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Desktop Survivors 98 cover art

Desktop Survivors 98

Brandon Hesslau · 2025-05-20

Steam

ActionCasualIndie

Modes: Single player

Releases: May 20, 2025 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Desktop Survivors 98 is a chaotic roguelite dungeon crawler that unfolds right on your Desktop. Your cursor becomes the hero as you explore new rooms, battle relentless waves of enemies, and collect powerful new weapons.

3
playing now
95%
positive of 1.4k reviews
Overwhelmingly Positive
steam rating
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$4.99
steam price (US)

3 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 07:00 UTC (census sample)

Desktop Survivors 98 is a 2025 2D action rogue-like video game developed and published by Brandon Hesslau set in the aesthetics of the late '90s Windows desktop. The game was published on May 20, 2025, as the first demo version was first available on December 14, 2024 and available on Windows and Steam Deck.

Health check

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 30% of 10,936 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 28k–63k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 1,410 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $2.99 at Steam (2025-12-18)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $4.99 · on sale 3 of 6 observed days (census price snapshots)

Players online

1212026-08-12 00:00 — 9 players2026-08-12 15:00 — 4 players2026-08-13 07:00 — 2 players2026-08-13 23:00 — 8 players2026-08-14 15:00 — 6 players2026-08-15 07:00 — 1 players2026-08-15 22:00 — 11 players2026-08-16 14:00 — 3 players2026-08-17 06:00 — 2 players2026-08-17 22:00 — 12 players2026-08-18 14:00 — 5 players2026-08-19 06:00 — 3 players2026-08-19 21:00 — 9 players2026-08-20 13:00 — 1 players2026-08-21 05:00 — 3 players2026-08-21 21:00 — 9 players2026-08-22 12:00 — 7 players2026-08-23 04:00 — 6 players2026-08-23 20:00 — 10 players2026-08-24 12:00 — 2 players2026-08-25 04:00 — 4 players2026-08-25 19:00 — 5 players2026-08-26 12:00 — 6 players2026-08-27 04:00 — 3 players2026-08-27 20:00 — 7 players2026-08-28 08:00 — 4 players2026-08-28 23:00 — 9 players2026-08-29 15:00 — 8 players2026-08-30 07:00 — 3 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$4.99$2.992025-05-202026-06-152025-05-20 — best price $4.992025-06-27 — best price $3.992025-07-10 — best price $4.992025-09-29 — best price $3.992025-10-06 — best price $4.992025-12-18 — best price $2.992026-01-05 — best price $4.992026-06-08 — best price $2.992026-06-15 — best price $4.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

1002026-05-30 — 2 pageviews2026-06-02 — 5 pageviews2026-06-05 — 0 pageviews2026-06-09 — 8 pageviews2026-06-12 — 3 pageviews2026-06-15 — 2 pageviews2026-06-18 — 1 pageviews2026-06-21 — 0 pageviews2026-06-24 — 4 pageviews2026-06-27 — 0 pageviews2026-06-30 — 2 pageviews2026-07-03 — 3 pageviews2026-07-07 — 0 pageviews2026-07-10 — 3 pageviews2026-07-13 — 1 pageviews2026-07-16 — 3 pageviews2026-07-19 — 4 pageviews2026-07-22 — 0 pageviews2026-07-25 — 2 pageviews2026-07-28 — 0 pageviews2026-07-31 — 1 pageviews2026-08-03 — 0 pageviews2026-08-06 — 3 pageviews2026-08-09 — 3 pageviews2026-08-12 — 3 pageviews2026-08-15 — 4 pageviews2026-08-18 — 5 pageviews2026-08-21 — 3 pageviews2026-08-24 — 1 pageviews2026-08-26 — 3 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

60+
achievements tracked
92.3%
earned "Achievements"
36.3%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportAdjustable Text SizeMouse Only OptionSteam CloudFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)1,77218%78

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

2DIndieRetro1990'sActionCasualCombatFantasyOld SchoolRogue-like

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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