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Evil is Back

616 GAMES · 2023-04-07

Steam

ActionAdventureIndie

Modes: Single player

Releases: Apr 07, 2023 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

"Evil is Back" is a retelling of the movies "Evil Dead 1 and 2"... With everything a low budget short film should have. For fans of 80's trash horror movies.

90%
positive of 177 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$1.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 21 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~3/week).
  • · Review velocity down 28% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 44% of 17,450 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 3.5k–8.0k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 177 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.79 at Steam (2023-07-13)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $1.99 · on sale 5 of 10 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
282820232026Week of 2023-04-01: 28 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-09-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$1.99$0.792023-04-072026-07-092023-04-07 — best price $1.992023-07-13 — best price $0.792023-07-14 — best price $0.792023-07-27 — best price $1.992023-11-21 — best price $0.792023-11-28 — best price $1.992023-12-22 — best price $0.992024-01-04 — best price $1.992024-03-14 — best price $0.992024-03-21 — best price $1.992024-06-27 — best price $0.992024-07-11 — best price $1.992024-10-28 — best price $0.992024-11-04 — best price $1.992024-11-27 — best price $1.192024-12-04 — best price $1.992024-12-19 — best price $0.992025-01-02 — best price $1.992025-03-13 — best price $1.392025-03-20 — best price $1.992025-04-03 — best price $1.392025-04-10 — best price $1.992025-06-26 — best price $0.992025-07-10 — best price $1.992025-09-29 — best price $0.992025-10-06 — best price $1.992025-10-27 — best price $0.992025-11-03 — best price $1.992025-12-18 — best price $1.392026-01-05 — best price $1.992026-03-19 — best price $0.992026-03-26 — best price $1.992026-06-25 — best price $0.992026-07-09 — best price $1.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

8
achievements tracked
67.5%
earned "Love"
51.8%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Player tags

3DFPSDark1980sRetroActionComedyHorrorShooterColorful

Census log

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

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