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Devil Engine cover art

Devil Engine

Protoculture Games · Poppy Works · 2019-02-20

Steam

Action

Modes: Single player

Releases: Feb 20, 2019 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Feb 21, 2019 (Nintendo Switch)

A last ditch effort to destroy what was once to be our savior. A final mission to eliminate a disastrous future. A single ship against Earth’s entire military. The Andraste is the only hope to defeat...the Devil Engine.

89%
positive of 144 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
70/100
IGDB user rating (0 ratings)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$19.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 9 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity up 0% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (32 reviews).
  • · Top 43% of 19,380 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 3.6k–8.6k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 144 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $12.99 at Steam (2024-11-29)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $19.99 · on sale 4 of 8 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
313120192026Week of 2019-02-01: 31 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-03-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-04-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$19.99$12.992019-02-212026-07-092019-02-21 — best price $17.992019-06-26 — best price $14.992019-09-19 — best price $13.392021-06-24 — best price $14.992022-06-23 — best price $14.592022-11-22 — best price $17.992022-12-22 — best price $14.992023-03-16 — best price $16.992023-06-29 — best price $17.992023-09-26 — best price $16.992023-12-21 — best price $15.992024-06-27 — best price $15.992024-11-29 — best price $12.992024-12-19 — best price $12.992025-03-13 — best price $15.992025-06-26 — best price $12.992025-09-19 — best price $15.992025-10-06 — best price $19.992026-01-05 — best price $19.992026-06-15 — best price $19.992026-07-09 — best price $19.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

29
achievements tracked
94.7%
earned "Initilization Successful"
0.8%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam CloudStatsSteam LeaderboardsFamily Sharing2 DLC

5 supported languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese

Post-launch support: 2 DLC released, first 2019-03-04, latest 2023-11-09 (Steam store data)

Player tags

2DIndieRetroActionArcadeBullet HellShoot 'Em UpSide ScrollerPixel GraphicsGreat Soundtrack

Census log

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

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