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Deadlock II: Shrine Wars cover art

Deadlock II: Shrine Wars

Cyberlore Studios, Inc. · Atari · 2014-10-23

SteamGOG

Strategy

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer · Perspectives: Bird view / Isometric

Releases: Feb 28, 1998 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Build your empire upon the bodies of others! Deadlock II: Shrine wars is an exciting game of strategy, resource management and military conquest. Take control of one of seven races as you search for the secret power an ancient civilization.

Deadlock II: Shrine Wars is a Strategy game released in 2014, priced at $1.04, with an estimated 20,000 to 50,000 owners and a Mostly Positive review sentiment (72% of 81 reviews).

3
playing now
72%
positive of 81 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
60/100
IGDB user rating (0 ratings)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$1.04
steam price (US)

3 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 08:00 UTC (census sample)

Deadlock II: Shrine Wars is a science fiction turn-based strategy video game developed by Cyberlore Studios and published by Accolade, released on February 23, 1998 as a sequel to Deadlock: Planetary Conquest. The game allows the player to play as the leader of an alien species who controls colonies on a planet's surface.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 3 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 11 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity up 0% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 45% of 14,082 Strategy games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-01

Estimated sales: 2.0k–4.9k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 81 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

GOG$0.89-85%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $0.69 at WinGameStore (2015-09-04) · bundled 2×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $6.99 · on sale 56 of 92 observed days · $0.20 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
3320142026Week of 2014-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2014-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2014-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2014-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2014-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2015-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

402026-09-15 09:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 17:00 — 3 players2026-09-18 01:00 — 3 players2026-09-19 08:00 — 1 players2026-09-20 16:00 — 0 players2026-09-22 00:00 — 1 players2026-09-23 07:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 15:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 22:00 — 0 players2026-09-27 06:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 13:00 — 2 players2026-09-29 21:00 — 0 players2026-10-01 04:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 12:00 — 2 players2026-10-03 20:00 — 0 players2026-10-05 04:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 11:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 19:00 — 1 players2026-10-09 02:00 — 4 players2026-10-10 10:00 — 2 players2026-10-11 17:00 — 2 players2026-10-13 01:00 — 3 players2026-10-14 08:00 — 3 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$6.99$0.832015-01-012026-10-142015-01-01 — best price $3.492015-07-13 — best price $6.992016-01-07 — best price $5.992016-05-12 — best price $6.992016-09-19 — best price $6.992016-12-05 — best price $6.992017-04-17 — best price $1.492017-08-07 — best price $5.992017-12-11 — best price $1.742018-03-19 — best price $1.742018-07-02 — best price $1.742018-10-30 — best price $1.742019-01-19 — best price $1.742019-05-24 — best price $1.742019-09-12 — best price $6.992019-12-07 — best price $6.992020-03-06 — best price $1.492020-06-02 — best price $1.742020-09-16 — best price $1.752020-12-16 — best price $1.492021-03-22 — best price $1.492021-07-23 — best price $6.992021-11-24 — best price $1.742022-02-05 — best price $6.992022-07-06 — best price $1.742023-07-13 — best price $6.992024-02-22 — best price $0.832024-09-06 — best price $6.992025-03-20 — best price $6.992025-09-11 — best price $5.992026-01-05 — best price $6.992026-06-04 — best price $0.892026-09-05 — best price $0.892026-09-25 — best price $0.892026-10-14 — best price $0.89
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

2302026-05-31 — 10 pageviews2026-06-04 — 15 pageviews2026-06-08 — 9 pageviews2026-06-12 — 5 pageviews2026-06-16 — 5 pageviews2026-06-20 — 10 pageviews2026-06-24 — 9 pageviews2026-06-28 — 8 pageviews2026-07-02 — 6 pageviews2026-07-06 — 5 pageviews2026-07-10 — 4 pageviews2026-07-14 — 8 pageviews2026-07-18 — 12 pageviews2026-07-22 — 8 pageviews2026-07-26 — 16 pageviews2026-07-30 — 8 pageviews2026-08-03 — 9 pageviews2026-08-07 — 14 pageviews2026-08-11 — 17 pageviews2026-08-15 — 10 pageviews2026-08-19 — 3 pageviews2026-08-23 — 9 pageviews2026-08-27 — 11 pageviews2026-08-31 — 10 pageviews2026-09-04 — 7 pageviews2026-09-08 — 10 pageviews2026-09-12 — 9 pageviews2026-09-16 — 7 pageviews2026-09-20 — 11 pageviews2026-09-24 — 8 pageviews2026-09-28 — 8 pageviews2026-10-02 — 17 pageviews2026-10-06 — 7 pageviews2026-10-10 — 19 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Player tags

RetroClassicStrategyTurn-Based

Census log

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

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