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Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura

Troika Games · Activision · 2016-08-29

Steam

RPG

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative

Imagine a place of wonder, where magick and technology coexist in an uneasy balance, and an adventurer might just as easily wield a flintlock pistol as a flaming sword. Welcome to the land of Arcanum.

19
playing now
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
$5.99
steam price (US)

19 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 04:00 UTC (census sample)

Arcanum begins with a cut scene of the IFS Zephyr, a luxury zeppelin, on her maiden voyage from Caladon to Tarant. Two monoplanes, piloted by Half-Ogre bandits, close in on the craft and commence attack runs, succeeding in shooting it down. An old gnome who is a passenger aboard the Zephyr is now in his death throes under charred debris and tells the player to bring a silver ring to "the boy," and promptly dies. Being the only survivor of the crash, the main character is proclaimed as "The Living One," a holy reincarnate, by the only witness to the crash, Virgil. The story follows the player's(Storyline via IGDB)

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Players online

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Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Details

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Census log

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