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Deathtrap cover art

Deathtrap

NeocoreGames · 2015-02-04

SteamGOG

ActionAdventureIndieRPGStrategy

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative

Releases: Sep 28, 2020 (PlayStation 4), Jan 03, 2017 (Xbox One), Feb 04, 2015 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Feb 04, 2015 (Mac)

Deathtrap is a Tower Defense game with strong action-RPG elements, a game of vicious tricks, killing machines, rotating blades and splattering blood.

3
playing now
84%
positive of 2.3k reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
70/100
critic score (2 outlets, IGDB)
71/100
IGDB user rating (9 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$19.99
steam price (US)

3 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 03:00 UTC (census sample)

Deathtrap is a tower defense/action RPG video game released in 2015 by NeocoreGames for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X. It shares the gothic fiction setting with NeocoreGames' The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing and features a lone protagonist who is sent to a border world in an alternate dimension ("Ink") to defend a series of ancient strongholds against a horde of monsters invading from the depths of that dimension and trying to break through to the physical world.

Health check

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 24% of 10,791 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 57k–136k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 2,274 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

GameBillet$1.55-92%
Fanatical$1.59-92%
GOG$1.69-90%
GOG$1.69-90%
lowest across shops (ITAD)$1.69-90%
Gamesplanet$1.78-91%
Humble Store$1.99-90%
WinGameStore$1.99-90%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $1.31 at GameBillet (2025-11-24) · bundled 2×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $19.99 · on sale 110 of 136 observed days · $0.24 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Players online

1612026-08-06 23:00 — 5 players2026-08-07 07:00 — 3 players2026-08-07 15:00 — 6 players2026-08-07 23:00 — 5 players2026-08-08 07:00 — 8 players2026-08-08 15:00 — 16 players2026-08-08 23:00 — 12 players2026-08-09 07:00 — 5 players2026-08-09 15:00 — 13 players2026-08-09 23:00 — 6 players2026-08-10 07:00 — 7 players2026-08-10 15:00 — 12 players2026-08-10 23:00 — 6 players2026-08-11 07:00 — 2 players2026-08-11 15:00 — 13 players2026-08-12 23:00 — 1 players2026-08-14 06:00 — 1 players2026-08-15 14:00 — 11 players2026-08-16 22:00 — 6 players2026-08-18 06:00 — 5 players2026-08-19 13:00 — 7 players2026-08-20 21:00 — 3 players2026-08-22 04:00 — 7 players2026-08-23 12:00 — 8 players2026-08-24 20:00 — 7 players2026-08-26 04:00 — 5 players2026-08-27 12:00 — 2 players2026-08-28 20:00 — 10 players2026-08-30 03:00 — 3 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$19.99$1.312015-01-012026-08-302015-01-01 — best price $19.992016-05-08 — best price $19.992016-08-25 — best price $6.792016-12-19 — best price $6.792017-05-25 — best price $19.992017-11-16 — best price $6.792018-07-12 — best price $5.002019-01-24 — best price $19.992019-11-01 — best price $19.992020-05-25 — best price $19.992020-08-04 — best price $16.882020-09-18 — best price $19.992020-11-03 — best price $19.992020-12-22 — best price $1.992021-02-18 — best price $3.002021-04-21 — best price $19.992021-06-21 — best price $3.792021-12-22 — best price $1.992022-06-08 — best price $14.692022-11-04 — best price $16.992023-02-02 — best price $16.882023-05-12 — best price $3.272023-08-22 — best price $16.992023-11-20 — best price $1.662024-02-06 — best price $16.992024-04-14 — best price $17.402024-06-28 — best price $2.002024-09-11 — best price $1.692024-12-12 — best price $1.692025-03-10 — best price $19.992025-06-13 — best price $2.002025-09-11 — best price $16.992025-12-18 — best price $1.342026-04-07 — best price $1.352026-06-17 — best price $1.692026-08-17 — best price $1.992026-08-30 — best price $1.55
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

47
achievements tracked
69.1%
earned "First steps"
4.8%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerMulti-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam Trading CardsSteam WorkshopSteam CloudSteam LeaderboardsIncludes level editorFamily Sharing

8 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Hungarian, Polish, Portuguese - Portugal

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)5,5811%47

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

Player tags

RPGBloodCo-opIndieActionFantasyStrategyIsometricAction RPGController

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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