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Blackthorn Arena

PersonaeGame Studio · Light Up Games · 2020-05-19

Steam

IndieRPGSimulationStrategy

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Third person

Releases: Jan 17, 2020 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Blackthorn Arena is a strategy/management sim with a real-time/turn based combat system, set in a world of mythical monsters and classic fantasy races. Play as the master of Blackthorn Arena, train your slaves into gladiators, forge them into your champions, and send them to fight for your glory!

Blackthorn Arena is an Indie, RPG, Simulation, and Strategy game released in 2020, priced at $24.99, with an owner estimate of 200,000 .. 500,000 and a Mixed review sentiment (69% of 3778 reviews).

0
playing now
69%
positive of 3.8k reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
70/100
IGDB user rating (1 ratings)
6
Nexus mods (391 downloads)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$24.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-15 04:00 UTC (census sample)

Trailer

Blackthorn Arena trailer thumbnail

Blackthorn Arena: Reforged | Release Date Trailer | Coming October 23

≈102,339 YouTube results for this game's trailer search

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 8 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 72% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (600 reviews).
  • · Top 4% of 50,282 Indie games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-27

Estimated sales: 75k–170k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 3,772 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $4.99 at Steam (2024-08-21)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $24.99 · on sale 9 of 19 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
46446420202026Week of 2020-01-01: 108 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 28 negativeWeek of 2020-02-01: 432 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 94 negativeWeek of 2020-03-01: 123 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 47 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 464 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 136 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 207 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 73 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 125 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 54 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 145 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 75 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 83 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 39 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 26 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 29 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 28 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 17 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 50 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 41 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 75 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 45 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 41 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 29 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 18 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 18 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 18 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 16 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 32 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 60 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 135 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 89 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 35 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 27 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

402026-09-16 06:00 — 0 players2026-09-17 14:00 — 2 players2026-09-18 21:00 — 2 players2026-09-20 05:00 — 1 players2026-09-21 12:00 — 0 players2026-09-22 20:00 — 1 players2026-09-24 03:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 11:00 — 1 players2026-09-26 18:00 — 1 players2026-09-28 02:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 09:00 — 0 players2026-09-30 17:00 — 1 players2026-10-02 00:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 08:00 — 2 players2026-10-04 16:00 — 1 players2026-10-06 00:00 — 1 players2026-10-07 07:00 — 1 players2026-10-08 15:00 — 3 players2026-10-09 22:00 — 1 players2026-10-11 06:00 — 0 players2026-10-12 13:00 — 2 players2026-10-13 21:00 — 1 players2026-10-15 04:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$24.99$4.992020-01-182026-08-072020-01-18 — best price $17.992020-04-03 — best price $19.992020-07-18 — best price $17.992021-01-05 — best price $19.992021-06-25 — best price $9.992021-08-14 — best price $19.992021-11-24 — best price $9.992022-01-05 — best price $19.992022-04-22 — best price $7.992022-07-07 — best price $19.992022-11-25 — best price $7.992023-01-05 — best price $19.992023-06-21 — best price $6.992023-07-13 — best price $19.992023-09-04 — best price $19.992024-03-11 — best price $7.392024-07-18 — best price $15.992024-08-28 — best price $19.992024-10-22 — best price $19.992024-12-19 — best price $19.992025-01-03 — best price $19.992025-04-08 — best price $16.242025-07-10 — best price $24.992025-12-05 — best price $17.492026-01-05 — best price $24.992026-03-19 — best price $12.492026-05-03 — best price $24.992026-05-25 — best price $24.992026-06-25 — best price $9.992026-08-07 — best price $24.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

29
achievements tracked
90.8%
earned "Auspicious beginning"
20.2%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam CloudFamily Sharing3 DLC

9 supported languages: English, Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Traditional Chinese, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Russian

Post-launch support: 3 DLC released, first 2020-07-17, latest 2021-07-29 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)5922%29

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

Where its players are

Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.

Player tags

CRPGSandboxBuildingMedievalStrategyDifficultRealisticManagementSimulationExploration

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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