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Darkestville Castle cover art

Darkestville Castle

Epic Llama Games · ESDigital Games · 2017-09-21

SteamPlayStation StoreEpic Games StoreMicrosoft Store

AdventureIndie

Modes: Single player

Releases: Aug 13, 2020 (PlayStation 4), Aug 13, 2020 (Nintendo Switch), Sep 21, 2017 (Linux), Aug 13, 2020 (Xbox One), Sep 21, 2017 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Sep 21, 2017 (Mac)

Darkestville Castle — a darkly comedic point-and-click adventure where you play as a sarcastic demon. Solve clever puzzles, manipulate idiots, and bring chaos back to Darkestville, because being evil is just more fun.

3
playing now
93%
positive of 717 reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
75/100
critic score (1 outlets, IGDB)
73/100
IGDB user rating (10 ratings)
8h
time to beat (IGDB)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$2.99
steam price (US)

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

Health check

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 35% of 11,312 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 18k–43k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 717 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

Steam$2.99-80%
lowest across shops (ITAD)$2.99-80%
Microsoft Store$14.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $1.35 at Noctre (2024-03-30)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $14.99 · on sale 32 of 56 observed days · $13.64 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Players online

902026-08-11 21:00 — 1 players2026-08-12 13:00 — 0 players2026-08-13 05:00 — 0 players2026-08-13 20:00 — 1 players2026-08-14 12:00 — 0 players2026-08-15 04:00 — 0 players2026-08-15 20:00 — 3 players2026-08-16 12:00 — 1 players2026-08-17 04:00 — 2 players2026-08-17 20:00 — 4 players2026-08-18 11:00 — 3 players2026-08-19 03:00 — 1 players2026-08-19 19:00 — 2 players2026-08-20 11:00 — 2 players2026-08-21 03:00 — 1 players2026-08-21 18:00 — 1 players2026-08-22 10:00 — 3 players2026-08-23 02:00 — 1 players2026-08-23 18:00 — 4 players2026-08-24 09:00 — 0 players2026-08-25 01:00 — 2 players2026-08-25 17:00 — 4 players2026-08-26 09:00 — 5 players2026-08-27 00:00 — 2 players2026-08-27 16:00 — 4 players2026-08-28 08:00 — 3 players2026-08-29 00:00 — 4 players2026-08-29 16:00 — 9 players2026-08-30 08:00 — 3 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$14.99$1.492017-09-222026-08-272017-09-22 — best price $14.992018-02-19 — best price $14.992019-01-03 — best price $14.992019-06-03 — best price $14.992019-12-03 — best price $14.992020-07-09 — best price $14.992020-11-28 — best price $3.742021-05-03 — best price $4.492021-10-28 — best price $2.992022-05-02 — best price $2.992022-11-22 — best price $2.992023-06-05 — best price $2.242023-07-06 — best price $13.742023-08-21 — best price $2.242023-09-25 — best price $14.992023-11-02 — best price $14.992023-12-14 — best price $1.492024-01-18 — best price $2.242024-03-21 — best price $14.992024-04-23 — best price $13.742024-05-22 — best price $14.992024-07-11 — best price $14.992024-09-20 — best price $14.992025-01-02 — best price $14.992025-03-20 — best price $14.992025-06-02 — best price $14.992025-07-10 — best price $14.992025-09-15 — best price $14.992026-01-05 — best price $14.992026-03-19 — best price $3.742026-05-14 — best price $3.602026-06-11 — best price $14.992026-07-13 — best price $12.422026-07-31 — best price $12.422026-08-27 — best price $14.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

44
achievements tracked
75.4%
earned "Sworn Enemy"
43%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam Trading CardsCaptions availableSteam CloudFamily Sharing

5 supported languages: English, Russian, Spanish - Spain, French, German

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)70225%44
PS4 (PlayStation)64472%39
Xbox One (Xbox)40558%38
Switch (Nintendo)30%0

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

Player tags

2DFunnyComedyDemonsPuzzleCartoonyAdventureHand-drawnStory RichAtmospheric

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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