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Elysium: Blood Games cover art

Elysium: Blood Games

SimProse Studios · Conglomerate 5 · 2016-01-05

Steam

CasualIndieSimulationSportsStrategy

Modes: Single player

Releases: Jan 05, 2016 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Enter a world of blood, influence and secrets in this easy to learn, yet deep strategy sim where you control a group of Gladiators, guiding them through combat and competition. Bribe, gamble and slash your way to an arena championship!

Elysium: Blood Games is a 2016 Casual, Indie, Simulation, and Sports game priced at $4.99, with an estimated 100,000 .. 200,000 owners and a Mixed review sentiment (62% of 208 reviews).

2
playing now
62%
positive of 208 reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
50/100
IGDB user rating (0 ratings)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unsupported
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Unsupported
$4.99
steam price (US)

2 players in-game as of 2026-10-15 08:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 2 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 5 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity up 0% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 21% of 29,402 Casual games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 5.2k–12k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 208 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.28 at Steam (2022-12-22) · bundled 6×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $4.99 · on sale 11 of 14 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
8820162026Week of 2016-01-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2016-01-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2016-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2016-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-03-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2016-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

902026-09-15 17:00 — 1 players2026-09-17 01:00 — 1 players2026-09-18 09:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 16:00 — 0 players2026-09-21 00:00 — 4 players2026-09-22 07:00 — 9 players2026-09-23 15:00 — 3 players2026-09-24 22:00 — 0 players2026-09-26 06:00 — 0 players2026-09-27 13:00 — 2 players2026-09-28 21:00 — 1 players2026-09-30 04:00 — 1 players2026-10-01 12:00 — 9 players2026-10-02 19:00 — 2 players2026-10-04 03:00 — 0 players2026-10-05 11:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 19:00 — 1 players2026-10-08 02:00 — 0 players2026-10-09 10:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 17:00 — 1 players2026-10-12 01:00 — 0 players2026-10-13 08:00 — 1 players2026-10-14 16:00 — 0 players2026-10-15 08:00 — 2 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
1050Jan 2016Aug 2026Jan 2016 — avg 2 · peak 11Apr 2016 — avg 1 · peak 25Jul 2016 — avg 0 · peak 3Oct 2016 — avg 2 · peak 47Jan 2017 — avg 0 · peak 3Apr 2017 — avg 6 · peak 134Jul 2017 — avg 33 · peak 637Oct 2017 — avg 30 · peak 542Jan 2018 — avg 2 · peak 100Apr 2018 — avg 0 · peak 3Jul 2018 — avg 0 · peak 2Oct 2018 — avg 0 · peak 1Jan 2019 — avg 0 · peak 2Apr 2019 — avg 0 · peak 1Jul 2019 — avg 0 · peak 8Oct 2020 — avg 0 · peak 2Jul 2021 — avg 1 · peak 5Oct 2021 — avg 1 · peak 6Jan 2022 — avg 1 · peak 5Apr 2022 — avg 6 · peak 351Jul 2022 — avg 3 · peak 32Oct 2022 — avg 15 · peak 568Jan 2023 — avg 63 · peak 662Apr 2023 — avg 29 · peak 1,117Jul 2023 — avg 105 · peak 1,125Nov 2023 — avg 9 · peak 413Feb 2024 — avg 6 · peak 39Aug 2024 — avg 7 · peak 228May 2025 — avg 7 · peak 92Jun 2026 — avg 15 · peak 415Aug 2026 — avg 2 · peak 15
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$9.99$0.282016-01-062026-07-272016-01-06 — best price $4.992016-05-09 — best price $1.992016-09-05 — best price $2.492016-12-22 — best price $1.492017-07-05 — best price $2.992017-11-28 — best price $1.992018-03-12 — best price $0.992018-09-03 — best price $1.992018-12-21 — best price $0.992019-11-01 — best price $1.992020-06-25 — best price $0.792020-12-14 — best price $1.992021-02-15 — best price $4.992021-05-03 — best price $0.992021-08-02 — best price $0.542021-11-01 — best price $0.992021-12-22 — best price $0.542022-03-07 — best price $0.992022-07-25 — best price $0.492022-10-17 — best price $0.992022-12-22 — best price $0.282023-03-06 — best price $0.992023-05-22 — best price $0.282023-07-31 — best price $0.992023-11-21 — best price $0.492024-01-04 — best price $0.992024-04-01 — best price $0.492024-07-11 — best price $0.992024-10-07 — best price $0.492024-12-04 — best price $0.992025-02-17 — best price $0.492025-04-07 — best price $0.992025-07-14 — best price $0.492025-10-06 — best price $0.992025-12-18 — best price $0.492026-03-26 — best price $0.992026-07-27 — best price $4.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam Trading CardsFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Player tags

IndieCasualSportsStrategyManagementSimulationText-BasedTurn-BasedTurn-Based TacticsTurn-Based Strategy

Census log

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

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