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Inherit the Earth: Quest for the Orb

The Dreamers Guild · Nightdive Studios · 2014-11-26

SteamGOG

AdventureCasual

Modes: Single player

Releases: Jan 02, 1994 (DOS), Oct 03, 2014 (Linux), Oct 03, 2014 (Mac)

The Orb of Storms has been stolen and Rif is accused. You have only days to help Rif get to the bottom of the mystery of the missing Orb.

Inherit the Earth: Quest for the Orb is an Adventure and Casual game released in 2014, priced at $0.89, with an estimated 20,000 .. 50,000 owners and a Very Positive sentiment based on 94% of 145 reviews.

1
playing now
94%
positive of 145 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
70/100
IGDB user rating (3 ratings)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$0.89
steam price (US)

1 players in-game as of 2026-10-15 15:00 UTC (census sample)

Inherit the Earth: Quest for the Orb is a point-and-click adventure game developed by The Dreamers Guild and published by New World Computing in 1994. The game is set in a world of talking humanoid animals, with the gameplay following on a fox on a quest to find a stolen orb, a relic of the mythical humans.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 1 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 11 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 8% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 34% of 29,427 Adventure games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-01

Estimated sales: 3.6k–8.7k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 145 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

GOG$5.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $0.89 at Steam (2021-06-24) · bundled 3×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $5.99 · on sale 62 of 90 observed days · $5.10 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
4420142026Week of 2014-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2014-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2015-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2015-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2015-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2015-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2015-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2015-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2015-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 2 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

202026-09-16 01:00 — 0 players2026-09-17 08:00 — 0 players2026-09-18 16:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 23:00 — 0 players2026-09-21 07:00 — 0 players2026-09-22 15:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 22:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 06:00 — 0 players2026-09-26 13:00 — 1 players2026-09-27 21:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 04:00 — 0 players2026-09-30 12:00 — 0 players2026-10-01 19:00 — 1 players2026-10-03 03:00 — 0 players2026-10-04 11:00 — 0 players2026-10-05 18:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 02:00 — 0 players2026-10-08 09:00 — 0 players2026-10-09 17:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 01:00 — 1 players2026-10-12 08:00 — 0 players2026-10-13 16:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 23:00 — 0 players2026-10-15 15:00 — 1 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$5.99$0.892015-01-012026-10-152015-01-01 — best price $5.992016-07-04 — best price $5.992017-11-06 — best price $1.492018-06-22 — best price $1.492019-10-28 — best price $1.192020-06-01 — best price $5.992020-08-05 — best price $4.402020-09-14 — best price $4.402020-10-23 — best price $4.402020-12-11 — best price $4.402021-01-24 — best price $5.992021-03-09 — best price $5.992021-04-29 — best price $4.402021-06-15 — best price $4.402021-07-27 — best price $5.392021-09-09 — best price $4.402021-10-23 — best price $4.402021-11-29 — best price $5.992022-01-27 — best price $2.092022-03-22 — best price $4.402022-05-17 — best price $5.392022-06-28 — best price $5.992022-08-15 — best price $5.392022-12-08 — best price $5.992023-08-28 — best price $2.992024-05-17 — best price $5.992024-10-08 — best price $5.992025-04-03 — best price $5.992025-09-25 — best price $0.892026-02-04 — best price $5.992026-07-13 — best price $0.892026-09-10 — best price $1.192026-09-30 — best price $1.192026-10-15 — best price $5.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

34992026-05-30 — 16 pageviews2026-06-03 — 17 pageviews2026-06-07 — 21 pageviews2026-06-11 — 17 pageviews2026-06-15 — 9 pageviews2026-06-19 — 26 pageviews2026-06-23 — 16 pageviews2026-06-27 — 15 pageviews2026-07-01 — 46 pageviews2026-07-05 — 349 pageviews2026-07-09 — 50 pageviews2026-07-13 — 41 pageviews2026-07-17 — 46 pageviews2026-07-21 — 23 pageviews2026-07-25 — 19 pageviews2026-07-29 — 24 pageviews2026-08-02 — 18 pageviews2026-08-06 — 14 pageviews2026-08-10 — 168 pageviews2026-08-14 — 53 pageviews2026-08-18 — 26 pageviews2026-08-22 — 29 pageviews2026-08-26 — 39 pageviews2026-08-30 — 27 pageviews2026-09-03 — 21 pageviews2026-09-07 — 18 pageviews2026-09-11 — 30 pageviews2026-09-15 — 21 pageviews2026-09-19 — 31 pageviews2026-09-23 — 21 pageviews2026-09-27 — 39 pageviews2026-10-01 — 33 pageviews2026-10-05 — 16 pageviews2026-10-08 — 12 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxSingle-playerFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Player tags

1990'sCasualClassicAdventureSingleplayerPoint & ClickPixel Graphics

Census log

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

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