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Day of the Shell cover art

Day of the Shell

Duper Games · Goblinz Publishing · 2025-07-29

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Strategy

Modes: Single player

Releases: Jul 29, 2025 (Nintendo Switch), Jul 29, 2025 (Mac), Jul 29, 2025 (PlayStation 4), Jul 29, 2025 (PlayStation 5), Jul 29, 2025 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Jul 29, 2025 (Xbox One)

Day of the Shell is a “one-click, one-turn” tactical rogue-lite. In a shattered and flooded world, travel from island to island with only hope and a revolver, challenging and appeasing the gods.

68%
positive of 425 reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
60/100
critic score (1 outlets, IGDB)
3.69★
PlayStation Store rating (362 ratings)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$14.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 5 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 76% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (194 reviews).
  • · Top 22% of 14,586 Strategy games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 8.5k–19k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 425 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

GOG$14.99
lowest across shops (ITAD)$14.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $6.14 at GamesPlanet US (2026-07-31) · bundled 2×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $14.99 · on sale 81 of 144 observed days · $8.85 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
14614620252026Week of 2025-07-29: 146 positiveWeek of 2025-07-29: 48 negativeWeek of 2025-08-05: 27 positiveWeek of 2025-08-05: 16 negativeWeek of 2025-08-12: 14 positiveWeek of 2025-08-12: 8 negativeWeek of 2025-08-19: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-08-19: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-08-26: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-08-26: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-09-02: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-02: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-09-09: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-09: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-09-16: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-09-23: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-09-30: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-09-30: 7 negativeWeek of 2025-10-07: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-10-07: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-14: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-10-14: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-10-21: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-10-28: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-11-04: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-11-11: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-11-11: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-11-18: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-18: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-11-25: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-11-25: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-12-02: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-12-16: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-23: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-12-23: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-12-30: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-30: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-06: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-01-06: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-01-13: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-20: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-27: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-01-27: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-02-03: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-17: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-24: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-03-31: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-03-31: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-14: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-04-14: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-21: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-21: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-04-28: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-05-05: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-05: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-05-19: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-26: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-06-02: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-09: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-09: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-06-23: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-23: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-14: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-28: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-11: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-08-18: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-09-29: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$14.99$6.142025-07-292026-10-162025-07-29 — best price $13.492025-08-15 — best price $14.992025-09-24 — best price $11.992025-10-07 — best price $11.922025-10-28 — best price $9.742025-11-10 — best price $14.992025-11-25 — best price $9.742025-12-07 — best price $14.992026-01-07 — best price $14.992026-01-13 — best price $9.742026-02-10 — best price $14.992026-02-26 — best price $14.992026-03-20 — best price $8.992026-04-02 — best price $14.842026-04-29 — best price $7.402026-05-14 — best price $8.312026-05-21 — best price $7.492026-06-05 — best price $8.312026-06-13 — best price $14.992026-06-25 — best price $7.392026-07-13 — best price $14.992026-07-24 — best price $6.362026-08-06 — best price $7.492026-08-13 — best price $12.632026-08-24 — best price $7.492026-09-07 — best price $7.502026-09-14 — best price $14.992026-09-19 — best price $14.992026-09-24 — best price $7.492026-09-29 — best price $7.492026-10-04 — best price $7.492026-10-09 — best price $14.992026-10-14 — best price $14.992026-10-16 — best price $14.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

53
achievements tracked
97.9%
earned "Blessed"
24.7%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam CloudFamily Sharing1 DLC

9 supported languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2025-08-01 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)2211%53
PS5 (PlayStation)617%35
Xbox Series, Xbox One (Xbox)160%34
PS4 (PlayStation)250%35
Switch (Nintendo)10%0

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

Census log

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

Recent updates

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