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Deathtrap Dungeon

· Square Enix · 2013-10-03

SteamGOG

ActionAdventure

Franchise: Fighting Fantasy · Modes: Single player

Releases: Mar 19, 1998 (PlayStation), Jul 31, 1998 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Built by a mad baron to bring notoriety to his town, only the brave or foolish would dare to enter Deathtrap Dungeon. Fabulous riches await the victor. Many adventurers have tried - none have come out alive… As Red Lotus, the alluring assassin, or Chaindog, the savage warrior, you must battle your way to the heart of the dungeon and slay...

1
playing now
51%
positive of 213 reviews
Mixed
steam rating
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
53/100
IGDB user rating (11 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$6.99
steam price (US)

1 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 12:00 UTC (census sample)

Ian Livingstone's Deathtrap Dungeon is an action-adventure video game developed by Asylum Studios and published by Eidos Interactive for PlayStation and Microsoft Windows in 1998. It is based on the adventure gamebook Deathtrap Dungeon written by Ian Livingstone, and published by Puffin Books in 1984. Due to its employing a similar 3D game engine, it was often compared to the Tomb Raider series, which was also published by Eidos.

Health check

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  • · Top 58% of 10,936 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 8.5k–17k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 213 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

GOG$0.99-86%
lowest across shops (ITAD)$0.99-86%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $0.78 at GreenManGaming (2021-11-22)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $6.99 · on sale 33 of 60 observed days · $0.21 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Players online

102026-08-12 00:00 — 1 players2026-08-12 16:00 — 1 players2026-08-13 07:00 — 1 players2026-08-13 23:00 — 0 players2026-08-14 15:00 — 0 players2026-08-15 07:00 — 1 players2026-08-15 23:00 — 0 players2026-08-16 15:00 — 0 players2026-08-17 07:00 — 0 players2026-08-17 23:00 — 0 players2026-08-18 14:00 — 1 players2026-08-19 06:00 — 0 players2026-08-19 22:00 — 1 players2026-08-20 14:00 — 0 players2026-08-21 05:00 — 0 players2026-08-21 21:00 — 0 players2026-08-22 13:00 — 1 players2026-08-23 05:00 — 0 players2026-08-23 21:00 — 0 players2026-08-24 12:00 — 0 players2026-08-25 04:00 — 0 players2026-08-25 20:00 — 0 players2026-08-26 13:00 — 0 players2026-08-27 05:00 — 0 players2026-08-27 21:00 — 0 players2026-08-28 13:00 — 0 players2026-08-29 06:00 — 0 players2026-08-29 22:00 — 0 players2026-08-30 12:00 — 1 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$6.99$0.782015-01-012026-08-302015-01-01 — best price $1.492015-05-08 — best price $1.742015-10-13 — best price $5.992016-03-18 — best price $2.392016-08-15 — best price $6.992016-12-12 — best price $5.992017-05-18 — best price $1.742017-11-21 — best price $1.492018-02-19 — best price $6.992018-07-23 — best price $6.992018-11-28 — best price $5.992019-03-04 — best price $1.392019-06-07 — best price $0.982019-11-01 — best price $6.992020-01-23 — best price $0.972020-05-07 — best price $1.392020-07-16 — best price $1.192020-11-25 — best price $0.832021-01-21 — best price $0.832021-04-05 — best price $6.992021-07-28 — best price $0.972021-11-22 — best price $0.782022-03-22 — best price $0.972022-06-30 — best price $0.972022-09-07 — best price $0.972022-10-03 — best price $0.982022-11-30 — best price $6.992023-05-10 — best price $0.972023-10-18 — best price $6.992024-03-14 — best price $0.972024-07-14 — best price $6.992024-11-02 — best price $6.992025-02-06 — best price $0.982025-06-18 — best price $0.972025-09-12 — best price $0.972025-12-04 — best price $6.992026-03-19 — best price $6.992026-06-26 — best price $0.982026-08-30 — best price $0.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

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

Details

WindowsSingle-playerFamily Sharing

Player tags

Retro1990'sActionClassicFantasyAdventureDifficultThird PersonDungeon CrawlerFemale Protagonist

Census log

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

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