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Earth Must Die

Size Five Games · No More Robots · 2026-01-27

Steam

AdventureRPG

Modes: Single player

Releases: Jan 27, 2026 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Sep 09, 2026 (PlayStation 5), Sep 09, 2026 (Nintendo Switch)

These moronic Terranoids think they can just roll in here and take over my beautiful Tyrythian kingdom? The kingdom that I built from the ground up with my bare hands, and only sort of inherited from my dear, sweet, extremely dead father? This is complete bullsh*t, and I'm going to make them dead.

86%
positive of 258 reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
70/100
critic score (1 outlets, IGDB)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$15.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 14 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity down 22% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (132 reviews).
  • · Top 47% of 13,097 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 5.2k–12k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 258 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $9.59 at Steam (2026-06-25) · bundled 1×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $15.99 · on sale 4 of 8 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
12512520262026Week of 2026-01-27: 125 positiveWeek of 2026-01-27: 7 negativeWeek of 2026-02-03: 19 positiveWeek of 2026-02-03: 9 negativeWeek of 2026-02-10: 10 positiveWeek of 2026-02-10: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-02-17: 11 positiveWeek of 2026-02-24: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-02-24: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-03-03: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-03-03: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-03-10: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-10: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-03-17: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-03-24: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-24: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-03-31: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-04-07: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-14: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-04-21: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-04-28: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-05: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-05-05: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-12: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-05-12: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-19: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-05-26: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-02: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-09: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-16: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-06-30: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-07-21: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-08-11: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-08-18: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$15.99$9.592026-01-272026-07-092026-01-27 — best price $11.992026-02-10 — best price $15.992026-03-19 — best price $11.992026-03-26 — best price $15.992026-05-05 — best price $10.392026-05-15 — best price $15.992026-06-25 — best price $9.592026-07-09 — best price $15.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

15
achievements tracked
76.3%
earned "Wistful Thinking"
16.6%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam CloudFamily Sharing

3 supported languages: French, German, Simplified Chinese

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)2305%15

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

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.