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Arco cover art

Arco

Franek · Panic · 2024-08-15

SteamEpic Games Store

ActionIndieStrategy

Modes: Single player

Releases: Aug 15, 2024 (Linux), Aug 15, 2024 (Mac), Aug 15, 2024 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Aug 15, 2024 (Nintendo Switch)

A Mesoamerican fantasy RPG that blends turn-based and real-time combat. Explore the world through three handcrafted stories forged in bloodshed, laced with magic, and united by revenge.

12
playing now
96%
positive of 2.3k reviews
Overwhelmingly Positive
steam rating
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
70/100
IGDB user rating (5 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$19.99
steam price (US)

12 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 05:00 UTC (census sample)

Arco is a 2024 Western-themed turn‐based strategy RPG. It was made by an international team including Polish pixel artist Franek Nowotniak, Australian game developer Max Cahill, Spanish composer and sound designer José Ramón "Bibiki" García, and Mexican developer Antonio "Fayer" Uribe, and published by Panic Inc.⁠

Health check

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 24% of 10,791 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 46k–103k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 2,282 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

lowest across shops (ITAD)$19.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $7.99 at Steam (2026-08-04) · bundled 2×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $19.99 · on sale 14 of 29 observed days (census price snapshots)

Players online

3532026-08-11 19:00 — 29 players2026-08-12 11:00 — 16 players2026-08-13 03:00 — 32 players2026-08-13 19:00 — 33 players2026-08-14 10:00 — 24 players2026-08-15 02:00 — 28 players2026-08-15 18:00 — 35 players2026-08-16 10:00 — 31 players2026-08-17 02:00 — 19 players2026-08-17 18:00 — 29 players2026-08-18 10:00 — 29 players2026-08-19 01:00 — 24 players2026-08-19 17:00 — 26 players2026-08-20 09:00 — 19 players2026-08-21 01:00 — 13 players2026-08-21 16:00 — 14 players2026-08-22 08:00 — 16 players2026-08-23 00:00 — 16 players2026-08-23 16:00 — 24 players2026-08-24 07:00 — 11 players2026-08-24 23:00 — 13 players2026-08-25 15:00 — 11 players2026-08-26 07:00 — 3 players2026-08-27 00:00 — 8 players2026-08-27 13:00 — 4 players2026-08-28 05:00 — 15 players2026-08-28 21:00 — 11 players2026-08-29 13:00 — 18 players2026-08-30 05:00 — 12 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$19.99$7.992024-08-152026-08-182024-08-15 — best price $17.992024-08-29 — best price $19.992024-10-12 — best price $19.992024-11-01 — best price $19.992024-11-25 — best price $19.992024-12-04 — best price $19.992024-12-19 — best price $13.992025-01-16 — best price $19.992025-02-15 — best price $13.992025-03-01 — best price $19.992025-03-20 — best price $19.992025-04-09 — best price $19.992025-06-12 — best price $19.992025-07-10 — best price $19.992025-07-21 — best price $19.992025-09-04 — best price $19.992025-10-20 — best price $19.992025-12-03 — best price $19.992025-12-18 — best price $11.992026-01-19 — best price $19.992026-02-18 — best price $11.992026-03-03 — best price $19.992026-03-26 — best price $19.992026-04-10 — best price $9.992026-04-24 — best price $19.992026-06-01 — best price $9.992026-06-15 — best price $19.992026-07-09 — best price $19.992026-07-30 — best price $19.992026-08-18 — best price $19.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

55182026-05-29 — 33 pageviews2026-06-01 — 32 pageviews2026-06-04 — 36 pageviews2026-06-07 — 32 pageviews2026-06-10 — 35 pageviews2026-06-13 — 21 pageviews2026-06-16 — 26 pageviews2026-06-19 — 28 pageviews2026-06-22 — 25 pageviews2026-06-25 — 26 pageviews2026-06-28 — 27 pageviews2026-07-01 — 36 pageviews2026-07-04 — 34 pageviews2026-07-07 — 27 pageviews2026-07-10 — 29 pageviews2026-07-13 — 24 pageviews2026-07-16 — 21 pageviews2026-07-19 — 18 pageviews2026-07-22 — 30 pageviews2026-07-25 — 36 pageviews2026-07-28 — 32 pageviews2026-07-31 — 36 pageviews2026-08-03 — 34 pageviews2026-08-06 — 34 pageviews2026-08-09 — 44 pageviews2026-08-12 — 31 pageviews2026-08-15 — 37 pageviews2026-08-18 — 53 pageviews2026-08-21 — 36 pageviews2026-08-24 — 42 pageviews2026-08-26 — 28 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

54
achievements tracked
74.7%
earned "Pilgrimage"
10.7%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam Trading CardsSteam CloudFamily Sharing1 DLC

7 supported languages: English, German, Japanese, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish - Latin America

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)1,0971%54
Switch (Nintendo)360%0

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

Player tags

RPGFantasyStrategyAdventureStory RichAtmosphericExplorationConversationChoices MatterPixel Graphics

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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