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FORCED: Slightly Better Edition

BetaDwarf · 2013-10-24

SteamPlayStation StoreMicrosoft Store

ActionAdventureIndieRPG

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative · Perspectives: Bird view / Isometric

Releases: Oct 24, 2013 (Linux), Oct 21, 2015 (Xbox One), 2016 (Wii U), Oct 20, 2015 (PlayStation 4), Oct 24, 2013 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Oct 24, 2013 (Mac)

FORCED is a challenging 1-4-player game with co-op at its heart! A mix of tactical arcade action, RPG elements and puzzles will forge you and your friends together. As slaves in the toughest gladiator school of them all, you will face a plethora of unique trials - designed to be your death!

FORCED: Slightly Better Edition is an Action, Adventure, Indie, RPG game released in 2013, priced at $14.99, with an owner estimate of 200,000 .. 500,000 and a review sentiment of Mostly Positive (74% of 2794 reviews).

0
playing now
74%
positive of 2.8k reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
79/100
critic score (4 outlets, IGDB)
85/100
IGDB user rating (12 ratings)
3.24★
PlayStation Store rating (306 ratings)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$14.99
steam price (US)

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

Forced is a single-player and co-op action role-playing game developed by BetaDwarf, released in October 2013 for Windows, OS X and Linux through the Steam platform as well as Wii U. It is about gladiators fighting for their freedom in a fantasy arena where they are assisted by a spirit-like character called Balfus. Gameplay consists of selecting a weapon class and abilities to combat the various enemies of each arena, while solving puzzles using the help of Balfus. BetaDwarf was formed by a small group of students in 2011, who began developing the game in an unused classroom in Aalborg University – Copenhagen, Denmark. They were removed months later and launched a successful Kickstarter campaign involving an Imgur picture which documented their progress. Forced received moderate to favorable reviews with most critics praising its competitive gameplay and puzzle-system. The game's weak plot, technical glitches and excess difficulty were the negative highlights. It won the Intel Level Up 2013 award and BetaDwarf received the Danish Developer Of The Year (2013) for it.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 9 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 31% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 9% of 27,808 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-30

Estimated sales: 112k–224k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 2,796 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

Microsoft Store$14.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $1.49 at Steam (2024-04-15) · bundled 4×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $14.99 · on sale 2 of 11 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
141420172026Week of 2017-11-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2017-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2017-12-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2018-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2018-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2018-05-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2018-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2018-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2018-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2018-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2019-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

602026-09-15 14:00 — 1 players2026-09-16 22:00 — 0 players2026-09-18 06:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 13:00 — 1 players2026-09-20 21:00 — 0 players2026-09-22 04:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 12:00 — 2 players2026-09-24 19:00 — 0 players2026-09-26 03:00 — 1 players2026-09-27 10:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 18:00 — 0 players2026-09-30 01:00 — 0 players2026-10-01 09:00 — 1 players2026-10-02 16:00 — 1 players2026-10-04 00:00 — 6 players2026-10-05 08:00 — 2 players2026-10-06 16:00 — 1 players2026-10-07 23:00 — 2 players2026-10-09 07:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 14:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 22:00 — 4 players2026-10-13 05:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 13:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
2021Sep 2013Apr 2025Sep 2013 — avg 16 · peak 55Jan 2014 — avg 64 · peak 260May 2014 — avg 19 · peak 78Sep 2014 — avg 17 · peak 50Jan 2015 — avg 193 · peak 1,557May 2015 — avg 22 · peak 80Sep 2015 — avg 16 · peak 60Jan 2016 — avg 40 · peak 181May 2016 — avg 18 · peak 71Sep 2016 — avg 13 · peak 50Jan 2017 — avg 19 · peak 68May 2017 — avg 16 · peak 67Sep 2017 — avg 16 · peak 75Jan 2018 — avg 11 · peak 50May 2018 — avg 9 · peak 33Sep 2018 — avg 6 · peak 28Jan 2019 — avg 10 · peak 50May 2019 — avg 28 · peak 839Sep 2019 — avg 4 · peak 18Jan 2020 — avg 6 · peak 30May 2020 — avg 6 · peak 25Sep 2020 — avg 4 · peak 20Jan 2021 — avg 4 · peak 21May 2021 — avg 3 · peak 20Sep 2021 — avg 2 · peak 10Jan 2022 — avg 3 · peak 21May 2022 — avg 2 · peak 9Sep 2022 — avg 2 · peak 14Jan 2023 — avg 3 · peak 17May 2023 — avg 2 · peak 20Nov 2023 — avg 2 · peak 12Mar 2024 — avg 2 · peak 9Apr 2025 — avg 2 · peak 12

