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Kalaban cover art

Kalaban

Rayhouse Productions · GameRealmMadness · 2016-12-29

Steam

ActionAdventureIndie

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Bird view / Isometric

Releases: Dec 29, 2016 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Horror-themed action-adventure set in alternate history Finland.

Kalaban is an Action, Adventure, and Indie game released in 2016, priced at $9.99, with an estimated 100,000 to 200,000 owners and a Mixed review sentiment (56% of 97 reviews).

0
playing now
56%
positive of 97 reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
70/100
IGDB user rating (1 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$9.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 16:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 3 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~0/week).
  • · Review velocity down 40% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 39% of 27,667 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-01

Estimated sales: 2.4k–5.8k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 97 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.34 at GamersGate (2023-06-30) · bundled 9×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $9.99 · on sale 10 of 14 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
4420162026Week of 2016-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2017-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 2 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

102026-09-15 01:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 10:00 — 0 players2026-09-17 17:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 01:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 08:00 — 0 players2026-09-21 16:00 — 0 players2026-09-22 23:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 07:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 14:00 — 1 players2026-09-26 22:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 05:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 13:00 — 0 players2026-09-30 20:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 04:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 11:00 — 0 players2026-10-04 20:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 03:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 11:00 — 0 players2026-10-08 18:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 02:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 09:00 — 0 players2026-10-12 17:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 00:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 16:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
450Jan 2017Dec 2023Jan 2017 — avg 0 · peak 4Mar 2017 — avg 0 · peak 1May 2017 — avg 4 · peak 208Jul 2017 — avg 0 · peak 5Sep 2017 — avg 0 · peak 2Nov 2017 — avg 0 · peak 2Jan 2018 — avg 0 · peak 2Mar 2018 — avg 0 · peak 1May 2018 — avg 0 · peak 2Jul 2018 — avg 0 · peak 1Sep 2018 — avg 0 · peak 1Nov 2018 — avg 0 · peak 1Jan 2019 — avg 1 · peak 10Mar 2019 — avg 0 · peak 2May 2019 — avg 0 · peak 2Jul 2019 — avg 0 · peak 5Sep 2019 — avg 0 · peak 2Dec 2019 — avg 2 · peak 6Feb 2020 — avg 0 · peak 3Nov 2020 — avg 0 · peak 2Jan 2021 — avg 1 · peak 15Jun 2021 — avg 1 · peak 11Jan 2022 — avg 5 · peak 158Aug 2023 — avg 28 · peak 72Dec 2023 — avg 3 · peak 17

▼ −25 avg players (−88.0%) vs prior month — Dec 2023

Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$17.99$0.342016-12-302026-07-102016-12-30 — best price $5.992017-06-22 — best price $2.492019-01-04 — best price $0.492019-04-16 — best price $0.602019-06-26 — best price $0.502019-10-29 — best price $0.862019-12-29 — best price $0.492020-02-03 — best price $17.992020-04-21 — best price $17.992020-07-01 — best price $4.502020-08-28 — best price $0.892020-11-28 — best price $0.592021-01-06 — best price $4.992021-04-20 — best price $4.992021-05-27 — best price $0.492021-07-08 — best price $4.992021-10-25 — best price $0.752021-11-25 — best price $0.742022-01-05 — best price $4.992022-07-07 — best price $4.992022-10-26 — best price $1.302022-11-23 — best price $1.492023-01-03 — best price $4.992023-03-23 — best price $4.992023-08-18 — best price $2.492023-11-02 — best price $4.992023-11-29 — best price $4.992024-01-04 — best price $4.992024-04-11 — best price $4.992024-07-11 — best price $4.992025-02-20 — best price $0.992025-10-28 — best price $1.882026-03-26 — best price $4.992026-07-10 — best price $9.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

26
achievements tracked
7.8%
earned "An apple a day"
2.1%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam Trading CardsFamily Sharing1 DLC

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2019-01-04 (Steam store data)

Player tags

2DRetroActionHorrorSurvivalTop-DownAdventureHand-drawnOpen WorldDark Comedy

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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