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DarkEnd

Kodots Games · 2014-10-17

Steam

IndieRPG

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Bird view / Isometric

Releases: Oct 17, 2014 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Conquer the ever changing dungeons of DarkEnd and save the fall of humanity! Choose your heroes and venture into a world filled with numerous treasures, mysterious secrets and discover a haunting past in this 10+ hours of retro 2D Dungeon-Crawling!

DarkEnd is an Indie RPG game released in 2014, priced at $1.99, with an estimated 200,000 to 500,000 owners and a Mixed review sentiment (52% of 355 reviews).

0
playing now
52%
positive of 355 reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
50/100
IGDB user rating (0 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$1.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-15 05:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 1 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~0/week).
  • · Review velocity up 0% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (3 reviews).
  • · Top 19% of 50,052 Indie games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-01

Estimated sales: 8.9k–21k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 355 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.66 at GamersGate (2017-11-30) · bundled 9×via IsThereAnyDeal

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
3320142026Week of 2015-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

102026-09-15 15:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 23:00 — 0 players2026-09-18 06:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 14:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 21:00 — 0 players2026-09-22 05:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 13:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 20:00 — 0 players2026-09-26 04:00 — 0 players2026-09-27 11:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 19:00 — 0 players2026-09-30 02:00 — 0 players2026-10-01 10:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 17:00 — 0 players2026-10-04 01:00 — 1 players2026-10-05 09:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 16:00 — 0 players2026-10-08 00:00 — 0 players2026-10-09 07:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 15:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 23:00 — 0 players2026-10-13 06:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 14:00 — 0 players2026-10-15 05:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
3930Oct 2014Feb 2026Oct 2014 — avg 1 · peak 7Dec 2014 — avg 1 · peak 5Feb 2015 — avg 6 · peak 26Apr 2015 — avg 2 · peak 7Jun 2015 — avg 6 · peak 48Aug 2015 — avg 2 · peak 8Oct 2015 — avg 2 · peak 10Dec 2015 — avg 2 · peak 11Feb 2016 — avg 2 · peak 7Apr 2016 — avg 1 · peak 6Jun 2016 — avg 126 · peak 1,826Aug 2016 — avg 5 · peak 20Oct 2016 — avg 17 · peak 104Dec 2016 — avg 6 · peak 85Feb 2017 — avg 5 · peak 15Apr 2017 — avg 12 · peak 659Jun 2017 — avg 5 · peak 69Aug 2017 — avg 16 · peak 170Oct 2017 — avg 11 · peak 114Dec 2017 — avg 4 · peak 20Feb 2018 — avg 21 · peak 382Apr 2018 — avg 4 · peak 54Jun 2018 — avg 3 · peak 108Aug 2018 — avg 6 · peak 133Oct 2018 — avg 42 · peak 1,621Dec 2018 — avg 6 · peak 96Feb 2019 — avg 4 · peak 101Apr 2019 — avg 2 · peak 55Jun 2019 — avg 2 · peak 98Aug 2019 — avg 1 · peak 8Oct 2019 — avg 1 · peak 146Dec 2019 — avg 1 · peak 4Feb 2020 — avg 2 · peak 57Apr 2020 — avg 1 · peak 6Jun 2020 — avg 1 · peak 4Aug 2020 — avg 2 · peak 6Oct 2020 — avg 1 · peak 6Dec 2020 — avg 1 · peak 6Apr 2021 — avg 1 · peak 3Feb 2026 — avg 393 · peak 2,388
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$14.99$0.662015-01-012023-03-232015-01-01 — best price $7.492015-01-23 — best price $7.092015-03-23 — best price $14.992015-04-20 — best price $14.992015-06-11 — best price $5.092015-07-27 — best price $14.992015-09-21 — best price $1.492015-11-02 — best price $3.612015-11-25 — best price $3.612016-01-07 — best price $14.992016-02-09 — best price $2.242016-03-21 — best price $1.492016-04-04 — best price $14.992016-06-30 — best price $14.992016-08-08 — best price $14.992016-10-03 — best price $1.492016-11-21 — best price $1.502016-11-29 — best price $14.992016-12-22 — best price $1.492017-01-20 — best price $2.252017-02-13 — best price $14.992017-04-17 — best price $14.992017-06-05 — best price $14.992017-07-05 — best price $7.992017-08-07 — best price $1.502017-11-01 — best price $7.992017-11-29 — best price $14.992017-12-28 — best price $0.802018-01-29 — best price $7.992018-03-26 — best price $0.792018-05-16 — best price $14.992018-06-26 — best price $1.202018-07-27 — best price $1.992018-10-10 — best price $13.492018-12-21 — best price $0.992019-09-04 — best price $2.992019-11-25 — best price $1.992020-03-27 — best price $1.792022-11-22 — best price $0.992023-03-23 — best price $1.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

26
achievements tracked
6.8%
earned "Into Darkness"
5.3%
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)47132%26

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

Player tags

RPGIndieRPGMakerDungeon Crawler

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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