No change (0) in avg players vs prior month — Apr 2025

Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$14.99$1.992015-01-012026-10-112015-01-01 — best price $5.092016-02-12 — best price $14.992016-11-29 — best price $14.992018-08-14 — best price $2.992019-05-27 — best price $2.992019-12-04 — best price $2.242020-04-28 — best price $14.992020-06-21 — best price $13.492020-08-01 — best price $14.992020-08-30 — best price $14.992020-10-06 — best price $14.992020-11-14 — best price $14.992020-12-18 — best price $14.992021-01-16 — best price $11.012021-02-16 — best price $13.492021-03-18 — best price $11.012021-04-23 — best price $14.992021-05-25 — best price $13.492021-07-16 — best price $11.012021-09-23 — best price $11.012021-11-12 — best price $13.492021-12-23 — best price $11.012022-02-16 — best price $13.492022-04-02 — best price $13.492022-05-06 — best price $13.492022-06-08 — best price $13.492022-07-31 — best price $13.492022-09-03 — best price $13.492022-10-16 — best price $11.012022-12-21 — best price $13.492023-03-02 — best price $13.492023-05-15 — best price $13.492024-03-21 — best price $14.992026-09-06 — best price $14.992026-10-11 — best price $14.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

1512026-06-01 — 10 pageviews2026-06-05 — 3 pageviews2026-06-09 — 11 pageviews2026-06-13 — 9 pageviews2026-06-17 — 7 pageviews2026-06-21 — 6 pageviews2026-06-25 — 3 pageviews2026-06-29 — 13 pageviews2026-07-03 — 3 pageviews2026-07-07 — 1 pageviews2026-07-11 — 4 pageviews2026-07-15 — 12 pageviews2026-07-19 — 10 pageviews2026-07-23 — 15 pageviews2026-07-27 — 7 pageviews2026-07-31 — 13 pageviews2026-08-04 — 4 pageviews2026-08-08 — 6 pageviews2026-08-12 — 1 pageviews2026-08-16 — 8 pageviews2026-08-20 — 6 pageviews2026-08-24 — 10 pageviews2026-08-28 — 6 pageviews2026-09-01 — 8 pageviews2026-09-05 — 3 pageviews2026-09-09 — 12 pageviews2026-09-13 — 10 pageviews2026-09-17 — 7 pageviews2026-09-21 — 3 pageviews2026-09-25 — 5 pageviews2026-09-29 — 7 pageviews2026-10-03 — 10 pageviews2026-10-07 — 5 pageviews2026-10-10 — 4 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

24
achievements tracked
54.5%
earned "Beat the Cow Level"
5.5%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxFull controller supportSingle-playerMulti-playerPvPOnline PvPShared/Split Screen PvPCo-opOnline Co-opShared/Split Screen Co-opShared/Split ScreenCross-Platform Multiplayer2 DLC

9 supported languages: English, German, Spanish - Spain, Portuguese - Portugal, Russian, Swedish, Italian, Danish, French

Post-launch support: 2 DLC released, first 2013-10-25, latest 2014-04-01 (Steam store data)

Where its players are

Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.

Player tags

PvERPGCo-opIndieActionPuzzleFantasyTop-DownDifficultLocal Co-Op

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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