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Death Crown

5WORD Team · 2019-08-23

SteamPlayStation StoreEpic Games StoreMicrosoft Store

IndieStrategy

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative

Releases: May 13, 2021 (Nintendo Switch), May 13, 2021 (Xbox One), May 13, 2021 (PlayStation 4), Aug 23, 2019 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Death Crown is a minimalist real time strategy game in a 1bit style, where you will be play Death herself, commanding her legions of death, and punishing humanity's Kingdom for its overconfidence.

0
playing now
90%
positive of 594 reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
85/100
IGDB user rating (5 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$2.59
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 11:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 33% of 18,216 Indie games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 15k–36k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 594 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

lowest across shops (ITAD)$2.59-80%
Microsoft Store$12.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $0.99 at Steam (2024-06-27) · bundled 1×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $12.99 · on sale 12 of 22 observed days · $12.00 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Players online

302026-08-12 02:00 — 2 players2026-08-12 18:00 — 1 players2026-08-13 10:00 — 0 players2026-08-14 02:00 — 1 players2026-08-14 18:00 — 1 players2026-08-15 10:00 — 3 players2026-08-16 02:00 — 1 players2026-08-16 17:00 — 2 players2026-08-17 09:00 — 1 players2026-08-18 01:00 — 1 players2026-08-18 17:00 — 0 players2026-08-19 09:00 — 0 players2026-08-20 00:00 — 1 players2026-08-20 16:00 — 1 players2026-08-21 08:00 — 2 players2026-08-22 00:00 — 1 players2026-08-22 15:00 — 2 players2026-08-23 07:00 — 2 players2026-08-23 23:00 — 1 players2026-08-24 15:00 — 1 players2026-08-25 07:00 — 1 players2026-08-25 23:00 — 0 players2026-08-26 15:00 — 0 players2026-08-27 07:00 — 0 players2026-08-27 20:00 — 2 players2026-08-28 12:00 — 0 players2026-08-29 04:00 — 1 players2026-08-29 19:00 — 0 players2026-08-30 11:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$12.99$0.992019-08-232026-08-272019-08-23 — best price $7.992019-12-19 — best price $5.992020-04-13 — best price $5.992020-06-26 — best price $4.992020-09-18 — best price $9.992020-11-02 — best price $9.992020-12-22 — best price $2.992021-02-11 — best price $2.992021-04-06 — best price $2.992021-06-11 — best price $2.492021-08-06 — best price $9.992021-10-11 — best price $9.992021-12-04 — best price $9.992022-02-03 — best price $9.992022-05-06 — best price $2.492022-08-19 — best price $1.992022-11-04 — best price $9.992023-01-05 — best price $9.992023-03-23 — best price $9.992023-06-12 — best price $9.992023-07-31 — best price $9.992023-10-17 — best price $1.992023-11-21 — best price $1.992023-12-13 — best price $1.992024-01-14 — best price $9.992024-03-04 — best price $9.992024-04-22 — best price $1.992024-06-03 — best price $1.992024-06-27 — best price $0.992024-10-21 — best price $4.992024-12-19 — best price $0.992025-03-13 — best price $2.492025-07-10 — best price $12.992025-10-06 — best price $12.992026-02-16 — best price $1.992026-06-01 — best price $2.592026-08-24 — best price $2.592026-08-27 — best price $12.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerMulti-playerPvPShared/Split Screen PvPCo-opShared/Split Screen Co-opShared/Split ScreenSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam Trading Cards3 DLC

14 supported languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Simplified Chinese, Russian, Japanese, Polish, Italian, Portuguese - Brazil, Spanish - Latin America, Portuguese - Portugal…

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)9433%22
Xbox One (Xbox)4013%20
PS4 (PlayStation)190%23
PS4 (PlayStation)130%23
Switch (Nintendo)20%0

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

Player tags

2DPvPWarCo-opFantasyWargameZombiesStrategyTacticalDifficult

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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