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Ghoulboy - Dark Sword of Goblin cover art

Ghoulboy - Dark Sword of Goblin

Serkan Bakar · 2017-11-29

SteamPlayStation StoreMicrosoft Store

ActionAdventureCasualIndie

Modes: Single player

Releases: Mar 07, 2019 (Nintendo Switch), Sep 25, 2019 (PlayStation 4), Mar 05, 2019 (PlayStation Vita), Oct 22, 2021 (Xbox One), Nov 05, 2017 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Ghoulboy is a retro-inspired action platformer. Explore a magical realm of dungeons, towns, treasures and devious monsters.

71%
positive of 266 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
70/100
IGDB user rating (2 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$1.49
steam price (US)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 12 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity up 20% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 38% of 17,734 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 6.7k–16k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 266 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

Microsoft Store$9.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

12-month high $9.99 · on sale 0 of 1 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
101020172026Week of 2017-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-12-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-08-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-09-01: 2 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$9.99$1.592017-11-302026-09-222017-11-30 — best price $3.192018-01-01 — best price $2.992018-02-15 — best price $1.992018-02-26 — best price $2.392018-04-30 — best price $2.392018-06-21 — best price $2.392018-08-06 — best price $1.992018-10-30 — best price $2.392018-11-21 — best price $1.992018-12-20 — best price $2.392019-01-08 — best price $5.992019-03-18 — best price $5.592019-05-06 — best price $5.592019-06-26 — best price $3.992019-09-23 — best price $3.992019-10-28 — best price $4.792019-11-26 — best price $4.792019-12-19 — best price $3.192020-01-26 — best price $7.192020-02-03 — best price $7.992020-04-06 — best price $7.992020-05-25 — best price $7.992020-07-09 — best price $7.992020-08-10 — best price $7.992020-09-28 — best price $7.992020-11-02 — best price $7.992020-12-01 — best price $7.992021-01-05 — best price $7.992021-02-15 — best price $7.992021-03-08 — best price $7.992026-09-22 — best price $9.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

6
achievements tracked
78%
earned "Big Sword"
27.2%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Player tags

2DRPGIndieRetroActionArcadeCasualAdventurePlatformerMetroidvania

Census log

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

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