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Ancient Dungeon

Eric Thullen · 2021-11-03

SteamPlayStation Store

ActionAdventureIndieRPGEarly Access

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative · Perspectives: Virtual Reality

Releases: Nov 03, 2021 (SteamVR), Sep 15, 2022 (Oculus Quest), Dec 07, 2023 (PlayStation VR2)

Ancient Dungeon VR is a fast-paced roguelite dungeon crawler built for VR. Explore procedurally generated dungeons, slash enemies, collect loot, and unlock upgrades in immersive physics-based combat. Play solo or co-op with up to 4 players.

Ancient Dungeon is a $19.99 Action, Adventure, Indie, and RPG game released in 2021, estimated to have 50,000 .. 100,000 owners, with Overwhelmingly Positive (95% of 1764 reviews).

12
playing now
95%
positive of 1.8k reviews
Overwhelmingly Positive
steam's rating (official)
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
20
Nexus mods (16k downloads)
4.71★
PlayStation Store rating (815 ratings)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unsupported
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$19.99
steam price (US)

12 players in-game as of 2026-10-15 09:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 12 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 153 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~19/week).
  • · Review velocity up 1% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 12% of 27,909 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 35k–79k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 1,764 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $12.99 at Steam (2025-12-18) · bundled 1×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $19.99 · on sale 3 of 7 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
21621620212026Week of 2021-11-01: 216 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 67 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 77 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 28 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 51 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 65 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 29 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 28 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 74 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 28 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 31 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 37 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 29 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 34 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 31 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

4932026-09-15 18:00 — 15 players2026-09-17 02:00 — 20 players2026-09-18 10:00 — 8 players2026-09-19 17:00 — 24 players2026-09-21 01:00 — 25 players2026-09-22 08:00 — 8 players2026-09-23 16:00 — 10 players2026-09-24 23:00 — 22 players2026-09-26 07:00 — 14 players2026-09-27 14:00 — 22 players2026-09-28 22:00 — 16 players2026-09-30 05:00 — 20 players2026-10-01 13:00 — 18 players2026-10-02 20:00 — 38 players2026-10-04 04:00 — 26 players2026-10-05 12:00 — 8 players2026-10-06 20:00 — 33 players2026-10-08 03:00 — 27 players2026-10-09 11:00 — 9 players2026-10-10 18:00 — 49 players2026-10-12 02:00 — 40 players2026-10-13 09:00 — 11 players2026-10-14 17:00 — 22 players2026-10-15 09:00 — 12 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
395Nov 2021Aug 2026Nov 2021 — avg 25 · peak 86Jan 2022 — avg 18 · peak 54Mar 2022 — avg 5 · peak 14May 2022 — avg 6 · peak 19Jul 2022 — avg 9 · peak 39Sep 2022 — avg 5 · peak 14Nov 2022 — avg 7 · peak 24Jan 2023 — avg 27 · peak 84Mar 2023 — avg 11 · peak 35May 2023 — avg 7 · peak 23Jul 2023 — avg 9 · peak 24Sep 2023 — avg 5 · peak 17Nov 2023 — avg 13 · peak 85Jan 2024 — avg 24 · peak 63Mar 2024 — avg 10 · peak 34May 2024 — avg 14 · peak 48Jul 2024 — avg 16 · peak 42Sep 2024 — avg 9 · peak 28Nov 2024 — avg 8 · peak 35Jan 2025 — avg 17 · peak 56Mar 2025 — avg 17 · peak 76May 2025 — avg 10 · peak 29Jul 2025 — avg 11 · peak 118Sep 2025 — avg 11 · peak 33Nov 2025 — avg 12 · peak 41Jan 2026 — avg 16 · peak 104Mar 2026 — avg 13 · peak 37May 2026 — avg 15 · peak 45Jul 2026 — avg 16 · peak 41Aug 2026 — avg 12 · peak 32
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$19.99$12.992021-11-032026-07-092021-11-03 — best price $19.992022-01-05 — best price $19.992022-02-03 — best price $19.992022-05-09 — best price $19.992022-07-07 — best price $19.992022-07-25 — best price $19.992022-11-29 — best price $19.992023-01-05 — best price $19.992023-03-23 — best price $19.992023-07-13 — best price $19.992023-11-28 — best price $19.992023-12-11 — best price $19.992024-01-04 — best price $19.992024-05-20 — best price $19.992024-07-11 — best price $19.992024-12-04 — best price $19.992025-01-02 — best price $19.992025-03-20 — best price $19.992025-07-10 — best price $19.992025-09-23 — best price $19.992025-10-06 — best price $19.992026-01-05 — best price $19.992026-03-26 — best price $19.992026-06-26 — best price $19.992026-07-09 — best price $19.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

60+
achievements tracked
97.2%
earned "Good Luck!"
5.2%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerMulti-playerCo-opOnline Co-opCross-Platform MultiplayerSteam AchievementsTracked Controller SupportVR OnlySteam CloudFamily Sharing1 DLC

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2026-04-30 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
PS5, PS VR2 (PlayStation)4783%55

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

Player tags

VRRPGLootIndieVoxelActionAdventureRogue-likeRogue-litePerma Death

Census log

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

Recent updates

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