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Caput Mortum

WildArts Games · Black Lantern Collective · 2025-08-27

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Adventure

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: First person

Releases: Dec 22, 2025 (Nintendo Switch), Aug 27, 2025 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Dec 03, 2025 (PlayStation 5), Dec 03, 2025 (Xbox Series X|S)

Travel back to 16th-century France and delve into the mysterious depths of a seemingly abandoned alchemist's tower. Do you dare brave the horrors that beckon you below... deeper still?

Caput Mortum is a 2025 Adventure game priced at $11.99, with a Very Positive review sentiment (95% of 415 reviews).

95%
positive of 434 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
80/100
critic score (1 outlets, IGDB)
4.26★
PlayStation Store rating (23 ratings)
3h
time to beat (IGDB)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$11.99
steam price (US)

Travel back to 16th-century France and delve into the mysterious depths of a seemingly abandoned alchemist's tower. Do you dare brave the horrors that beckon you below... deeper still?(Storyline via IGDB)

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 26 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~3/week).
  • · Review velocity down 10% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (82 reviews).
  • · Top 21% of 28,763 Adventure games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-01

Estimated sales: 8.7k–20k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 434 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $7.19 at Steam (2026-09-07) · bundled 1×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $11.99 · on sale 7 of 15 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
787820252026Week of 2025-08-27: 78 positiveWeek of 2025-08-27: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-09-03: 20 positiveWeek of 2025-09-03: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-09-10: 16 positiveWeek of 2025-09-17: 13 positiveWeek of 2025-09-24: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-08: 11 positiveWeek of 2025-10-15: 12 positiveWeek of 2025-10-22: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-10-29: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-10-29: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-11-05: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-11-12: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-11-12: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-11-19: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-11-26: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-12-03: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-12-10: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-12-17: 9 positiveWeek of 2025-12-17: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-24: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-12-31: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-01-07: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-01-14: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-01-21: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-01-28: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-02-04: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-02-11: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-02-18: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-02-25: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-02-25: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-04: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-03-11: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-03-18: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-03-25: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-03-25: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-04-08: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-04-08: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-15: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-04-22: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-04-29: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-05-06: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-05-13: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-05-20: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-27: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-06-03: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-06-10: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-06-17: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-06-17: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-24: 9 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-08: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-07-15: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-07-22: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-07-29: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-08-05: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-08-12: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-08-19: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-26: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$11.99$7.792025-08-272026-08-082025-08-27 — best price $10.792025-09-03 — best price $11.992025-09-29 — best price $9.592025-10-06 — best price $11.992025-10-27 — best price $9.592025-11-03 — best price $11.992025-12-18 — best price $9.592026-01-05 — best price $11.992026-02-16 — best price $8.992026-02-23 — best price $11.992026-03-19 — best price $9.592026-03-26 — best price $11.992026-04-03 — best price $8.392026-04-09 — best price $11.992026-05-01 — best price $11.992026-06-11 — best price $7.792026-07-09 — best price $11.992026-07-25 — best price $7.792026-08-08 — best price $11.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

15
achievements tracked
91.5%
earned "Living Quarters"
47.6%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportCamera ComfortCustom Volume ControlsGamepad RecommendedKeyboard Only OptionPlayable without Timed InputStereo SoundSteam Cloud

11 supported languages: English, French, Portuguese - Brazil, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Polish, Portuguese - Portugal, Russian

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)21110%15
PS5 (PlayStation)1811%15
Xbox Series (Xbox)80%15

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

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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