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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.

0
playing now
94%
positive of 143 reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
70/100
IGDB user rating (3 ratings)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$0.89
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 13:00 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

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  • · Top 61% of 11,424 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 3.6k–8.6k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 143 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

GOG$1.19-80%
lowest across shops (ITAD)$1.19-80%

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 32 of 52 observed days · $0.30 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Players online

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Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$5.99$0.892015-01-012026-08-302015-01-01 — best price $5.992016-02-12 — best price $5.992017-05-15 — best price $1.502017-12-27 — best price $5.992018-07-31 — best price $1.192019-10-28 — best price $1.192020-05-12 — best price $4.402020-07-16 — best price $4.402020-08-24 — best price $5.992020-09-20 — best price $5.992020-10-23 — best price $4.402020-12-03 — best price $5.392021-01-06 — best price $5.992021-02-08 — best price $4.402021-03-21 — best price $5.992021-04-29 — best price $4.402021-06-09 — best price $1.492021-07-12 — best price $1.192021-08-17 — best price $4.402021-09-19 — best price $4.402021-10-23 — best price $4.402021-11-21 — best price $5.392022-01-06 — best price $5.392022-02-15 — best price $4.402022-03-30 — best price $4.402022-05-17 — best price $5.392022-06-17 — best price $5.392022-07-30 — best price $5.392022-09-01 — best price $5.392023-01-03 — best price $5.992023-08-28 — best price $2.992024-03-21 — best price $5.992024-08-17 — best price $5.992025-01-02 — best price $5.992025-05-08 — best price $1.192025-09-25 — best price $0.892026-01-06 — best price $0.892026-05-28 — best price $4.442026-08-29 — best price $1.192026-08-30 — best price $1.19
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

34982026-05-30 — 16 pageviews2026-06-02 — 30 pageviews2026-06-05 — 12 pageviews2026-06-08 — 8 pageviews2026-06-11 — 17 pageviews2026-06-14 — 10 pageviews2026-06-17 — 25 pageviews2026-06-20 — 14 pageviews2026-06-23 — 16 pageviews2026-06-26 — 10 pageviews2026-06-29 — 22 pageviews2026-07-02 — 41 pageviews2026-07-05 — 349 pageviews2026-07-08 — 77 pageviews2026-07-11 — 39 pageviews2026-07-14 — 32 pageviews2026-07-17 — 46 pageviews2026-07-20 — 21 pageviews2026-07-23 — 29 pageviews2026-07-26 — 38 pageviews2026-07-29 — 24 pageviews2026-08-01 — 34 pageviews2026-08-04 — 34 pageviews2026-08-07 — 28 pageviews2026-08-10 — 168 pageviews2026-08-13 — 95 pageviews2026-08-16 — 26 pageviews2026-08-19 — 23 pageviews2026-08-22 — 29 pageviews2026-08-25 — 27 pageviews2026-08-27 — 31 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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