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Desktop Survivors 98

Brandon Hesslau · 2025-05-20

Steam

ActionCasualIndie

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Bird view / Isometric

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.

Desktop Survivors 98 is an Action, Casual, Indie game released in 2025, estimated to have 50,000 .. 100,000 owners, priced at $4.99, with an Overwhelmingly Positive review sentiment (95% of 1415 reviews).

11
playing now
95%
positive of 1.4k reviews
Overwhelmingly Positive
steam's rating (official)
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unsupported
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Unsupported
$4.99
steam price (US)

11 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 17:00 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

Quiet
  • · 11 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 22 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~3/week).
  • · Review velocity down 39% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (416 reviews).
  • · Top 13% of 27,649 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-31

Estimated sales: 28k–64k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 1,415 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 2 of 4 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
39639620252026Week of 2025-05-20: 396 positiveWeek of 2025-05-20: 20 negativeWeek of 2025-05-27: 124 positiveWeek of 2025-05-27: 8 negativeWeek of 2025-06-03: 44 positiveWeek of 2025-06-10: 51 positiveWeek of 2025-06-10: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-06-17: 29 positiveWeek of 2025-06-24: 52 positiveWeek of 2025-06-24: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 50 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-07-08: 32 positiveWeek of 2025-07-15: 28 positiveWeek of 2025-07-15: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-07-22: 19 positiveWeek of 2025-07-22: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-29: 20 positiveWeek of 2025-08-05: 16 positiveWeek of 2025-08-12: 12 positiveWeek of 2025-08-12: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-08-19: 9 positiveWeek of 2025-08-19: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-08-26: 10 positiveWeek of 2025-09-02: 9 positiveWeek of 2025-09-02: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-09-09: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-09-09: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-09-16: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-09-23: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-09-30: 16 positiveWeek of 2025-10-07: 14 positiveWeek of 2025-10-14: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-10-14: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-21: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-10-21: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-28: 9 positiveWeek of 2025-11-04: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-11-11: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-11-18: 20 positiveWeek of 2025-11-25: 73 positiveWeek of 2025-12-02: 9 positiveWeek of 2025-12-02: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-12-09: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-12-09: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-12-16: 11 positiveWeek of 2025-12-16: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-23: 14 positiveWeek of 2025-12-30: 13 positiveWeek of 2025-12-30: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-01-06: 17 positiveWeek of 2026-01-06: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-01-13: 12 positiveWeek of 2026-01-13: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-01-20: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-01-27: 8 positiveWeek of 2026-02-03: 8 positiveWeek of 2026-02-10: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-02-10: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-17: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-02-17: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-24: 10 positiveWeek of 2026-03-03: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-03: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-10: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-03-17: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-03-24: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-03-24: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-03-31: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-04-07: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-04-07: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-04-14: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-21: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-04-21: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-28: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-05-05: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-12: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-05-12: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-05-19: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-05-26: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-06-02: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-06-09: 9 positiveWeek of 2026-06-09: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-06-16: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-06-23: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-06-23: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-30: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-07-07: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-14: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-07-21: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-07-28: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-08-04: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-08-11: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-18: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-08-25: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-25: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

1222026-09-15 02:00 — 4 players2026-09-16 11:00 — 2 players2026-09-17 18:00 — 8 players2026-09-19 02:00 — 5 players2026-09-20 09:00 — 7 players2026-09-21 17:00 — 12 players2026-09-23 00:00 — 5 players2026-09-24 08:00 — 3 players2026-09-25 15:00 — 11 players2026-09-26 23:00 — 5 players2026-09-28 06:00 — 3 players2026-09-29 14:00 — 7 players2026-09-30 21:00 — 8 players2026-10-02 05:00 — 5 players2026-10-03 12:00 — 5 players2026-10-04 21:00 — 11 players2026-10-06 04:00 — 3 players2026-10-07 12:00 — 5 players2026-10-08 19:00 — 7 players2026-10-10 03:00 — 4 players2026-10-11 10:00 — 7 players2026-10-12 18:00 — 4 players2026-10-14 01:00 — 7 players2026-10-14 17:00 — 11 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
3095May 2025Aug 2026May 2025 — avg 309 · peak 551Jun 2025 — avg 129 · peak 308Jul 2025 — avg 78 · peak 191Aug 2025 — avg 28 · peak 62Sep 2025 — avg 18 · peak 38Oct 2025 — avg 21 · peak 51Nov 2025 — avg 13 · peak 29Dec 2025 — avg 37 · peak 95Jan 2026 — avg 27 · peak 65Feb 2026 — avg 14 · peak 29Mar 2026 — avg 11 · peak 21Apr 2026 — avg 9 · peak 23May 2026 — avg 7 · peak 19Jun 2026 — avg 14 · peak 35Jul 2026 — avg 7 · peak 17Aug 2026 — avg 5 · peak 15
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

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 pageviews2026-06-03 — 2 pageviews2026-06-08 — 4 pageviews2026-06-12 — 3 pageviews2026-06-16 — 4 pageviews2026-06-20 — 1 pageviews2026-06-24 — 4 pageviews2026-06-28 — 1 pageviews2026-07-02 — 0 pageviews2026-07-07 — 0 pageviews2026-07-11 — 2 pageviews2026-07-15 — 3 pageviews2026-07-19 — 4 pageviews2026-07-23 — 0 pageviews2026-07-27 — 0 pageviews2026-07-31 — 1 pageviews2026-08-04 — 2 pageviews2026-08-08 — 1 pageviews2026-08-12 — 3 pageviews2026-08-16 — 2 pageviews2026-08-20 — 5 pageviews2026-08-24 — 1 pageviews2026-08-28 — 5 pageviews2026-09-01 — 4 pageviews2026-09-05 — 2 pageviews2026-09-09 — 4 pageviews2026-09-13 — 1 pageviews2026-09-17 — 2 pageviews2026-09-21 — 2 pageviews2026-09-25 — 3 pageviews2026-09-29 — 6 pageviews2026-10-03 — 9 pageviews2026-10-07 — 4 pageviews2026-10-08 — 10 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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