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Arcane Sorcery cover art

Arcane Sorcery

Andrew Rowe · 2015-09-15

Steam

IndieStrategy

Modes: Single player

Releases: Sep 15, 2015 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Sep 15, 2015 (Mac)

Arcane Sorcery is a 4x strategy game. You are a sorcerer king. Cast powerful spells from afar from one of 4 spell books. Train units and build your economy. High strategy on a campaign map as well in turn base battles. Challenging AI that does not get buffs in all but the hardest difficulty.

Arcane Sorcery is a free-to-play Indie and Strategy game released in 2015, estimated to have 200,000 .. 500,000 owners and a Mixed sentiment (64% of 72 reviews).

0
playing now
63%
positive of 73 reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
70/100
IGDB user rating (0 ratings)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
Free
steam price (US)

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

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 9 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity up 0% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 42% of 49,548 Indie games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-02

All-time low: $0.49 at Steam (2018-12-20) · bundled 3×via IsThereAnyDeal

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
4420152026Week of 2015-09-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2015-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2016-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

202026-09-14 23:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 07:00 — 0 players2026-09-17 15:00 — 0 players2026-09-18 22:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 06:00 — 0 players2026-09-21 13:00 — 0 players2026-09-22 21:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 04:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 12:00 — 0 players2026-09-26 19:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 03:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 10:00 — 0 players2026-09-30 18:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 01:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 09:00 — 0 players2026-10-04 17:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 01:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 08:00 — 1 players2026-10-08 16:00 — 1 players2026-10-09 23:00 — 2 players2026-10-11 07:00 — 1 players2026-10-12 14:00 — 1 players2026-10-13 22:00 — 1 players2026-10-14 14:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$6.99$0.002015-09-152020-05-252015-09-15 — best price $6.992015-09-28 — best price $6.992015-10-20 — best price $5.992015-11-30 — best price $6.992016-01-04 — best price $6.992016-06-13 — best price $6.992016-08-15 — best price $1.742016-10-17 — best price $1.742017-01-16 — best price $1.392017-03-21 — best price $1.392017-06-22 — best price $1.392017-08-14 — best price $1.392017-10-16 — best price $0.762017-12-17 — best price $4.992018-01-22 — best price $4.992018-03-26 — best price $4.992018-05-28 — best price $4.992018-09-17 — best price $4.992018-11-27 — best price $4.992019-01-03 — best price $4.992019-01-28 — best price $4.992020-04-21 — best price $4.772020-05-12 — best price $4.772020-05-25 — best price $6.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsmacOSSingle-playerSteam Trading CardsCaptions availableFamily Sharing1 DLC

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2019-03-05 (Steam store data)

Player tags

2D4XPvEFantasyGod GameStrategyTop-DownIsometricRealisticTurn-Based

Census log

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

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