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Deathground

Jaw Drop Games · 2025-10-07

Steam

ActionAdventureIndieEarly Access

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative

Releases: Oct 07, 2025 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Feb 22, 2026 (Nintendo Switch)

A 1-4 player co-op horror game that throws you into a desperate fight for survival against deadly dinosaurs. Run, hide and work together to complete missions and uncover the secrets buried within the abandoned AEON research facility. Can you and your friends make it out alive?

63%
positive of 1.0k reviews
Mixed
steam rating
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$11.99
steam price (US)
Deathground is an upcoming survival horror video game by developer and publisher Jaw Drop Games. A Kickstarter campaign was launched in July 2020 to help fund the game, which is being developed for Windows. It received an early access release on Steam on 7 October 2025.

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 27 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~3/week).
  • · Review velocity down 7% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (527 reviews).
  • · Top 33% of 11,286 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 21k47k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 1,038 total reviews — how this is computed.

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
31131120252026Week of 2025-10-07: 311 positiveWeek of 2025-10-07: 216 negativeWeek of 2025-10-14: 45 positiveWeek of 2025-10-14: 25 negativeWeek of 2025-10-21: 30 positiveWeek of 2025-10-21: 18 negativeWeek of 2025-10-28: 15 positiveWeek of 2025-10-28: 8 negativeWeek of 2025-11-04: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-11-04: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-11-11: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-11-11: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-11-18: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-11-18: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-11-25: 14 positiveWeek of 2025-11-25: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-12-02: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-12-02: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-12-09: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-12-09: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-12-16: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-12-23: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-12-23: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-12-30: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-12-30: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-01-06: 8 positiveWeek of 2026-01-06: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-01-13: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-01-13: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-01-20: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-01-20: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-27: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-02-03: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-02-03: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-02-17: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-24: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-02-24: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-03-03: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-03-03: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-10: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-03-17: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-24: 7 positiveWeek of 2026-03-24: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-31: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-07: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-04-07: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-04-14: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-14: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-21: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-21: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-28: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-05-05: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-05-05: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-12: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-05-19: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-05-19: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-05-26: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-05-26: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-02: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-02: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-09: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-06-09: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-16: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-23: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-06-30: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-30: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-07: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-07-14: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-14: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-21: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-07-21: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-07-28: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-08-04: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-08-04: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-08-11: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-11: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-08-18: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-08-25: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-25: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-09-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

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Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerMulti-playerCo-opOnline Co-opCustom Volume ControlsStereo SoundPartial Controller SupportFamily Sharing

10 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese

Census log

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