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Dark Scavenger cover art

Dark Scavenger

Psydra Games LLC · 2014-05-16

Steam

AdventureCasualIndieRPG

Modes: Single player

Releases: May 16, 2014 (Mac), May 16, 2014 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Dark Scavenger is a bizarre point-and-click RPG adventure with a focus on exploration, gaining loot, and meaningful choices. Filling the role of a powerful space traveler, you find yourself stranded on a mysterious alien planet. Will you save the world or just yourself?

0
playing now
86%
positive of 243 reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
70/100
critic score (1 outlets, IGDB)
80/100
IGDB user rating (3 ratings)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$4.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 09:00 UTC (census sample)

Dark Scavenger is a point-and-click adventure role-playing game video game published and developed by Canadian indie studio Psydra Games. It was released for PC and Steam on July 12, 2012, and May 16, 2014, respectfully.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 4 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 50% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 52% of 11,362 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 6.1k–15k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 243 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.49 at Steam (2018-02-26) · bundled 7×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $3.89 · on sale 1 of 2 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
9920142026Week of 2014-05-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2014-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2014-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2014-08-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2014-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2014-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2014-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2014-10-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2014-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2014-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2014-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2015-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2015-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2015-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-05-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2015-06-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2015-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2015-08-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2015-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2015-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-12-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2016-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2016-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2016-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2017-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2017-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

102026-08-11 20:00 — 0 players2026-08-12 12:00 — 0 players2026-08-13 04:00 — 0 players2026-08-13 19:00 — 0 players2026-08-14 11:00 — 0 players2026-08-15 03:00 — 0 players2026-08-15 19:00 — 0 players2026-08-16 11:00 — 0 players2026-08-17 03:00 — 0 players2026-08-17 19:00 — 0 players2026-08-18 10:00 — 0 players2026-08-19 02:00 — 0 players2026-08-19 18:00 — 0 players2026-08-20 09:00 — 0 players2026-08-21 01:00 — 1 players2026-08-21 17:00 — 0 players2026-08-22 09:00 — 1 players2026-08-23 00:00 — 1 players2026-08-23 16:00 — 0 players2026-08-24 08:00 — 0 players2026-08-25 00:00 — 0 players2026-08-25 16:00 — 1 players2026-08-26 08:00 — 0 players2026-08-27 00:00 — 0 players2026-08-27 16:00 — 0 players2026-08-28 08:00 — 0 players2026-08-29 00:00 — 0 players2026-08-29 16:00 — 0 players2026-08-30 09:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$4.99$0.492015-01-012026-07-282015-01-01 — best price $2.492015-02-12 — best price $2.492015-05-11 — best price $3.142015-08-17 — best price $4.992015-12-01 — best price $4.992016-04-01 — best price $0.992016-07-05 — best price $4.992016-08-11 — best price $4.992016-11-01 — best price $4.992017-01-23 — best price $4.992017-05-29 — best price $4.992017-10-26 — best price $0.992018-04-20 — best price $4.992018-11-21 — best price $1.242019-06-17 — best price $4.992020-03-26 — best price $4.492020-06-07 — best price $4.082020-06-30 — best price $4.082020-07-21 — best price $4.392020-08-13 — best price $4.992020-09-04 — best price $4.392020-09-27 — best price $4.992020-10-22 — best price $4.392020-11-15 — best price $4.992020-12-08 — best price $4.992021-01-02 — best price $4.142021-01-26 — best price $4.992021-02-21 — best price $4.142021-03-16 — best price $4.992021-04-08 — best price $4.142021-05-01 — best price $4.992021-05-23 — best price $4.142021-10-03 — best price $4.992021-12-22 — best price $0.492023-09-09 — best price $1.492026-07-28 — best price $1.09
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

502026-05-22 — 0 pageviews2026-05-25 — 2 pageviews2026-05-28 — 2 pageviews2026-05-31 — 0 pageviews2026-06-05 — 2 pageviews2026-06-08 — 1 pageviews2026-06-11 — 2 pageviews2026-06-14 — 3 pageviews2026-06-17 — 3 pageviews2026-06-20 — 1 pageviews2026-06-24 — 1 pageviews2026-06-27 — 2 pageviews2026-06-30 — 2 pageviews2026-07-03 — 2 pageviews2026-07-06 — 3 pageviews2026-07-09 — 1 pageviews2026-07-12 — 1 pageviews2026-07-15 — 1 pageviews2026-07-18 — 1 pageviews2026-07-21 — 4 pageviews2026-07-24 — 1 pageviews2026-07-27 — 0 pageviews2026-07-30 — 3 pageviews2026-08-02 — 1 pageviews2026-08-05 — 2 pageviews2026-08-08 — 0 pageviews2026-08-11 — 0 pageviews2026-08-14 — 1 pageviews2026-08-18 — 1 pageviews2026-08-19 — 5 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsmacOSSingle-playerSteam Trading CardsFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Player tags

RPGFunnyIndieCasualComedySci-fiCartoonyAdventureHand-drawnMouse only

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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