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BatMUD

Antti A. Luostarinen · Balanced Alternative Techniques ry · 2019-11-19

Steam

Massively MultiplayerRPG

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative, Massively Multiplayer Online (MMO) · Perspectives: Text

Releases: Nov 19, 2019 (Linux), Nov 19, 2019 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

BatMUD is a text-based medieval fantasy massively multiplayer online game with an extremely rich set of features - constantly in development since 1990.

85%
positive of 191 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
70/100
IGDB user rating (3 ratings)
Unsupported
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Unsupported
$4.99
steam price (US)
BatMUD is a medieval fantasy MUD, established in 1990. BatMUD is Finland-based and operated and owned by a non-profit organization, Balanced Alternative Techniques ry, officially registered 1994 in Helsinki, Finland.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 13 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity up 0% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 56% of 1,200 Massively Multiplayer games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 4.8k–11k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 191 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $3.14 at Steam (2022-12-22)via IsThereAnyDeal

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
212120192026Week of 2019-11-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-12-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-02-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-03-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-09-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$4.99$3.142019-11-192025-07-102019-11-19 — best price $4.992022-11-25 — best price $3.992022-11-29 — best price $4.992022-12-22 — best price $3.142023-01-05 — best price $4.992023-03-16 — best price $3.142023-03-23 — best price $4.992023-07-11 — best price $3.342023-07-13 — best price $4.992023-09-05 — best price $3.342023-09-19 — best price $4.992023-11-21 — best price $3.342023-11-28 — best price $4.992023-12-21 — best price $3.342024-01-04 — best price $4.992025-06-27 — best price $3.892025-07-10 — best price $4.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

1402026-06-21 — 7 pageviews2026-06-24 — 3 pageviews2026-06-27 — 1 pageviews2026-06-30 — 6 pageviews2026-07-03 — 3 pageviews2026-07-06 — 2 pageviews2026-07-09 — 4 pageviews2026-07-12 — 3 pageviews2026-07-15 — 12 pageviews2026-07-18 — 5 pageviews2026-07-21 — 6 pageviews2026-07-24 — 2 pageviews2026-07-27 — 10 pageviews2026-07-30 — 6 pageviews2026-08-02 — 9 pageviews2026-08-05 — 3 pageviews2026-08-08 — 4 pageviews2026-08-11 — 6 pageviews2026-08-14 — 4 pageviews2026-08-17 — 1 pageviews2026-08-20 — 13 pageviews2026-08-23 — 2 pageviews2026-08-26 — 6 pageviews2026-08-29 — 4 pageviews2026-09-01 — 9 pageviews2026-09-04 — 3 pageviews2026-09-07 — 11 pageviews2026-09-10 — 6 pageviews2026-09-13 — 10 pageviews2026-09-16 — 7 pageviews2026-09-18 — 3 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxMulti-playerMMOPvPOnline PvPCo-opOnline Co-opCross-Platform MultiplayerSteam CloudFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Player tags

RPGText-BasedMassively Multiplayer

Census log

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

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