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Deadlock: Planetary Conquest cover art

Deadlock: Planetary Conquest

Accolade, Inc. · Atari · 2014-10-23

SteamGOG

Strategy

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

Releases: Jul 22, 1996 (Mac), Feb 18, 1998 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Colonize A Planet. Dominate A World.

54%
positive of 120 reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
30/100
IGDB user rating (2 ratings)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unsupported
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Unsupported
$6.99
steam price (US)
Deadlock: Planetary Conquest is a turn-based strategy computer game by Accolade. The game was officially released in 1996. The story revolves around eight races' struggle for control over the planet Gallius IV, which came to a deadlock.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 9 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 10% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 48% of 10,006 Strategy games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 3.0k–7.2k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 120 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

GOG$5.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $0.69 at WinGameStore (2015-09-04) · bundled 1×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $6.99 · on sale 28 of 59 observed days · $5.30 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
7720142026Week of 2014-10-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2014-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2014-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2014-12-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2015-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2015-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2015-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2015-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2015-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2016-01-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2016-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2017-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-09-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$6.99$0.692015-01-012026-09-242015-01-01 — best price $5.992015-07-13 — best price $6.992015-12-22 — best price $1.742016-05-03 — best price $6.992016-09-12 — best price $1.742016-11-30 — best price $6.992017-04-24 — best price $5.992017-09-05 — best price $6.992017-12-14 — best price $1.742018-03-26 — best price $6.992018-07-23 — best price $1.492018-11-13 — best price $6.992019-01-28 — best price $6.992019-05-09 — best price $6.992019-09-09 — best price $1.742019-11-26 — best price $1.742020-01-31 — best price $5.992020-05-04 — best price $6.992020-08-28 — best price $1.742020-11-27 — best price $1.492021-02-22 — best price $1.742021-05-28 — best price $6.992021-10-27 — best price $1.492022-01-06 — best price $6.992022-05-16 — best price $1.742023-03-06 — best price $0.972023-11-29 — best price $5.992024-04-04 — best price $5.992024-10-28 — best price $1.792025-04-03 — best price $5.992025-09-22 — best price $1.042025-12-18 — best price $1.042026-04-24 — best price $5.992026-09-10 — best price $5.992026-09-24 — best price $5.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

41102026-06-26 — 21 pageviews2026-06-29 — 17 pageviews2026-07-02 — 13 pageviews2026-07-05 — 21 pageviews2026-07-08 — 16 pageviews2026-07-11 — 21 pageviews2026-07-14 — 17 pageviews2026-07-17 — 17 pageviews2026-07-20 — 22 pageviews2026-07-23 — 14 pageviews2026-07-26 — 21 pageviews2026-07-29 — 10 pageviews2026-08-01 — 16 pageviews2026-08-04 — 22 pageviews2026-08-07 — 26 pageviews2026-08-10 — 36 pageviews2026-08-13 — 35 pageviews2026-08-16 — 21 pageviews2026-08-19 — 16 pageviews2026-08-22 — 20 pageviews2026-08-25 — 23 pageviews2026-08-28 — 26 pageviews2026-08-31 — 22 pageviews2026-09-03 — 22 pageviews2026-09-06 — 17 pageviews2026-09-09 — 27 pageviews2026-09-12 — 13 pageviews2026-09-15 — 25 pageviews2026-09-18 — 26 pageviews2026-09-21 — 17 pageviews2026-09-23 — 23 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Player tags

Sci-fiClassicStrategyTurn-Based

Census log

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

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