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Artifact Adventure

bluffman · PLAYISM · 2015-06-01

Steam

IndieRPG

Modes: Single player

Releases: Jun 01, 2015 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

The horribly toxic Swamp King has risen once again! Gather your party and set out on an open world, retro-styled, RPG adventure. Powerful mystical artifacts are scattered about the world, each able to grant you new powers. Which will you choose? What is your destiny?

Artifact Adventure is a 2015 Indie and RPG game priced at $6.99, with an estimated 20,000 to 50,000 owners and Mostly Positive reviews (73% of 185 reviews).

1
playing now
73%
positive of 185 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
60/100
IGDB user rating (1 ratings)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unsupported
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Unsupported
$6.99
steam price (US)

1 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 23:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 1 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 16 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity up 23% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 26% of 50,052 Indie games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-01

Estimated sales: 4.6k–11k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 185 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $1.39 at Steam (2020-09-24)via IsThereAnyDeal

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
101020152026Week of 2015-06-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2015-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2015-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2015-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2015-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2015-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2016-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2016-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-07-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2016-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2016-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2016-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2017-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-02-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2017-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2017-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

202026-09-16 00:00 — 0 players2026-09-17 08:00 — 2 players2026-09-18 16:00 — 2 players2026-09-19 23:00 — 0 players2026-09-21 07:00 — 2 players2026-09-22 14:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 22:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 05:00 — 0 players2026-09-26 13:00 — 0 players2026-09-27 20:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 04:00 — 0 players2026-09-30 11:00 — 0 players2026-10-01 19:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 02:00 — 0 players2026-10-04 10:00 — 0 players2026-10-05 18:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 02:00 — 0 players2026-10-08 09:00 — 1 players2026-10-09 17:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 00:00 — 0 players2026-10-12 08:00 — 0 players2026-10-13 15:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 23:00 — 1 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
60Jun 2015Aug 2025Jun 2015 — avg 4 · peak 19Aug 2015 — avg 4 · peak 23Oct 2015 — avg 2 · peak 9Dec 2015 — avg 1 · peak 6Feb 2016 — avg 1 · peak 6Apr 2016 — avg 1 · peak 3Jun 2016 — avg 1 · peak 8Aug 2016 — avg 4 · peak 25Oct 2016 — avg 1 · peak 5Dec 2016 — avg 2 · peak 13Feb 2017 — avg 1 · peak 7Apr 2017 — avg 1 · peak 6Jun 2017 — avg 2 · peak 9Aug 2017 — avg 1 · peak 5Oct 2017 — avg 1 · peak 5Dec 2017 — avg 1 · peak 7Feb 2018 — avg 1 · peak 7Apr 2018 — avg 1 · peak 7Jun 2018 — avg 1 · peak 7Aug 2018 — avg 1 · peak 5Oct 2018 — avg 1 · peak 6Dec 2018 — avg 1 · peak 5Feb 2019 — avg 1 · peak 4Apr 2019 — avg 1 · peak 4Jun 2019 — avg 1 · peak 5Aug 2019 — avg 1 · peak 4Oct 2019 — avg 1 · peak 6Dec 2019 — avg 1 · peak 4Feb 2020 — avg 1 · peak 3Apr 2020 — avg 1 · peak 4Jun 2020 — avg 1 · peak 5Aug 2020 — avg 1 · peak 3Oct 2020 — avg 1 · peak 4Dec 2020 — avg 1 · peak 5Feb 2021 — avg 1 · peak 3Apr 2021 — avg 1 · peak 3Jun 2021 — avg 2 · peak 5Jun 2023 — avg 1 · peak 4Aug 2025 — avg 1 · peak 4

No change (0) in avg players vs prior month — Aug 2025

Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$6.99$1.392015-06-012025-08-142015-06-01 — best price $6.292015-08-10 — best price $5.592015-11-25 — best price $4.192016-01-21 — best price $3.492016-03-21 — best price $2.792016-06-23 — best price $2.092016-11-07 — best price $1.742016-12-22 — best price $1.742017-03-20 — best price $3.492017-06-22 — best price $3.492017-11-06 — best price $3.492017-12-21 — best price $3.492018-02-15 — best price $3.492018-05-14 — best price $3.492018-07-16 — best price $3.492018-10-23 — best price $3.492018-12-21 — best price $2.792019-02-04 — best price $2.792019-03-25 — best price $2.302019-05-10 — best price $2.312019-06-25 — best price $2.302019-10-14 — best price $2.092019-11-10 — best price $2.092019-12-19 — best price $2.092020-04-30 — best price $2.092020-06-25 — best price $2.092020-10-29 — best price $1.392020-12-22 — best price $1.392021-03-01 — best price $1.392021-05-15 — best price $1.392021-06-24 — best price $1.392021-09-27 — best price $1.392021-11-06 — best price $1.392021-12-22 — best price $1.392022-02-14 — best price $1.392022-12-03 — best price $1.392023-05-20 — best price $1.392023-11-21 — best price $3.072024-09-18 — best price $1.392025-08-14 — best price $6.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam Trading CardsPartial Controller SupportFamily Sharing

2 supported languages: English, Japanese

Player tags

2DRPGJRPGIndieRetroFantasyMedievalRPGMakerNonlinearTurn-Based

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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