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Diabolical

Choice of Games · 2015-11-06

Steam

IndieRPG

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Text

Releases: Nov 06, 2015 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Nov 06, 2015 (Mac), Nov 06, 2015 (Linux)

As a criminal mastermind, choose a lair, rob a bank, hire a minion, and steal the world's largest ball of aluminum foil! Or, destroy the world. FINE.

76%
positive of 120 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
80/100
IGDB user rating (0 ratings)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$4.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 11 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity up 10% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (53 reviews).
  • · Top 49% of 26,262 Indie games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 3.0k–7.2k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 120 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $2.59 at Steam (2022-11-22)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $4.99 · on sale 4 of 8 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
464620152026Week of 2015-11-01: 46 positiveWeek of 2015-11-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2015-12-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2015-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2016-01-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2016-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2016-02-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2016-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2016-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2016-05-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2016-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2016-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2016-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2016-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$5.99$2.592015-11-062026-07-092015-11-06 — best price $3.992015-11-25 — best price $2.992016-01-04 — best price $3.992016-06-23 — best price $2.992016-11-29 — best price $3.992017-05-09 — best price $5.992017-10-26 — best price $3.892017-11-28 — best price $5.992018-02-15 — best price $3.892018-07-05 — best price $5.992018-11-21 — best price $3.892019-01-03 — best price $5.992019-06-26 — best price $3.892019-10-11 — best price $2.992019-12-03 — best price $3.992020-01-23 — best price $2.992020-07-09 — best price $3.992021-02-11 — best price $2.992021-07-08 — best price $3.992021-12-22 — best price $2.992022-07-07 — best price $3.992022-12-22 — best price $2.992023-03-16 — best price $2.992023-07-13 — best price $4.992023-12-21 — best price $2.992024-03-21 — best price $4.992024-11-27 — best price $2.992025-01-02 — best price $4.992025-06-26 — best price $2.992025-10-06 — best price $4.992026-03-19 — best price $2.992026-07-09 — best price $4.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

23
achievements tracked
88.4%
earned "What Sort of Name Is Professor Murder?"
31.6%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxSingle-playerSteam AchievementsCaptions availableSteam CloudFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Player tags

RPGIndieText-BasedChoices MatterInteractive FictionVillain ProtagonistChoose Your Own Adventure

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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