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Desert Law cover art

Desert Law

Arise · Fulqrum Publishing · 2015-03-25

SteamGOGEpic Games Store

RPGStrategy

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Bird view / Isometric

Releases: Apr 29, 2005 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Desert Law is a new spin on the traditional real-time strategy that immerses players into a post-apocalyptic world where gasoline is the new world currency.

60%
positive of 84 reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
50/100
IGDB user rating (0 ratings)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$2.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 9 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity up 50% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 50% of 14,357 RPG games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 2.1k–5.0k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 84 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

GOG$0.59-80%
lowest across shops (ITAD)$2.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $0.39 at Savemi (2020-03-27) · bundled 4×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $4.99 · on sale 172 of 173 observed days · $0.20 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
3320152026Week of 2015-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2015-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2015-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2015-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$6.12$0.442015-03-252026-10-162015-03-25 — best price $3.992016-07-01 — best price $1.252017-01-27 — best price $2.992017-12-11 — best price $0.902018-07-11 — best price $2.992018-12-20 — best price $0.682019-04-27 — best price $2.992019-08-18 — best price $4.992019-12-20 — best price $0.992020-04-17 — best price $2.992020-08-07 — best price $0.992020-11-24 — best price $2.992021-02-19 — best price $2.992021-05-29 — best price $2.192021-09-01 — best price $0.592021-12-01 — best price $2.352022-03-11 — best price $0.992022-07-04 — best price $0.532022-11-10 — best price $0.502023-02-16 — best price $0.502023-07-03 — best price $0.992023-10-04 — best price $2.992023-12-28 — best price $0.512024-03-28 — best price $2.992024-07-13 — best price $2.992024-10-25 — best price $2.992025-01-13 — best price $2.352025-04-21 — best price $0.512025-07-14 — best price $2.302025-09-16 — best price $2.992025-11-21 — best price $0.442026-02-02 — best price $2.352026-05-08 — best price $0.992026-08-01 — best price $2.392026-10-05 — best price $0.592026-10-16 — best price $0.59
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam CloudFamily Sharing

3 supported languages: English, Russian, Czech

Player tags

RPGRTSStrategyPost-apocalyptic

Census log

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

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