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Ancient Guardian

North Lab · 2019-12-23

Steam

ActionAdventureIndie

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: First person

Releases: Dec 21, 2016 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Ancient Guardian - action adventure in procedurally-generated locations. You play as father, who have to find his lost daughter, avoiding meeting dangerous enemies, bypassing traps and solving puzzles.

Ancient Guardian is an Action, Adventure, and Indie game released in 2019, priced at $7.99, with an estimated 100,000 to 200,000 owners and a Mostly Positive review sentiment (72% of 160 reviews).

0
playing now
73%
positive of 160 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
70/100
IGDB user rating (0 ratings)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$7.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 16:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 10 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity up 43% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 32% of 27,667 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-01

Estimated sales: 4.0k–9.6k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 160 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.69 at Steam (2018-01-15) · bundled 2×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $7.99 · on sale 5 of 10 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
7720162026Week of 2016-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2017-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2017-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2017-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-04-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2017-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-05-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2017-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-09-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2017-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-10-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2017-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2017-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2018-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2018-10-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

102026-09-15 01:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 09:00 — 0 players2026-09-17 17:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 00:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 08:00 — 0 players2026-09-21 16:00 — 0 players2026-09-22 23:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 07:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 14:00 — 0 players2026-09-26 22:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 05:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 13:00 — 0 players2026-09-30 20:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 04:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 11:00 — 1 players2026-10-04 19:00 — 1 players2026-10-06 03:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 10:00 — 0 players2026-10-08 18:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 01:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 09:00 — 0 players2026-10-12 17:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 00:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 16:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$7.99$0.692016-12-212026-07-092016-12-21 — best price $6.292017-03-30 — best price $5.592017-06-05 — best price $3.842017-08-21 — best price $1.042017-11-22 — best price $1.742018-01-15 — best price $0.692018-03-19 — best price $0.692018-06-22 — best price $0.692018-09-24 — best price $0.692018-11-22 — best price $0.692019-02-04 — best price $1.392019-04-29 — best price $4.892019-09-09 — best price $4.892019-12-23 — best price $5.592020-06-25 — best price $1.992020-10-12 — best price $3.992021-02-11 — best price $3.992021-04-12 — best price $3.992021-06-25 — best price $3.992021-11-24 — best price $5.992022-01-27 — best price $3.992022-10-25 — best price $2.392022-12-22 — best price $3.992023-06-29 — best price $0.792023-11-21 — best price $3.992024-05-13 — best price $1.992024-11-27 — best price $3.992025-07-02 — best price $0.872025-10-27 — best price $0.872026-03-19 — best price $1.192026-06-25 — best price $0.872026-07-09 — best price $7.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

60+
achievements tracked
12.7%
earned "The first meeting"
8.2%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam Trading CardsSteam CloudStatsSteam LeaderboardsFamily Sharing

12 supported languages: English, Russian, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Arabic, Simplified Chinese, Korean, Portuguese - Portugal, Turkish, Japanese

Player tags

IndieActionHorrorViolentAdventureEarly AccessProcedural Generation

Census log

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

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