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EMPTY SHELL: PROLOGUE cover art

EMPTY SHELL: PROLOGUE

CC ARTS · Hyperstrange · 2023-01-06

Steam

ActionAdventureIndieFree To Play

EMPTY SHELL: PROLOGUE will throw you in a dark industrial environment, a secret facility on a japanese island. Each volunteer has signed a contract for a "recovery operation" without being privy to too many details. A tense roguelite survival horror with a top down perspective.

EMPTY SHELL: PROLOGUE is an Action, Adventure, Indie and Free To Play game released in 2023, priced at free-to-play, with an estimated 200,000 .. 500,000 owners and a Very Positive review sentiment (94% of 1405 reviews).

0
playing now
94%
positive of 1.4k reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
Free
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 13:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 59 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~7/week).
  • · Review velocity up 37% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (472 reviews).
  • · Top 13% of 27,808 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-31

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
44544520232026Week of 2023-01-01: 445 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 27 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 117 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 64 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 40 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 47 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 52 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 53 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 55 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 44 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 35 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 159 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 65 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 35 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 5 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

202026-09-15 14:00 — 1 players2026-09-16 23:00 — 1 players2026-09-18 06:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 14:00 — 2 players2026-09-20 21:00 — 1 players2026-09-22 05:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 12:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 20:00 — 0 players2026-09-26 03:00 — 0 players2026-09-27 11:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 18:00 — 1 players2026-09-30 02:00 — 0 players2026-10-01 09:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 17:00 — 0 players2026-10-04 01:00 — 0 players2026-10-05 09:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 16:00 — 0 players2026-10-08 00:00 — 0 players2026-10-09 07:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 15:00 — 1 players2026-10-11 22:00 — 0 players2026-10-13 06:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 13:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Completion

26
achievements tracked
71%
earned "HERD"
6.7%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam CloudSteam LeaderboardsFamily Sharing

8 supported languages: English, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Russian, French

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)8714%26

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

Player tags

RetroActionHorrorSci-fiSurvivalTop-DownAdventureControllerOld SchoolRogue-like

Census log

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