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Evil Games · 2017-09-05

Steam

ActionAdventureIndie

Modes: Single player

Releases: Sep 05, 2017 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

You must save the world, whatever the cost...

37%
positive of 54 reviews
Mostly Negative
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$2.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 5 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 44% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 50% of 26,648 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 1.4k–3.2k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 54 total reviews — how this is computed.

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
5520172026Week of 2017-09-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2017-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFamily Sharing

Player tags

IndieActionShooterAdventureAtmospheric

Census log

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

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