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Castle In The Darkness

Matt Kap · Nicalis, Inc. · 2015-02-05

Steam

ActionAdventureIndieRPG

Modes: Single player

Releases: Feb 05, 2015 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Castle In The Darkness is a fun and challenging shout out to the early days of video games! It's an action exploration platformer with some RPG elements, much like games from the Castlevania or Metroid series. It's super fast-paced, challenging, and full of secrets!

1
playing now
77%
positive of 1.3k reviews
Mostly Positive
steam rating
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
86/100
IGDB user rating (6 ratings)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$9.99
steam price (US)

1 players in-game as of 2026-08-29 18:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 31% of 10,791 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 32k–77k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 1,286 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.99 at Steam (2020-10-29)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $9.99 · on sale 4 of 8 observed days (census price snapshots)

Players online

202026-08-11 20:00 — 0 players2026-08-12 12:00 — 2 players2026-08-13 03:00 — 0 players2026-08-13 19:00 — 0 players2026-08-14 11:00 — 0 players2026-08-15 03:00 — 1 players2026-08-15 19:00 — 2 players2026-08-16 11:00 — 2 players2026-08-17 03:00 — 1 players2026-08-17 19:00 — 0 players2026-08-18 10:00 — 1 players2026-08-19 02:00 — 0 players2026-08-19 18:00 — 2 players2026-08-20 10:00 — 0 players2026-08-21 01:00 — 1 players2026-08-21 17:00 — 2 players2026-08-22 09:00 — 0 players2026-08-23 01:00 — 0 players2026-08-23 16:00 — 2 players2026-08-24 08:00 — 1 players2026-08-25 00:00 — 1 players2026-08-25 16:00 — 0 players2026-08-26 08:00 — 1 players2026-08-27 01:00 — 0 players2026-08-27 17:00 — 0 players2026-08-28 09:00 — 0 players2026-08-29 01:00 — 1 players2026-08-29 18:00 — 1 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$9.99$0.992015-02-052026-07-092015-02-05 — best price $4.972015-05-25 — best price $4.972015-06-22 — best price $5.992015-10-29 — best price $1.972015-11-27 — best price $4.192016-01-04 — best price $5.992016-04-07 — best price $9.992016-10-28 — best price $6.692016-11-29 — best price $9.992017-06-22 — best price $1.992017-11-01 — best price $9.992017-11-30 — best price $4.892018-01-04 — best price $9.992018-06-21 — best price $6.492018-11-01 — best price $9.992018-12-21 — best price $2.492019-02-11 — best price $9.992019-10-28 — best price $8.992019-12-03 — best price $9.992020-01-23 — best price $8.992020-07-09 — best price $9.992020-11-25 — best price $4.992021-01-05 — best price $9.992021-03-31 — best price $4.992021-07-08 — best price $9.992021-12-22 — best price $2.992022-02-03 — best price $9.992022-11-22 — best price $7.492023-01-05 — best price $9.992023-06-29 — best price $4.992023-11-28 — best price $9.992024-03-14 — best price $4.992024-07-11 — best price $9.992024-12-19 — best price $2.492025-03-20 — best price $9.992025-09-30 — best price $7.492026-01-05 — best price $9.992026-06-25 — best price $1.492026-07-09 — best price $9.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

11
achievements tracked
84.1%
earned "Lv.1 Slayer"
16.2%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam Trading CardsPartial Controller SupportFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)3,54311%11

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

Player tags

2DRPGIndieRetroActionAdventureDifficultPlatformerMetroidvaniaSingleplayer

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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