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Eldritch cover art

Eldritch

Minor Key Games · 2013-10-21

Steam

ActionAdventureIndieRPG

Modes: Single player

Releases: Nov 12, 2013 (Mac), Nov 12, 2013 (Linux), Oct 21, 2013 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Eldritch is the original imsim roguelike: a first-person action game inspired by roguelikes, immersive sims, and H. P. Lovecraft.

1
playing now
88%
positive of 2.2k reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
81/100
critic score (3 outlets, IGDB)
67/100
IGDB user rating (24 ratings)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$14.99
steam price (US)

1 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 03:00 UTC (census sample)

Eldritch is a 2013 first-person shooter video game developed by David Pittman and published by American indie studio Minor Key Games. It was inspired by the writings of H. P. Lovecraft and gameplay elements of roguelike games. The expansion Eldritch: Mountains of Madness was released in December 2013. The game's source code was released in 2014, though the content itself remains proprietary.

Health check

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 24% of 11,000 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 89k–178k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 2,222 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

lowest across shops (ITAD)$13.39-11%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $1.00 at Fanatical (2017-08-25) · bundled 7×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $14.99 · on sale 6 of 18 observed days (census price snapshots)

Players online

702026-08-06 23:00 — 1 players2026-08-07 07:00 — 0 players2026-08-07 15:00 — 1 players2026-08-07 23:00 — 3 players2026-08-08 07:00 — 1 players2026-08-08 15:00 — 3 players2026-08-08 23:00 — 1 players2026-08-09 07:00 — 3 players2026-08-09 15:00 — 1 players2026-08-09 23:00 — 0 players2026-08-10 07:00 — 1 players2026-08-10 15:00 — 2 players2026-08-10 23:00 — 0 players2026-08-11 07:00 — 2 players2026-08-11 15:00 — 4 players2026-08-12 23:00 — 1 players2026-08-14 06:00 — 2 players2026-08-15 14:00 — 3 players2026-08-16 22:00 — 2 players2026-08-18 06:00 — 3 players2026-08-19 13:00 — 1 players2026-08-20 21:00 — 4 players2026-08-22 04:00 — 0 players2026-08-23 12:00 — 0 players2026-08-24 19:00 — 1 players2026-08-26 04:00 — 1 players2026-08-27 12:00 — 5 players2026-08-28 19:00 — 7 players2026-08-30 03:00 — 1 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$14.99$1.492015-01-012026-08-172015-01-01 — best price $4.942015-08-28 — best price $2.992016-02-05 — best price $1.492016-12-22 — best price $1.492017-09-11 — best price $14.992018-05-04 — best price $1.492019-01-10 — best price $1.492019-11-26 — best price $1.492020-05-28 — best price $14.992020-06-19 — best price $13.392020-07-11 — best price $13.392020-08-03 — best price $14.992020-08-26 — best price $13.392020-10-01 — best price $13.392020-10-24 — best price $14.992020-11-17 — best price $13.392020-12-12 — best price $14.992021-01-13 — best price $14.992021-02-05 — best price $13.392021-03-01 — best price $14.992021-03-23 — best price $13.392021-04-16 — best price $14.992021-05-13 — best price $13.392021-06-05 — best price $14.992021-10-11 — best price $13.392022-05-02 — best price $1.492022-10-25 — best price $1.492022-12-24 — best price $11.012023-07-13 — best price $14.992024-03-14 — best price $1.492024-11-04 — best price $14.992025-12-18 — best price $1.492026-08-17 — best price $13.39
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

2232026-05-30 — 15 pageviews2026-06-02 — 9 pageviews2026-06-05 — 14 pageviews2026-06-08 — 19 pageviews2026-06-11 — 13 pageviews2026-06-14 — 18 pageviews2026-06-17 — 4 pageviews2026-06-20 — 12 pageviews2026-06-23 — 12 pageviews2026-06-26 — 13 pageviews2026-06-29 — 13 pageviews2026-07-02 — 5 pageviews2026-07-05 — 15 pageviews2026-07-08 — 13 pageviews2026-07-11 — 9 pageviews2026-07-14 — 12 pageviews2026-07-17 — 10 pageviews2026-07-20 — 9 pageviews2026-07-23 — 22 pageviews2026-07-26 — 15 pageviews2026-07-29 — 12 pageviews2026-08-01 — 9 pageviews2026-08-04 — 13 pageviews2026-08-07 — 5 pageviews2026-08-10 — 13 pageviews2026-08-13 — 14 pageviews2026-08-16 — 11 pageviews2026-08-19 — 12 pageviews2026-08-22 — 11 pageviews2026-08-25 — 13 pageviews2026-08-27 — 8 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

15
achievements tracked
42.3%
earned "Gross, It's All Wet"
1.9%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsLinuxFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam Trading CardsSteam CloudSteam LeaderboardsFamily Sharing1 DLC

12 supported languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Danish, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Italian, Finnish, Ukrainian, Hungarian, Polish

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)6,5642%15

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

Player tags

FPSRPGIndieActionHorrorStealthAdventureRogue-likeRogue-liteFirst-Person

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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