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Dark Shadows - Army of Evil

Burian Media Enterprises · Volens Nolens Games · 2014-03-11

Steam

ActionIndieRPG

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: First person

Releases: Mar 11, 2014 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Dark Shadows - Army of Evil takes you back to September 1362. A horde of monsters has been ravaging the country like a plague of locusts for over a year. While you were away doing your knightly duties of catching a runaway horse, the monsters stormed the castle, injured the king, and kidnapped Katarina, the love of your life.

Dark Shadows - Army of Evil is an Action, Indie, and RPG game released in 2014 for $4.99, with an owner estimate of 200,000 .. 500,000 and a Mostly Negative sentiment (35% of 318 reviews).

0
playing now
35%
positive of 318 reviews
Mostly Negative
steam's rating (official)
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
30/100
IGDB user rating (1 ratings)
bronze
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unsupported
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Unsupported
$4.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 14:00 UTC (census sample)

An army of evil, named "Dark Shadows", have been ravaging the country like a plague of locusts for over a year and are frightening the people with their scary get-up. Most people still think they are monsters. But they are only in disguise. While you were away these monsters stormed the castle. A woman named Katerina has been kidnapped. It is not just any woman. You are in love with her. They’ve also taken all the gold. All the taxes. And weapons! You are the only one who can help Katarina. You must hurry and follow them before they do something to her.(Storyline via IGDB)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 9 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 68% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 25% of 27,649 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-01

Estimated sales: 8.0k–19k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 318 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.49 at Steam (2020-10-29) · bundled 12×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $4.99 · on sale 9 of 18 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
171720152026Week of 2015-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2015-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2016-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2016-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2016-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

102026-09-14 23:00 — 1 players2026-09-16 07:00 — 0 players2026-09-17 15:00 — 0 players2026-09-18 22:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 06:00 — 0 players2026-09-21 13:00 — 0 players2026-09-22 21:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 04:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 12:00 — 0 players2026-09-26 19:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 03:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 10:00 — 1 players2026-09-30 18:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 01:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 09:00 — 0 players2026-10-04 17:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 01:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 08:00 — 0 players2026-10-08 16:00 — 0 players2026-10-09 23:00 — 1 players2026-10-11 07:00 — 0 players2026-10-12 14:00 — 0 players2026-10-13 22:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 14:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
5050Mar 2014May 2025Mar 2014 — avg 1 · peak 8Jun 2014 — avg 0 · peak 2Sep 2014 — avg 0 · peak 1Dec 2014 — avg 0 · peak 2Mar 2015 — avg 0 · peak 1Jul 2015 — avg 0 · peak 2Oct 2015 — avg 0 · peak 2Jan 2016 — avg 0 · peak 2Apr 2016 — avg 0 · peak 1Jul 2016 — avg 24 · peak 260Oct 2016 — avg 2 · peak 33Jan 2017 — avg 1 · peak 6Apr 2017 — avg 6 · peak 394Jul 2017 — avg 6 · peak 297Oct 2017 — avg 2 · peak 91Jan 2018 — avg 0 · peak 9Apr 2018 — avg 0 · peak 23Jul 2018 — avg 0 · peak 4Oct 2018 — avg 1 · peak 48Jan 2019 — avg 0 · peak 5Apr 2019 — avg 0 · peak 3Jul 2019 — avg 0 · peak 2Dec 2020 — avg 9 · peak 401Mar 2021 — avg 14 · peak 427Jun 2021 — avg 9 · peak 303Sep 2021 — avg 3 · peak 46Dec 2021 — avg 8 · peak 239Mar 2022 — avg 11 · peak 132Jul 2022 — avg 8 · peak 143Dec 2022 — avg 45 · peak 1,309Mar 2023 — avg 7 · peak 112Jul 2023 — avg 37 · peak 1,079Nov 2024 — avg 62 · peak 966Feb 2025 — avg 37 · peak 483May 2025 — avg 3 · peak 195

▼ −4 avg players (−59.4%) vs prior month — May 2025

Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$9.99$0.492015-01-012026-08-052015-01-01 — best price $2.492015-02-13 — best price $9.992015-07-15 — best price $9.992015-12-16 — best price $9.992016-03-21 — best price $9.992016-07-18 — best price $0.992016-11-29 — best price $4.992017-02-20 — best price $4.992017-07-20 — best price $4.992017-12-04 — best price $4.992018-04-29 — best price $4.992018-10-04 — best price $4.992018-12-14 — best price $4.992019-03-04 — best price $0.992019-09-04 — best price $0.992019-11-26 — best price $0.992020-09-20 — best price $0.992020-11-25 — best price $0.492021-02-11 — best price $0.492021-06-24 — best price $0.492021-11-24 — best price $0.492022-01-27 — best price $0.492022-05-13 — best price $0.542022-08-19 — best price $0.542022-11-30 — best price $0.492023-02-28 — best price $0.492023-05-27 — best price $0.492023-09-16 — best price $0.492023-12-21 — best price $0.492024-03-14 — best price $0.492024-06-27 — best price $0.492024-11-05 — best price $0.492025-02-07 — best price $0.492025-05-07 — best price $0.492025-09-07 — best price $0.492025-12-05 — best price $0.492026-03-01 — best price $0.492026-06-25 — best price $0.742026-08-05 — best price $4.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam Trading CardsFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Player tags

FPSRPGGoreAnimeIndieActionCasualHorrorFantasyMedieval

Census log

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

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