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Dark Arcana: The Carnival cover art

Dark Arcana: The Carnival

Artifex Mundi · 2014-10-28

SteamPlayStation StoreMicrosoft Store

AdventureCasual

Modes: Single player

Releases: Dec 18, 2020 (Nintendo Switch), Oct 08, 2012 (Linux), Oct 08, 2012 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Jun 27, 2017 (PlayStation 4), Oct 08, 2012 (Mac), Nov 30, 2012 (iOS)

Find the missing woman lost in a mysterious Carnival of Horrors.

0
playing now
89%
positive of 764 reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
69/100
IGDB user rating (11 ratings)
2h
time to beat (IGDB)
$14.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 06:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 34% of 11,424 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 19k–46k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 764 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

Microsoft Store$6.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $1.40 at GamersGate (2015-01-09) · bundled 14×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $14.99 · on sale 10 of 19 observed days · $5.59 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Players online

302026-08-11 17:00 — 3 players2026-08-12 09:00 — 1 players2026-08-13 01:00 — 1 players2026-08-13 17:00 — 1 players2026-08-14 08:00 — 1 players2026-08-15 00:00 — 1 players2026-08-15 16:00 — 2 players2026-08-16 08:00 — 1 players2026-08-17 00:00 — 1 players2026-08-17 16:00 — 3 players2026-08-18 08:00 — 0 players2026-08-19 00:00 — 2 players2026-08-19 15:00 — 2 players2026-08-20 07:00 — 1 players2026-08-20 23:00 — 0 players2026-08-21 15:00 — 2 players2026-08-22 06:00 — 1 players2026-08-22 22:00 — 0 players2026-08-23 14:00 — 1 players2026-08-24 06:00 — 2 players2026-08-24 22:00 — 0 players2026-08-25 13:00 — 0 players2026-08-26 06:00 — 0 players2026-08-26 22:00 — 0 players2026-08-27 14:00 — 2 players2026-08-28 06:00 — 0 players2026-08-28 22:00 — 1 players2026-08-29 14:00 — 2 players2026-08-30 06:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$14.99$1.402015-01-012026-08-302015-01-01 — best price $2.492015-10-05 — best price $1.492016-02-05 — best price $3.992016-09-19 — best price $9.992017-01-10 — best price $9.992017-11-13 — best price $2.992018-04-13 — best price $9.992018-11-06 — best price $3.992019-07-01 — best price $5.002019-12-19 — best price $2.992020-05-28 — best price $9.992020-06-19 — best price $8.992020-07-18 — best price $8.992020-08-10 — best price $9.992020-09-05 — best price $8.992020-09-28 — best price $9.992020-10-20 — best price $8.992020-11-10 — best price $8.992020-12-05 — best price $9.992021-01-07 — best price $9.992021-03-04 — best price $8.992021-03-31 — best price $9.992021-04-23 — best price $8.992021-05-16 — best price $9.992021-06-07 — best price $8.992021-11-24 — best price $2.492022-03-01 — best price $8.992022-07-07 — best price $9.992023-02-21 — best price $6.812023-07-18 — best price $6.992023-12-22 — best price $2.442024-06-12 — best price $9.992025-01-02 — best price $14.992025-09-29 — best price $2.992026-06-25 — best price $2.992026-08-30 — best price $6.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

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10 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
PS4 (PlayStation)4,73273%23
Steam (Steam)3,55940%19
Xbox One (Xbox)1,61754%22
Switch (Nintendo)20%0

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

Player tags

2DIndieCasualHorrorPuzzleFantasyMysteryAdventureStory RichAtmospheric

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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