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Estencel

Rone Vine · 2023-01-19

Steam

ActionAdventureIndieMassively Multiplayer

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative, Split screen · Perspectives: Third person

Releases: Jan 19, 2023 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Atmospheric souls-like. Fight enemies and bosses and explore the gloomy city.

66%
positive of 172 reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
Verified
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$0.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 32 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~4/week).
  • · Review velocity down 9% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 32% of 26,478 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 3.4k–7.7k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 172 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.83 at Steam (2025-09-29)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $11.99 · on sale 2 of 3 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
171720232026Week of 2023-01-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 16 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-10-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$13.99$0.832023-01-192026-04-102023-01-19 — best price $12.592023-05-29 — best price $11.892023-06-30 — best price $11.192023-08-14 — best price $10.492023-09-20 — best price $9.792023-10-26 — best price $8.392023-11-21 — best price $9.592023-12-04 — best price $8.992023-12-22 — best price $7.792024-01-19 — best price $7.792024-02-26 — best price $5.992024-03-14 — best price $7.792024-04-03 — best price $7.792024-05-20 — best price $6.592024-06-27 — best price $5.392024-07-15 — best price $5.992024-08-21 — best price $4.792024-10-05 — best price $5.992024-11-20 — best price $4.792024-12-19 — best price $4.792025-01-09 — best price $4.192025-02-18 — best price $3.592025-03-06 — best price $8.992025-04-07 — best price $3.592025-06-26 — best price $1.192025-09-29 — best price $0.832025-12-18 — best price $0.832026-04-10 — best price $0.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

24
achievements tracked
78.9%
earned "First Steps"
5.5%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerMulti-playerCo-opOnline Co-opLAN Co-opSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam Trading CardsSteam CloudFamily Sharing1 DLC

13 supported languages: English, Russian, Turkish, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Portuguese - Brazil, Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Polish…

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2024-01-19 (Steam store data)

Player tags

PvEActionRhythmDifficultNonlinearAction RPGSouls-likeExplorationMultiplayerOnline Co-Op

Census log

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

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