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Endroad · 2019-10-11

Steam

ActionAdventureIndie

Modes: Single player

Releases: Oct 11, 2019 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Lead the rebellion in an epic rogue-like adventure. Guide your jet-pack equipped post-apocalyptic volunteers through a labyrinthine underground complex by jumping, dodging, and battling against robot minions (and masters) to get to the surface — and bring life back to the scorched Earth.

85%
positive of 399 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
70/100
IGDB user rating (3 ratings)
bronze
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$9.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 12 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity up 71% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (60 reviews).
  • · Top 30% of 19,506 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 10.0k–24k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 399 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

Steam$1.99-80%
lowest across shops (ITAD)$1.99-80%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $0.77 at GameBillet (2026-02-04) · bundled 2×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $9.99 · on sale 64 of 106 observed days · $1.22 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
565620192026Week of 2019-10-01: 56 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2019-11-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 51 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$9.99$0.772019-10-112026-09-242019-10-11 — best price $9.992020-10-28 — best price $9.992021-01-16 — best price $8.392021-04-30 — best price $5.992021-06-09 — best price $9.992021-08-04 — best price $3.992021-09-27 — best price $3.992021-11-16 — best price $9.992021-12-18 — best price $9.992022-04-04 — best price $9.992022-07-18 — best price $9.992022-12-09 — best price $2.492023-03-15 — best price $2.492023-05-12 — best price $1.002023-07-14 — best price $9.992023-09-18 — best price $9.992023-11-21 — best price $3.192024-01-16 — best price $1.992024-03-21 — best price $2.002024-05-12 — best price $1.242024-07-08 — best price $8.192024-08-23 — best price $9.992024-10-10 — best price $1.322024-12-13 — best price $1.002025-03-13 — best price $0.992025-05-01 — best price $9.992025-07-13 — best price $8.272025-09-15 — best price $9.992025-11-10 — best price $0.782026-01-10 — best price $9.992026-02-17 — best price $0.772026-04-16 — best price $9.992026-06-01 — best price $8.592026-07-01 — best price $1.002026-09-22 — best price $1.992026-09-24 — best price $1.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

30
achievements tracked
78.4%
earned "GRADUATED!"
10.1%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam CloudFamily Sharing

7 supported languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Portuguese - Portugal, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)8862%30

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

Player tags

2.5DSci-fiFightingDifficultPlatformerRogue-likeRogue-liteSouls-likeExplorationPerma Death

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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