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Dirge

NonNobis Games · 2024-02-01

Steam

IndieFree To Play

Modes: Multiplayer, Co-operative · Perspectives: First person, Third person

Releases: Oct 26, 2021 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Band together with up to 4 friends to confront paranormal monsters. One player can take on the monster role to hunt the investigators. To win the game, you must survive long enough to accomplish all of the tasks to defeat the monsters. Step out of the shadows, no more running & hiding. Fight back!

Dirge is an Indie, Free To Play game released in 2024, free-to-play, with an estimated 100,000 .. 200,000 owners and a Mixed review sentiment (54% of 361 reviews).

2
playing now
54%
positive of 361 reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
Free
steam price (US)

2 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 16:00 UTC (census sample)

The early 20th century was rife with death and darkness on a global scale. The destruction and chaos of the Great War was quickly followed by a deep depression, only to be capped off with the horrors of the 2nd World War. Darkness on a much smaller scale such as brutal murders and abuse can on their own result in hauntings of tormented spirits and dark entities, the horrors of the turn of the century have thus cast the recovering world into a black shadow. Across the world supernatural horrors that have long been suppressed since their days of myth and dominance are bleeding into the gaps lef(Storyline via IGDB)

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 2 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 45 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~6/week).
  • · Review velocity up 61% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 19% of 49,718 Indie games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-01

All-time low: $4.99 at Steam (2022-12-22)via IsThereAnyDeal

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
353520212026Week of 2021-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 28 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 35 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 34 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 21 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 8 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

1802026-09-15 01:00 — 2 players2026-09-16 09:00 — 4 players2026-09-17 17:00 — 1 players2026-09-19 00:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 08:00 — 0 players2026-09-21 16:00 — 10 players2026-09-22 23:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 07:00 — 2 players2026-09-25 14:00 — 8 players2026-09-26 22:00 — 4 players2026-09-28 05:00 — 3 players2026-09-29 13:00 — 2 players2026-09-30 20:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 04:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 11:00 — 2 players2026-10-04 19:00 — 3 players2026-10-06 03:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 10:00 — 5 players2026-10-08 18:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 01:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 09:00 — 0 players2026-10-12 17:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 00:00 — 2 players2026-10-14 16:00 — 2 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$29.99$0.002021-10-262024-02-012021-10-26 — best price $29.992021-11-05 — best price $14.992021-11-25 — best price $10.042021-12-01 — best price $14.992021-12-06 — best price $9.992021-12-22 — best price $6.692022-01-05 — best price $9.992022-01-27 — best price $6.692022-02-03 — best price $9.992022-02-28 — best price $8.992022-03-07 — best price $9.992022-04-04 — best price $8.992022-04-11 — best price $9.992022-05-09 — best price $8.992022-05-16 — best price $9.992022-06-23 — best price $6.692022-07-07 — best price $9.992022-08-22 — best price $8.992022-08-29 — best price $9.992022-10-25 — best price $6.692022-11-01 — best price $9.992022-12-22 — best price $4.992023-01-05 — best price $9.992023-02-06 — best price $8.992023-02-13 — best price $9.992023-03-16 — best price $4.992023-03-23 — best price $9.992023-04-03 — best price $8.992023-04-10 — best price $9.992023-08-14 — best price $7.492023-08-21 — best price $9.992023-10-26 — best price $4.992023-11-02 — best price $9.992023-11-21 — best price $4.992023-11-28 — best price $9.992023-12-21 — best price $4.992024-01-04 — best price $9.992024-02-01 — best price $0.00
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

60+
achievements tracked
33.2%
earned "Let The Games Begin"
2.2%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsMulti-playerCo-opOnline Co-opLAN Co-opSteam AchievementsPartial Controller SupportFamily Sharing3 DLC

15 supported languages: English, Spanish - Spain, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese, German, Korean, French, Turkish, Polish, Italian, Dutch…

Post-launch support: 3 DLC released, first 2021-08-11, latest 2024-02-01 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)1591%71

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

Player tags

PvEPvPDarkGoreNoirActionDemonsHorrorRealisticMultiplayer

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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