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Defend Your Crypt

Ratalaika Games S.L. · 2016-07-21

Steam

IndieStrategy

Modes: Single player

Releases: Jul 21, 2016 (Mac), Jul 21, 2016 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Jul 21, 2016 (Nintendo 3DS), Jul 21, 2016 (Wii U)

Defend Your Crypt is a strategy and puzzle game, in which we will have to avoid to lose our treasure by the tomb thieves. We, as the Pharaoh, can use different traps to defeat those damn ambitious humans who are profaning your tomb.

Defend Your Crypt is a $2.99 Indie and Strategy game released in 2016, estimated to have 20,000 to 50,000 owners and Very Positive sentiment across 52 reviews.

0
playing now
81%
positive of 52 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
50/100
IGDB user rating (0 ratings)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$2.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-15 01:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 7 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 30% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 49% of 50,052 Indie games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-02

Estimated sales: 1.3k–3.1k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 52 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.49 at Steam (2018-12-20) · bundled 2×via IsThereAnyDeal

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
5520162025Week of 2016-07-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2016-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2016-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

102026-09-16 02:00 — 0 players2026-09-17 10:00 — 1 players2026-09-18 17:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 01:00 — 0 players2026-09-21 08:00 — 0 players2026-09-22 16:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 23:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 07:00 — 0 players2026-09-26 14:00 — 0 players2026-09-27 22:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 06:00 — 0 players2026-09-30 13:00 — 0 players2026-10-01 21:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 04:00 — 0 players2026-10-04 12:00 — 0 players2026-10-05 20:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 03:00 — 0 players2026-10-08 11:00 — 0 players2026-10-09 18:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 02:00 — 0 players2026-10-12 10:00 — 0 players2026-10-13 17:00 — 0 players2026-10-15 01:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$2.99$0.492016-07-212021-08-062016-07-21 — best price $2.392016-10-28 — best price $2.242016-12-22 — best price $2.092017-04-03 — best price $2.392017-06-02 — best price $2.992017-07-05 — best price $2.992017-11-01 — best price $2.992017-11-28 — best price $2.992018-01-04 — best price $2.992018-01-25 — best price $2.992018-05-24 — best price $2.992018-07-05 — best price $2.992018-09-13 — best price $2.992019-01-03 — best price $2.992019-02-12 — best price $2.992019-06-03 — best price $2.992019-07-10 — best price $2.992019-08-22 — best price $2.992019-10-25 — best price $2.992019-11-01 — best price $2.992019-12-03 — best price $2.992019-12-18 — best price $2.992020-01-02 — best price $2.992020-01-27 — best price $2.992020-02-14 — best price $2.992020-04-24 — best price $2.992020-06-19 — best price $2.992020-07-09 — best price $2.992020-08-14 — best price $2.992020-10-09 — best price $2.992020-11-02 — best price $2.992020-12-01 — best price $2.992020-12-18 — best price $2.992021-01-05 — best price $2.992021-02-15 — best price $2.992021-04-09 — best price $2.992021-07-08 — best price $2.992021-08-06 — best price $2.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

16
achievements tracked
8%
earned "That's my gold!"
4.3%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam Trading CardsSteam CloudFamily Sharing1 DLC

8 supported languages: English, Spanish - Spain, German, Czech, Japanese, Russian, Ukrainian, Italian

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2016-07-21 (Steam store data)

Player tags

IndieStrategyPixel Graphics

Census log

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

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