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Ancient Guardian

North Lab · 2019-12-23

Steam

ActionAdventureIndie

Modes: Single player

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.

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

0 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 06:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

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  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 62% of 10,970 Action games in the census by review count.
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 6 of 12 observed days (census price snapshots)

Players online

102026-08-11 18:00 — 1 players2026-08-12 10:00 — 0 players2026-08-13 02:00 — 0 players2026-08-13 17:00 — 0 players2026-08-14 09:00 — 0 players2026-08-15 01:00 — 0 players2026-08-15 17:00 — 0 players2026-08-16 09:00 — 0 players2026-08-17 01:00 — 0 players2026-08-17 17:00 — 0 players2026-08-18 08:00 — 0 players2026-08-19 00:00 — 0 players2026-08-19 16:00 — 0 players2026-08-20 08:00 — 0 players2026-08-20 23:00 — 0 players2026-08-21 15:00 — 0 players2026-08-22 07:00 — 0 players2026-08-22 23:00 — 0 players2026-08-23 14:00 — 0 players2026-08-24 06:00 — 0 players2026-08-24 22:00 — 0 players2026-08-25 14:00 — 0 players2026-08-26 06:00 — 0 players2026-08-26 23:00 — 0 players2026-08-27 14:00 — 0 players2026-08-28 06:00 — 0 players2026-08-28 22:00 — 0 players2026-08-29 14:00 — 0 players2026-08-30 06:00 — 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).

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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