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Arco cover art

Arco

Franek · Panic · 2024-08-15

SteamEpic Games Store

ActionIndieStrategy

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Bird view / Isometric

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.

Arco is an Action Indie Strategy game released in 2024, priced at $19.99, with an estimated 100,000 .. 200,000 owners and an Overwhelmingly Positive review sentiment (96% of 2302 reviews).

7
playing now
96%
positive of 2.3k reviews
Overwhelmingly Positive
steam's rating (official)
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
70/100
IGDB user rating (5 ratings)
1
Nexus mods (8 downloads)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Verified
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$19.99
steam price (US)

7 players in-game as of 2026-10-15 06:00 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

Healthy
  • · 7 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 314 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~39/week).
  • · Review velocity down 32% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 10% of 27,908 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-30

Estimated sales: 46k–104k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 2,302 total reviews — how this is computed.

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

12-month high $19.99 · on sale 13 of 27 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
39739720242026Week of 2024-08-01: 397 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 214 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 137 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 93 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 112 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 201 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 104 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 72 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 41 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 32 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 33 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 91 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 81 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 72 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 42 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 39 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 46 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 45 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 39 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 33 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 35 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 33 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 39 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 32 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 38 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 3 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

2022026-09-15 16:00 — 3 players2026-09-17 00:00 — 7 players2026-09-18 07:00 — 3 players2026-09-19 15:00 — 11 players2026-09-20 22:00 — 5 players2026-09-22 06:00 — 2 players2026-09-23 14:00 — 5 players2026-09-24 21:00 — 11 players2026-09-26 05:00 — 9 players2026-09-27 12:00 — 10 players2026-09-28 20:00 — 3 players2026-09-30 03:00 — 5 players2026-10-01 11:00 — 6 players2026-10-02 18:00 — 8 players2026-10-04 02:00 — 16 players2026-10-05 10:00 — 12 players2026-10-06 17:00 — 12 players2026-10-08 01:00 — 11 players2026-10-09 08:00 — 7 players2026-10-10 16:00 — 20 players2026-10-12 00:00 — 18 players2026-10-13 07:00 — 7 players2026-10-14 15:00 — 11 players2026-10-15 06:00 — 7 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
807Aug 2024Aug 2026Aug 2024 — avg 80 · peak 160Sep 2024 — avg 32 · peak 113Oct 2024 — avg 36 · peak 120Nov 2024 — avg 24 · peak 63Dec 2024 — avg 32 · peak 77Jan 2025 — avg 52 · peak 124Feb 2025 — avg 27 · peak 77Mar 2025 — avg 23 · peak 56Apr 2025 — avg 11 · peak 37May 2025 — avg 8 · peak 29Jun 2025 — avg 10 · peak 52Jul 2025 — avg 20 · peak 46Aug 2025 — avg 30 · peak 107Sep 2025 — avg 18 · peak 68Oct 2025 — avg 14 · peak 37Nov 2025 — avg 12 · peak 31Dec 2025 — avg 11 · peak 27Jan 2026 — avg 15 · peak 40Feb 2026 — avg 9 · peak 27Mar 2026 — avg 9 · peak 26Apr 2026 — avg 13 · peak 39May 2026 — avg 7 · peak 20Jun 2026 — avg 12 · peak 33Jul 2026 — avg 10 · peak 23Aug 2026 — avg 20 · peak 48
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

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

45182026-05-29 — 33 pageviews2026-06-02 — 26 pageviews2026-06-06 — 41 pageviews2026-06-10 — 35 pageviews2026-06-14 — 26 pageviews2026-06-18 — 32 pageviews2026-06-22 — 25 pageviews2026-06-26 — 27 pageviews2026-06-30 — 39 pageviews2026-07-04 — 34 pageviews2026-07-08 — 22 pageviews2026-07-12 — 20 pageviews2026-07-16 — 21 pageviews2026-07-20 — 36 pageviews2026-07-24 — 21 pageviews2026-07-28 — 32 pageviews2026-08-01 — 28 pageviews2026-08-05 — 45 pageviews2026-08-09 — 44 pageviews2026-08-13 — 44 pageviews2026-08-17 — 37 pageviews2026-08-21 — 36 pageviews2026-08-25 — 37 pageviews2026-08-29 — 30 pageviews2026-09-02 — 20 pageviews2026-09-06 — 26 pageviews2026-09-10 — 22 pageviews2026-09-14 — 36 pageviews2026-09-18 — 44 pageviews2026-09-22 — 26 pageviews2026-09-26 — 25 pageviews2026-09-30 — 27 pageviews2026-10-04 — 33 pageviews2026-10-07 — 23 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

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2024-08-15 (Steam store data)

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.

Where its players are

Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.

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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