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Gestalt: Steam & Cinder cover art

Gestalt: Steam & Cinder

Metamorphosis Games · Fireshine Games · 2024-07-16

SteamGOG

ActionAdventureIndieRPG

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Side view

Releases: Jul 16, 2024 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Inspired by 16 and 32-bit classics, Gestalt: Steam & Cinder fuses tight 2D platforming and exhilarating combat with an engrossing, twist-laden narrative in a stunningly handcrafted steampunk world.

Gestalt: Steam & Cinder is an Action, Adventure, Indie and RPG game released in 2024, priced at $19.99, with an estimated 50,000 .. 100,000 owners and a Very Positive review sentiment (80% of 2268 reviews).

9
playing now
80%
positive of 2.3k reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
73/100
critic score (3 outlets, IGDB)
77/100
IGDB user rating (7 ratings)
1
Nexus mods (1 downloads)
11h
time to beat (IGDB)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Verified
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$19.99
steam price (US)

9 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 17:00 UTC (census sample)

Gestalt: Steam and Cinder is a Metroidvania video game developed by Metamorphosis Games and published by Fireshine Games. Players fight robots in a steampunk city.

Health check

Healthy
  • · 9 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 246 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~31/week).
  • · Review velocity down 26% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 10% of 27,606 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-30

Estimated sales: 45k–102k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 2,268 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

GameBillet$3.85-81%
IndieGala$3.89-81%
Gamesplanet$4.59-77%
Humble Store$4.99-75%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $3.85 at GameBillet (2026-09-24) · bundled 6×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $19.99 · on sale 100 of 135 observed days · $0.04 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
43143120242026Week of 2024-07-01: 431 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 93 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 124 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 24 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 56 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 69 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 22 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 113 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 27 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 103 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 27 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 61 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 24 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 30 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 35 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 52 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 41 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 46 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 29 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 26 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 16 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 42 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 40 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 4 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

3432026-09-15 02:00 — 30 players2026-09-16 10:00 — 11 players2026-09-17 18:00 — 26 players2026-09-19 01:00 — 27 players2026-09-20 09:00 — 22 players2026-09-21 17:00 — 18 players2026-09-23 00:00 — 27 players2026-09-24 08:00 — 13 players2026-09-25 15:00 — 22 players2026-09-26 23:00 — 30 players2026-09-28 06:00 — 7 players2026-09-29 14:00 — 9 players2026-09-30 21:00 — 15 players2026-10-02 05:00 — 8 players2026-10-03 12:00 — 11 players2026-10-04 20:00 — 20 players2026-10-06 04:00 — 10 players2026-10-07 11:00 — 3 players2026-10-08 19:00 — 22 players2026-10-10 02:00 — 11 players2026-10-11 10:00 — 14 players2026-10-12 18:00 — 16 players2026-10-14 01:00 — 13 players2026-10-14 17:00 — 9 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
1246Jul 2024Aug 2026Jul 2024 — avg 124 · peak 365Aug 2024 — avg 35 · peak 113Sep 2024 — avg 21 · peak 69Oct 2024 — avg 33 · peak 152Nov 2024 — avg 27 · peak 91Dec 2024 — avg 37 · peak 86Jan 2025 — avg 22 · peak 72Feb 2025 — avg 11 · peak 29Mar 2025 — avg 10 · peak 40Apr 2025 — avg 14 · peak 35May 2025 — avg 24 · peak 72Jun 2025 — avg 15 · peak 41Jul 2025 — avg 13 · peak 39Aug 2025 — avg 8 · peak 22Sep 2025 — avg 12 · peak 37Oct 2025 — avg 13 · peak 42Nov 2025 — avg 10 · peak 29Dec 2025 — avg 13 · peak 33Jan 2026 — avg 9 · peak 27Feb 2026 — avg 6 · peak 18Mar 2026 — avg 15 · peak 40Apr 2026 — avg 23 · peak 63May 2026 — avg 9 · peak 23Jun 2026 — avg 9 · peak 34Jul 2026 — avg 14 · peak 42Aug 2026 — avg 7 · peak 17
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$19.99$3.852024-07-112026-10-122024-07-11 — best price $19.992024-07-25 — best price $17.982024-09-16 — best price $15.992024-10-08 — best price $17.982024-11-19 — best price $19.992024-11-27 — best price $8.412024-12-05 — best price $8.372024-12-21 — best price $8.322024-12-29 — best price $7.472025-01-06 — best price $17.792025-03-21 — best price $19.992025-04-03 — best price $9.992025-04-18 — best price $9.992025-04-30 — best price $7.192025-05-26 — best price $8.002025-06-05 — best price $19.992025-06-30 — best price $6.092025-07-25 — best price $6.642025-08-16 — best price $14.692025-09-01 — best price $7.992025-09-17 — best price $19.392025-10-08 — best price $7.902025-10-25 — best price $8.002025-11-18 — best price $19.992025-12-06 — best price $19.992025-12-19 — best price $6.092026-01-21 — best price $19.992026-02-05 — best price $16.572026-03-19 — best price $5.822026-04-06 — best price $16.572026-04-22 — best price $19.992026-05-12 — best price $16.572026-05-25 — best price $7.992026-06-23 — best price $8.002026-07-04 — best price $19.992026-08-07 — best price $17.702026-08-20 — best price $4.992026-09-25 — best price $3.852026-10-11 — best price $3.892026-10-12 — best price $4.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

2932026-05-31 — 8 pageviews2026-06-04 — 6 pageviews2026-06-08 — 11 pageviews2026-06-12 — 13 pageviews2026-06-16 — 17 pageviews2026-06-20 — 4 pageviews2026-06-24 — 12 pageviews2026-06-28 — 29 pageviews2026-07-02 — 16 pageviews2026-07-06 — 11 pageviews2026-07-10 — 8 pageviews2026-07-14 — 13 pageviews2026-07-18 — 10 pageviews2026-07-22 — 9 pageviews2026-07-26 — 9 pageviews2026-07-30 — 5 pageviews2026-08-03 — 7 pageviews2026-08-07 — 8 pageviews2026-08-11 — 12 pageviews2026-08-15 — 15 pageviews2026-08-19 — 9 pageviews2026-08-23 — 9 pageviews2026-08-27 — 8 pageviews2026-08-31 — 7 pageviews2026-09-04 — 5 pageviews2026-09-08 — 9 pageviews2026-09-12 — 25 pageviews2026-09-16 — 27 pageviews2026-09-20 — 17 pageviews2026-09-24 — 11 pageviews2026-09-28 — 10 pageviews2026-10-02 — 8 pageviews2026-10-06 — 6 pageviews2026-10-10 — 10 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

36
achievements tracked
92.7%
earned "Shocked into the Unknown"
39.3%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportGamepad RecommendedDualShock Controller SupportDualShock Controller SupportDualSense Controller SupportDualSense Controller SupportSteam CloudFamily Sharing1 DLC

7 supported languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Portuguese - Brazil, Japanese, Simplified Chinese

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2024-07-31 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)1,74927%36

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

Where its players are

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

Player tags

2DRPGJRPGIndieActionCombatNarrativeSteampunkPlatformerStory Rich

Census log

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

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