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Einar

DreamPunks · 2017-07-20

Steam

ActionCasualIndieStrategyFree To Play

Modes: Single player

Releases: Jul 20, 2017 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

The player takes on the role of Einar, who is on a quest to kill the inhabitants of a Norse fishing village who are infected by a mysterious material. Use different weapons such as the bow, hammer and axe to clear the village of the monsters.

Einar is a free-to-play Action, Casual, Indie, and Strategy game released in 2017, with an estimated 200,000 .. 500,000 owners and a Mixed review sentiment (61% of 1425 reviews).

0
playing now
61%
positive of 1.4k reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
Free
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-15 05:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 19 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity up 36% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (410 reviews).
  • · Top 13% of 27,841 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-31

All-time low: $3.49 at Steam (2023-06-29)via IsThereAnyDeal

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
23323320172026Week of 2017-07-01: 233 positiveWeek of 2017-07-01: 177 negativeWeek of 2017-08-01: 182 positiveWeek of 2017-08-01: 108 negativeWeek of 2017-09-01: 81 positiveWeek of 2017-09-01: 52 negativeWeek of 2017-10-01: 36 positiveWeek of 2017-10-01: 21 negativeWeek of 2017-11-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2017-11-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2017-12-01: 42 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2018-01-01: 37 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 19 negativeWeek of 2018-02-01: 34 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2018-03-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2018-04-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2018-05-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2018-06-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2018-07-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2018-08-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2018-09-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2018-10-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2018-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2018-12-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2019-01-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-02-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2019-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-04-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-05-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2019-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-08-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-09-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2019-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-11-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2019-12-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2020-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 2 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

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Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerFull controller supportFamily Sharing

Player tags

RPGCo-opIndieActionCasualViolentMedievalStrategySurvivalAdventure

Census log

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

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