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Avernum: Escape From the Pit cover art

Avernum: Escape From the Pit

Spiderweb Software · 2012-04-11

SteamGOGEpic Games Store

IndieRPGStrategy

Modes: Single player

Releases: Apr 11, 2012 (Mac), Apr 03, 2012 (iOS), Apr 11, 2012 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Jul 26, 2013 (Android)

Avernum is a land underground, a subterranean nation full of rogues, misfits, and brigands, struggling for survival in the monster-infested darkness. Hunt for glory, treasure, and justice in the underworld. Fight for survival, freedom, and even vengeance in the epic indie cult-classic.

9
playing now
91%
positive of 1.3k reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
80/100
IGDB user rating (4 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$9.99
steam price (US)

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

Avernum: Escape from the Pit is a role-playing video game developed by Spiderweb Software. It is the first game in the remade Avernum First Trilogy and the second ground-up rewrite of Exile: Escape from the Pit, released in 1995. The game was re-released as a graphics and game engine update, and it addressed Avernum incompatibilities with newer versions of Mac OS X 10.7 Lion and newer.

Health check

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 22% of 18,215 Indie games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 53k–105k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 1,316 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

GOG$3.99-60%
lowest across shops (ITAD)$3.99-60%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $0.99 at Steam (2015-06-15) · bundled 3×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $9.99 · on sale 35 of 59 observed days · $3.00 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Players online

2062026-08-11 17:00 — 8 players2026-08-12 09:00 — 7 players2026-08-13 01:00 — 13 players2026-08-13 17:00 — 14 players2026-08-14 08:00 — 9 players2026-08-15 00:00 — 15 players2026-08-15 16:00 — 17 players2026-08-16 08:00 — 11 players2026-08-17 00:00 — 20 players2026-08-17 16:00 — 16 players2026-08-18 08:00 — 9 players2026-08-18 23:00 — 18 players2026-08-19 15:00 — 15 players2026-08-20 07:00 — 12 players2026-08-20 23:00 — 8 players2026-08-21 14:00 — 11 players2026-08-22 06:00 — 12 players2026-08-22 22:00 — 9 players2026-08-23 14:00 — 16 players2026-08-24 05:00 — 8 players2026-08-24 21:00 — 10 players2026-08-25 13:00 — 13 players2026-08-26 05:00 — 6 players2026-08-26 22:00 — 9 players2026-08-27 14:00 — 7 players2026-08-28 06:00 — 9 players2026-08-28 21:00 — 14 players2026-08-29 13:00 — 12 players2026-08-30 05:00 — 9 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$9.99$0.992015-01-012026-08-302015-01-01 — best price $1.992015-06-11 — best price $2.992015-10-26 — best price $1.992016-01-04 — best price $9.992016-06-08 — best price $2.992016-10-17 — best price $9.992017-01-30 — best price $9.992017-07-17 — best price $0.992017-12-16 — best price $7.502018-04-09 — best price $2.992018-09-13 — best price $7.792019-03-23 — best price $2.992019-09-11 — best price $2.492020-01-02 — best price $9.992020-05-21 — best price $2.992020-09-23 — best price $2.992021-01-25 — best price $9.992021-06-21 — best price $9.992021-11-03 — best price $9.992022-02-21 — best price $9.992022-06-23 — best price $3.992022-11-23 — best price $3.992023-02-13 — best price $2.992023-05-29 — best price $9.992023-10-02 — best price $9.992024-01-05 — best price $9.992024-04-04 — best price $9.992024-06-15 — best price $9.992024-09-18 — best price $9.992024-12-04 — best price $2.992025-03-13 — best price $2.992025-05-16 — best price $9.992025-08-13 — best price $3.992025-10-13 — best price $9.992026-01-06 — best price $3.992026-03-26 — best price $9.992026-06-08 — best price $3.992026-08-25 — best price $3.992026-08-30 — best price $3.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

2242026-05-31 — 8 pageviews2026-06-03 — 5 pageviews2026-06-06 — 8 pageviews2026-06-09 — 16 pageviews2026-06-12 — 10 pageviews2026-06-15 — 6 pageviews2026-06-18 — 6 pageviews2026-06-21 — 7 pageviews2026-06-24 — 18 pageviews2026-06-27 — 12 pageviews2026-06-30 — 17 pageviews2026-07-03 — 8 pageviews2026-07-06 — 12 pageviews2026-07-09 — 12 pageviews2026-07-12 — 12 pageviews2026-07-15 — 15 pageviews2026-07-18 — 12 pageviews2026-07-21 — 9 pageviews2026-07-24 — 14 pageviews2026-07-27 — 18 pageviews2026-07-30 — 12 pageviews2026-08-02 — 17 pageviews2026-08-05 — 8 pageviews2026-08-08 — 7 pageviews2026-08-11 — 5 pageviews2026-08-14 — 13 pageviews2026-08-17 — 5 pageviews2026-08-20 — 9 pageviews2026-08-23 — 11 pageviews2026-08-26 — 10 pageviews2026-08-27 — 7 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

35
achievements tracked
75%
earned "Reached Civilization"
13.7%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam CloudStatsFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)3,2132%35

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

Player tags

2DRPGCRPGIndieRemakeFantasyStrategyIsometricOld SchoolStory Rich

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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