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KAKU: Ancient Seal

BINGOBELL · 2024-07-11

SteamPlayStation Store

ActionAdventureIndieRPG

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Third person

Releases: Jul 12, 2024 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Oct 17, 2025 (PlayStation 5), Oct 17, 2025 (Xbox Series X|S)

An Open world Action adventure combining exploration with puzzles and dynamic combat. Go on a journey across a sprawling continent as Kaku, a boy tasked to restore balance to the land. Brave the four elemental regions with the help of Piggy, his powerful companion and conquer their lords.

KAKU: Ancient Seal is an Action, Adventure, Indie, RPG game released in 2024, priced at $24.99, with an estimated 500,000 .. 1,000,000 owners and Mostly Positive (79% of 1127 reviews).

6
playing now
79%
positive of 1.1k reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
500,000–1,000,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
65/100
critic score (2 outlets, IGDB)
3
Nexus mods (127 downloads)
3.52★
PlayStation Store rating (142 ratings)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$24.99
steam price (US)

6 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 12:00 UTC (census sample)

Embark on a thrilling adventure, play as Kaku, accompanied by Piggy, as you restore balance to the continent. Engage in dynamic combat and solve puzzles. Craft your own combat style, harness diviner power, explore diverse landscapes and unravel the mysteries of the World of Ruins. Set in a primordial, era this world created by the elemental power of the Creator Saga, was one day hit by a calamity from another realm, causing the dispersion of the elemental souls, and the world split into four continents, while its creator went missing... Millennia later, a young man named Kaku, living in the (Storyline via IGDB)

Health check

Cooling
  • · 6 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 75 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~9/week).
  • · Review velocity down 58% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (1,056 reviews).
  • · Top 14% of 27,740 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-31

Estimated sales: 23k–51k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 1,127 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $9.99 at Fanatical (2026-08-04) · bundled 2×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $24.99 · on sale 27 of 52 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
96696620232026Week of 2023-05-01: 211 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 48 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 35 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 40 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 31 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 30 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 26 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 966 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 90 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 28 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 47 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 46 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 43 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 30 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 28 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 30 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 38 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 35 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 2 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

802026-09-15 13:00 — 4 players2026-09-16 21:00 — 2 players2026-09-18 05:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 12:00 — 3 players2026-09-20 20:00 — 1 players2026-09-22 03:00 — 2 players2026-09-23 11:00 — 4 players2026-09-24 18:00 — 3 players2026-09-26 02:00 — 2 players2026-09-27 09:00 — 4 players2026-09-28 17:00 — 6 players2026-09-30 00:00 — 2 players2026-10-01 08:00 — 1 players2026-10-02 15:00 — 1 players2026-10-03 23:00 — 3 players2026-10-05 07:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 15:00 — 2 players2026-10-07 22:00 — 0 players2026-10-09 06:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 13:00 — 2 players2026-10-11 21:00 — 2 players2026-10-13 04:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 12:00 — 6 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$24.99$9.992023-05-042026-08-242023-05-04 — best price $22.242023-06-30 — best price $19.992023-09-18 — best price $19.992023-11-22 — best price $18.742024-02-06 — best price $18.742024-03-14 — best price $18.742024-04-26 — best price $18.742024-07-11 — best price $24.992024-07-25 — best price $24.992024-08-26 — best price $18.742024-10-21 — best price $18.492024-12-09 — best price $17.992025-01-02 — best price $24.992025-03-13 — best price $17.492025-05-05 — best price $17.492025-06-27 — best price $16.242025-09-15 — best price $17.492025-11-03 — best price $17.492026-01-12 — best price $24.992026-02-24 — best price $24.992026-04-13 — best price $24.992026-04-26 — best price $14.742026-05-11 — best price $14.992026-05-28 — best price $24.992026-06-12 — best price $13.742026-06-19 — best price $13.742026-07-08 — best price $12.502026-07-14 — best price $24.992026-08-03 — best price $12.492026-08-11 — best price $11.252026-08-24 — best price $12.50
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

60+
achievements tracked
73.8%
earned "Weird Oldman"
12.6%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam Trading CardsCamera ComfortCustom Volume ControlsAdjustable DifficultySave AnytimeSteam CloudFamily Sharing2 DLC

12 supported languages: English, Simplified Chinese, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Russian, Japanese, Traditional Chinese, Korean, Italian, Turkish, Portuguese - Brazil

Post-launch support: 2 DLC released, first 2024-07-12 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)6042%84
PS5 (PlayStation)2367%35
Xbox Series (Xbox)701%35

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

RPGActionCombatPuzzleCartoonFantasyAdventureMythologyAction RPGOpen World

Census log

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

Recent updates

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