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Identifile: Desktop Dungeon cover art

Identifile: Desktop Dungeon

Gearbyte Games · 2025-11-24

Steam

ActionAdventureIndieEarly Access

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Side view

Releases: Oct 14, 2024 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Become the ultimate desktop cursor in a deeply infected operating system! Navigate folders like dungeon rooms, delete viruses, and level up with EXEs in this action-packed roguelike.

Identifile: Desktop Dungeon is an Action, Adventure, Indie, Early Access game released in 2025, priced at $9.99, with a Very Positive review sentiment (93% of 187 reviews).

93%
positive of 190 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$9.99
steam price (US)

Your computer has been infected by an unknown virus, and with your antivirus down, it’s up to you—the cursor—to save it from being overrun.(Storyline via IGDB)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 12 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity down 40% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (51 reviews).
  • · Top 30% of 27,649 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 3.8k–8.6k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 190 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $6.99 at Steam (2026-09-16)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $9.99 · on sale 8 of 16 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
474720252026Week of 2025-11-24: 47 positiveWeek of 2025-11-24: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2025-12-08: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-12-08: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-15: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-12-22: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-12-29: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-29: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-01-05: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-12: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-19: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-26: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-02-02: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-02-02: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-09: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-02-09: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-16: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-02-23: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-02: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-09: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-03-16: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-03-23: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-03-30: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-03-30: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-13: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-04-27: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-05-04: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-05-04: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-18: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-18: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-08: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-15: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-15: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-22: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-06-22: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-29: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-06: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-07-13: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-20: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-03: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-10: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-08-10: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$9.99$7.492025-11-242026-08-132025-11-24 — best price $8.492025-12-08 — best price $9.992026-01-30 — best price $7.992026-02-13 — best price $9.992026-03-15 — best price $7.992026-03-18 — best price $9.992026-03-19 — best price $7.992026-03-26 — best price $9.992026-04-27 — best price $7.492026-05-05 — best price $9.992026-06-08 — best price $7.492026-06-15 — best price $9.992026-06-25 — best price $7.492026-07-09 — best price $9.992026-08-06 — best price $7.492026-08-13 — best price $9.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

60+
achievements tracked
98.9%
earned "Hello World!"
35.9%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsCustom Volume ControlsAdjustable DifficultyMouse Only OptionSteam CloudSteam LeaderboardsFamily Sharing1 DLC

12 supported languages: English, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Spanish - Spain, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, French, German, Polish, Spanish - Latin America, Turkish

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2025-11-24 (Steam store data)

Census log

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

Recent updates

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Similarity via IGDB.

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