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Beyond Shadowgate

Zojoi LLC. · 2024-09-19

Steam

Adventure

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: First person, Text

Releases: Sep 19, 2024 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

The original design of the never-before seen point and click adventure has been brought to life after 30+ years in the vault - Beyond Shadowgate! This new massive game (created by the designer of the original hit Shadowgate and a leading 8-bit adventure studio) is 5 TIMES BIGGER than NES Shadowgate!

96%
positive of 293 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Verified
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$17.99
steam price (US)
Beyond Shadowgate is a point-and-click adventure game developed by Zojoi and Grahfmetal Games and published in 2024. It is a sequel to the Nintendo Entertainment System version of Shadowgate, which itself is a port of the original 1987 Macventure game.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 9 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity up 29% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (74 reviews).
  • · Top 38% of 16,780 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 5.9k–13k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 293 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

lowest across shops (ITAD)$13.49-25%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $10.79 at Steam (2026-06-25)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $17.99 · on sale 21 of 36 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
717120242026Week of 2024-09-19: 71 positiveWeek of 2024-09-19: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-09-26: 23 positiveWeek of 2024-10-03: 13 positiveWeek of 2024-10-03: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-10-10: 7 positiveWeek of 2024-10-10: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-10-17: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-10-24: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-10-31: 6 positiveWeek of 2024-11-07: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-11-21: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-11-28: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-11-28: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-12-05: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-12-12: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-12-19: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-12-19: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-12-26: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-12-26: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-01-09: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-01-16: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-01-23: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-01-30: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-02-06: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-02-13: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-02-20: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-02-27: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-03-13: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-03-20: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-03-27: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-04-03: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-04-17: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-05: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-19: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-26: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-08-07: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-28: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-11: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-18: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-25: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-10-16: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-20: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-04: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-04: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-11: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-01-15: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-22: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-02-19: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-05: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-12: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-28: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-25: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-02: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-07-09: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-16: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$17.99$10.792024-09-192026-09-102024-09-19 — best price $16.192024-11-26 — best price $16.192024-12-04 — best price $14.392025-01-02 — best price $17.992025-01-09 — best price $14.392025-01-24 — best price $14.392025-02-28 — best price $14.392025-03-12 — best price $14.392025-03-20 — best price $17.992025-04-10 — best price $14.392025-05-08 — best price $14.392025-05-20 — best price $14.392025-06-10 — best price $13.492025-06-27 — best price $12.592025-08-07 — best price $13.492025-08-26 — best price $13.492025-09-18 — best price $13.492025-09-25 — best price $13.492025-10-06 — best price $17.992025-10-08 — best price $17.992025-11-05 — best price $17.992025-11-14 — best price $17.992025-12-11 — best price $13.492026-01-05 — best price $17.992026-01-23 — best price $13.492026-03-03 — best price $13.492026-04-03 — best price $17.992026-04-23 — best price $13.492026-05-27 — best price $13.492026-06-09 — best price $13.492026-06-25 — best price $10.792026-07-17 — best price $17.992026-08-01 — best price $17.992026-08-23 — best price $17.992026-09-10 — best price $13.49
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

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Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

40
achievements tracked
83.2%
earned "Hey, Listen!"
28%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam CloudFamily Sharing1 DLC

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2024-09-19 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)2239%40

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

Player tags

2DRetroFantasyMysteryAdventureStory RichExplorationFirst-PersonSingleplayerPoint & Click

Census log

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

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