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Daemonologie

Katanalevy · Oro Interactive · 2024-10-01

Steam

AdventureIndie

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: First person, Side view, Text

Releases: Oct 01, 2024 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

A short folk horror story about the Scottish witch trials. You play the role of a witch finder. Speak to the locals and sort their truths from their lies. On the last morning a witch must hang, best you know who by then.

89%
positive of 773 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
71/100
IGDB user rating (8 ratings)
1h
to beat · rushed 1h
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$1.49
steam price (US)

You play the role of a witch finder who has been summoned to the small Scottish village to uproot the witch that resides there. You must speak to the locals and sort their truths from their lies. If they are not willing to communicate then you have permission to employ further methods of persuasion.(Storyline via IGDB)

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 26 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~3/week).
  • · Review velocity down 19% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 15% of 29,452 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 15k–35k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 773 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.90 at Dreamgame (2025-06-02) · bundled 1×via IsThereAnyDeal

Review momentum

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Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerFamily Sharing1 DLC

1 supported languages: English

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2024-10-23 (Steam store data)

Player tags

FaithShortGothicHorrorMysteryDetectiveHand-drawnHistoricalDark FantasySingleplayer

Census log

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

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