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Desert Ashes cover art

Desert Ashes

Nine Tales Digital · 2014-11-10

Steam

IndieStrategy

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer

Releases: Nov 10, 2014 (Mac), TBD (PlayStation Vita), Nov 10, 2014 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Desert Ashes is a turn based strategy game with online multiplayer and single player campaigns, it also boasts an innovative menu system allowing you to play multiple games at once. The Day-Night system adds a dynamic twist to turn based battles that affect the battlefield.

53%
positive of 80 reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
50/100
IGDB user rating (1 ratings)
$4.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 6 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity up 20% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 41% of 44,816 Indie games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 2.0k–4.8k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 80 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.49 at Steam (2015-12-22) · bundled 4×via IsThereAnyDeal

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
5520142026Week of 2014-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2014-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2015-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2015-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2015-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2015-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-12-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2015-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2016-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$9.99$0.492015-01-012020-04-212015-01-01 — best price $2.992015-01-19 — best price $0.992015-01-29 — best price $4.992015-03-19 — best price $9.992015-03-30 — best price $4.992015-06-22 — best price $4.992015-11-25 — best price $0.992015-12-14 — best price $0.992015-12-22 — best price $0.492016-01-15 — best price $0.992016-02-05 — best price $0.492016-03-14 — best price $0.492016-05-16 — best price $0.492016-06-23 — best price $0.492016-07-26 — best price $0.992016-09-08 — best price $0.992016-10-28 — best price $0.492016-11-07 — best price $0.992016-11-23 — best price $0.992016-12-22 — best price $0.992017-01-12 — best price $0.992017-08-28 — best price $0.992020-04-07 — best price $4.492020-04-21 — best price $4.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsmacOSFull controller supportSingle-playerMulti-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam Trading CardsFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Player tags

IndieStrategyTurn-Based

Census log

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

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