg 0 · peak 3Dec 2019 — avg 1 · peak 5Apr 2020 — avg 1 · peak 7Jul 2020 — avg 1 · peak 4Nov 2020 — avg 1 · peak 6Feb 2021 — avg 1 · peak 5May 2021 — avg 1 · peak 8Dec 2021 — avg 1 · peak 6May 2022 — avg 1 · peak 5Mar 2023 — avg 1 · peak 5May 2025 — avg 4 · peak 13Oct 2025 — avg 2 · peak 8Nov 2025 — avg 2 · peak 7
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$16.19$0.252015-01-012026-10-142015-01-01 — best price $1.242015-12-22 — best price $0.992016-07-22 — best price $1.992017-01-03 — best price $9.952017-08-07 — best price $4.992018-02-19 — best price $4.992018-09-26 — best price $0.992019-02-09 — best price $4.992019-07-22 — best price $0.992019-12-02 — best price $4.992020-02-29 — best price $3.992020-07-17 — best price $0.492020-10-14 — best price $0.492020-12-29 — best price $0.502021-04-09 — best price $4.992021-07-18 — best price $9.952021-11-16 — best price $4.992022-02-11 — best price $0.492022-07-27 — best price $4.992022-12-16 — best price $1.242023-03-28 — best price $4.482023-07-04 — best price $4.992023-10-11 — best price $4.992023-12-11 — best price $0.992024-03-07 — best price $1.292024-05-10 — best price $0.662024-07-26 — best price $1.952024-09-27 — best price $0.502024-11-27 — best price $0.902025-06-10 — best price $0.902025-10-28 — best price $2.592026-02-28 — best price $12.992026-05-08 — best price $4.942026-07-13 — best price $4.442026-09-09 — best price $2.592026-10-04 — best price $2.592026-10-14 — best price $2.59
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

117412026-05-30 — 62 pageviews2026-06-03 — 62 pageviews2026-06-07 — 62 pageviews2026-06-11 — 64 pageviews2026-06-15 — 76 pageviews2026-06-19 — 91 pageviews2026-06-23 — 92 pageviews2026-06-27 — 78 pageviews2026-07-01 — 76 pageviews2026-07-05 — 80 pageviews2026-07-09 — 67 pageviews2026-07-13 — 69 pageviews2026-07-17 — 56 pageviews2026-07-21 — 68 pageviews2026-07-25 — 73 pageviews2026-07-29 — 77 pageviews2026-08-02 — 76 pageviews2026-08-06 — 52 pageviews2026-08-10 — 58 pageviews2026-08-14 — 55 pageviews2026-08-18 — 73 pageviews2026-08-22 — 58 pageviews2026-08-26 — 80 pageviews2026-08-30 — 83 pageviews2026-09-03 — 51 pageviews2026-09-07 — 85 pageviews2026-09-11 — 41 pageviews2026-09-15 — 57 pageviews2026-09-19 — 59 pageviews2026-09-23 — 69 pageviews2026-09-27 — 67 pageviews2026-10-01 — 83 pageviews2026-10-05 — 47 pageviews2026-10-08 — 67 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerFamily Sharing

5 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain

Player tags

CasualPuzzleAdventureAtmosphericFirst-PersonSingleplayerPoint & Click

Census log

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

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