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Girl Genius: Adventures In Castle Heterodyne

Rain Games · 2023-09-05

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ActionAdventure

Franchise: Girl Genius · Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Third person

Releases: Sep 05, 2023 (Linux), Sep 05, 2023 (Mac), Apr 03, 2024 (Nintendo Switch), Sep 05, 2023 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Sep 05, 2024 (PlayStation 5), Sep 05, 2024 (PlayStation 4)

A fabulous Action Adventure game based on the wonderful graphic novel series, Girl Genius™, by authors Phil & Kaja Foglio.

88%
positive of 113 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
4.70★
PlayStation Store rating (10 ratings)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$29.99
steam price (US)

Discover the award winning, gaslamp fantasy world of “Girl Genius”! Experience Agatha Heterodyne’s story, as she navigates the hostile hallways, catacombs and kitchens of her ancestral home, Castle Heterodyne. As the Lost Heir to a mad family, she must return the ancient fortress to its former glory and ascend the throne as a "True Heterodyne". Only then can she stand up to the might of the Wulfenbach Empire and other power hungry usurpers. But first, she has to contend with a corrupted and insane AI controlling the castle, its spiky death traps, and bottomless doom-pits. Not to mention the p(Storyline via IGDB)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 8 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 56% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 53% of 16,269 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 2.3k–5.1k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 113 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

lowest across shops (ITAD)$7.19-76%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $7.19 at Fanatical (2026-08-04) · bundled 1×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $29.99 · on sale 36 of 63 observed days · at its all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
151520232026Week of 2023-09-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-09-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$29.99$7.192023-09-052026-09-152023-09-05 — best price $26.992023-11-29 — best price $29.992023-12-21 — best price $22.492024-02-06 — best price $29.992024-03-21 — best price $29.992024-06-19 — best price $14.992024-08-26 — best price $14.992025-01-02 — best price $29.992025-02-05 — best price $14.992025-03-20 — best price $29.992025-05-01 — best price $14.992025-05-21 — best price $29.992025-07-10 — best price $29.992025-08-26 — best price $14.992025-09-23 — best price $29.992025-10-06 — best price $29.992025-10-14 — best price $14.992025-11-05 — best price $29.992025-12-11 — best price $14.992026-01-05 — best price $29.992026-01-23 — best price $14.992026-03-16 — best price $29.992026-04-03 — best price $14.992026-04-25 — best price $29.992026-05-13 — best price $29.992026-05-27 — best price $29.992026-06-04 — best price $14.992026-06-17 — best price $14.992026-06-25 — best price $8.992026-07-09 — best price $29.992026-07-14 — best price $29.992026-07-27 — best price $29.992026-08-09 — best price $29.992026-08-23 — best price $29.992026-09-09 — best price $29.992026-09-15 — best price $7.19
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

33
achievements tracked
65.3%
earned "A Quest For A Glorious Cup Of Coffee"
17.5%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam CloudFamily Sharing

2 supported languages: English, Norwegian

Player tags

3DDramaActionCombatComedyFantasyTop-DownAdventureSteampunkStory Rich

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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