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Avernum 4 cover art

Avernum 4

Spiderweb Software · 2012-05-11

Steam

RPGIndie

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Bird view / Isometric

Releases: Mar 02, 2006 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Dec 12, 2005 (Mac)

Avernum 4 is the first chapter in the Great Trials Trilogy, three games that tell the tale of your land’s struggles in the face of powerful forces that seek to destroy it.

Avernum 4 is an RPG and Indie game released in 2012, priced at $4.99, with a Very Positive review sentiment (84% of 112 reviews) and an estimated owner count of 50,000 .. 100,000.

0
playing now
84%
positive of 112 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
70/100
IGDB user rating (1 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$4.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 19:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 7 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 22% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 45% of 13,902 RPG games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-01

Estimated sales: 4.5k–9.0k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 112 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.49 at Steam (2015-06-15)via IsThereAnyDeal

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
3320122026Week of 2012-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2012-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2012-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2013-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2013-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2014-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2014-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2014-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2014-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2014-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2014-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2014-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2014-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2014-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2014-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2014-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2014-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2015-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2015-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

202026-09-15 04:00 — 2 players2026-09-16 13:00 — 2 players2026-09-17 20:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 04:00 — 1 players2026-09-20 11:00 — 0 players2026-09-21 19:00 — 2 players2026-09-23 02:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 10:00 — 1 players2026-09-25 17:00 — 0 players2026-09-27 01:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 08:00 — 1 players2026-09-29 16:00 — 2 players2026-09-30 23:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 07:00 — 1 players2026-10-03 14:00 — 1 players2026-10-04 23:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 06:00 — 1 players2026-10-07 14:00 — 0 players2026-10-08 21:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 05:00 — 1 players2026-10-11 12:00 — 0 players2026-10-12 20:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 03:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 19:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
201Jul 2012Feb 2026Jul 2012 — avg 20 · peak 37Nov 2012 — avg 10 · peak 26Mar 2013 — avg 6 · peak 18Jul 2013 — avg 6 · peak 16Nov 2013 — avg 3 · peak 8Mar 2014 — avg 3 · peak 9Jul 2014 — avg 8 · peak 26Nov 2014 — avg 6 · peak 27Mar 2015 — avg 7 · peak 19Jul 2015 — avg 2 · peak 8Nov 2015 — avg 4 · peak 13Mar 2016 — avg 3 · peak 10Jul 2016 — avg 2 · peak 9Nov 2016 — avg 3 · peak 13Mar 2017 — avg 4 · peak 10Jul 2017 — avg 3 · peak 9Nov 2017 — avg 3 · peak 9Mar 2018 — avg 3 · peak 10Jul 2018 — avg 2 · peak 8Nov 2018 — avg 3 · peak 9Mar 2019 — avg 3 · peak 7Jul 2019 — avg 2 · peak 9Nov 2019 — avg 3 · peak 10Mar 2020 — avg 3 · peak 9Jul 2020 — avg 2 · peak 10Nov 2020 — avg 3 · peak 7Mar 2021 — avg 4 · peak 11Jul 2021 — avg 2 · peak 8Nov 2021 — avg 2 · peak 6Mar 2022 — avg 3 · peak 11Jul 2022 — avg 2 · peak 8Nov 2022 — avg 3 · peak 8Mar 2023 — avg 2 · peak 6Jul 2023 — avg 2 · peak 6Jan 2024 — avg 3 · peak 8Jun 2024 — avg 2 · peak 5Nov 2024 — avg 3 · peak 8Feb 2026 — avg 2 · peak 5
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$11.99$0.492015-01-012024-03-212015-01-01 — best price $0.992015-02-09 — best price $11.992015-04-20 — best price $11.992015-06-15 — best price $0.492015-08-17 — best price $2.392015-10-19 — best price $2.392015-12-01 — best price $4.992016-01-11 — best price $3.592016-03-14 — best price $3.592016-05-16 — best price $3.592016-06-23 — best price $1.492016-11-19 — best price $4.992016-12-22 — best price $1.492017-07-05 — best price $4.992017-11-22 — best price $1.492018-01-04 — best price $4.992018-11-21 — best price $1.492019-01-03 — best price $4.992019-02-19 — best price $1.242019-07-09 — best price $4.992019-11-26 — best price $1.492020-01-02 — best price $4.992020-05-21 — best price $1.492020-07-09 — best price $4.992020-11-25 — best price $1.492021-01-05 — best price $4.992021-06-24 — best price $1.492021-11-01 — best price $4.992022-06-24 — best price $1.492022-11-29 — best price $4.992023-03-16 — best price $1.492023-07-31 — best price $4.992024-03-21 — best price $4.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Player tags

RPGCRPGIndieFantasyIsometricOld SchoolTurn-BasedSingleplayerParty-Based RPG

Census log

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

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