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Dwerve cover art

Dwerve

Half Human Games · 2022-05-31

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ActionAdventureIndieRPGStrategy

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Bird view / Isometric

Releases: Mar 14, 2025 (Xbox Series X|S), Mar 14, 2025 (Xbox One), Jun 01, 2023 (Nintendo Switch), Aug 01, 2024 (PlayStation 5), May 31, 2022 (Linux), Jun 22, 2023 (iOS)

An epic action-adventure with tower defense combat! Dungeon crawl through a ruined kingdom, fending off hordes with turrets and traps! Punch them into pits! Pull them into spinblades! Zap and burn them!

Dwerve is an Action, Adventure, Indie, RPG game released in 2022, priced at $19.99, with an estimated 20,000 .. 50,000 owners and a Mostly Positive review sentiment (74% of 550 reviews).

0
playing now
74%
positive of 550 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
4.11★
PlayStation Store rating (9 ratings)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Verified
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$19.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 06:00 UTC (census sample)

In the massive hollow mountain of Mount Crowcrest, there once lived a great nation of dwarves. The dwarves discovered power stones while mining deep in the mountain. They used them to power machines and, eventually, entire cities. They lived in peace and prosperity for centuries. Over time they became infatuated with power stones and dug deeper to find more. One day they dug too deep and unleashed the Gloomdark Hordes, an army of trolls and monstrous creatures. Once the dwarves realized that trolls turned to stone in the sunlight, they fled far from the mountain and found refuge on the sunny (Storyline via IGDB)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 8 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 47% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (294 reviews).
  • · Top 20% of 27,649 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-31

Estimated sales: 11k–25k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 550 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

Microsoft Store$19.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $12.99 at Steam (2025-09-29)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $19.99 · on sale 9 of 26 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
20920920222026Week of 2022-05-01: 37 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 209 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 85 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

102026-09-15 07:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 15:00 — 0 players2026-09-17 22:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 06:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 13:00 — 0 players2026-09-21 21:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 05:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 12:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 20:00 — 0 players2026-09-27 03:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 11:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 18:00 — 0 players2026-10-01 02:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 09:00 — 1 players2026-10-03 17:00 — 0 players2026-10-05 01:00 — 1 players2026-10-06 08:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 16:00 — 1 players2026-10-08 23:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 07:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 15:00 — 1 players2026-10-12 22:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 06:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$100.00$12.992022-02-222026-10-092022-02-22 — best price $100.002022-06-06 — best price $19.992022-06-18 — best price $19.992022-08-27 — best price $19.992022-11-14 — best price $16.992022-12-01 — best price $19.992023-01-05 — best price $19.992023-01-23 — best price $19.992023-02-18 — best price $19.992023-04-15 — best price $19.992023-05-29 — best price $16.992023-06-29 — best price $15.992023-08-28 — best price $16.992023-10-23 — best price $16.992023-11-20 — best price $19.992023-12-02 — best price $19.992023-12-21 — best price $14.992024-02-15 — best price $19.992024-04-01 — best price $19.992024-08-05 — best price $19.992024-11-22 — best price $13.992024-12-13 — best price $13.992025-01-23 — best price $13.992025-03-06 — best price $19.992025-04-03 — best price $19.992025-10-06 — best price $19.992025-11-06 — best price $19.992026-01-01 — best price $19.992026-03-19 — best price $12.992026-07-09 — best price $19.992026-08-13 — best price $12.992026-09-18 — best price $19.992026-10-09 — best price $19.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

12
achievements tracked
67.4%
earned "Unkillable"
17.2%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam CloudFamily Sharing1 DLC

11 supported languages: English, Simplified Chinese, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Portuguese - Brazil, Polish, Russian, Traditional Chinese, Japanese

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2022-05-31 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)3741%12
Xbox Series, Xbox One (Xbox)90%12
Switch (Nintendo)70%0
PS5 (PlayStation)60%13
PS5 (PlayStation)40%13
PS5 (PlayStation)10%13
PS5 (PlayStation)10%13

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

Player tags

RPGCRPGActionStrategyTacticalAdventureAction RPGStory RichStrategy RPGTactical RPG

Census log

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

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