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LIZARDS MUST DIE

Smola Game Studio · 2023-09-27

Steam

ActionAdventureIndieMassively Multiplayer

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative · Perspectives: Third person

Releases: Sep 27, 2023 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

The great exploits of the Ancient Rus in the war with the lizards. Immerse yourself in the world of Hyperborea and defeat hordes of Lizards and other unholy who encroached on holy places Ancestors. Choose a blessed hero and go save the world from the green plague.

LIZARDS MUST DIE is an Action, Adventure, Indie, and Massively Multiplayer game released in 2023, priced at $3.99, with Overwhelmingly Positive (96% of 26441 reviews) and an estimated 500,000 .. 1,000,000 owners.

3
playing now
96%
positive of 26k reviews
Overwhelmingly Positive
steam's rating (official)
500,000–1,000,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
99/100
IGDB user rating (15 ratings)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$3.99
steam price (US)

3 players in-game as of 2026-10-15 03:00 UTC (census sample)

Trailer

LIZARDS MUST DIE trailer thumbnail

LIZARDS MUST DIE 2 IS FINALLY HERE.

≈486,161 YouTube results for this game's trailer search

Health check

Healthy
  • · 3 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 562 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~70/week).
  • · Review velocity down 39% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (10,132 reviews).
  • · Top 3% of 27,841 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 529k–1.2M copies

Review-multiple estimate from 26,438 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.74 at Steam (2025-07-31)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $3.99 · on sale 9 of 15 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
10.0k10.0k20232026Week of 2023-09-01: 3,965 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 99 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 4,677 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 140 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 9,981 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 151 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 567 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 39 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 627 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 57 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 586 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 38 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 511 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 48 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 384 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 21 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 335 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 28 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 233 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 23 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 330 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 27 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 265 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 22 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 238 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 23 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 160 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 209 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 16 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 212 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 179 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 184 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 145 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 21 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 95 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 121 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 16 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 95 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 16 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 108 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 111 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 82 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 81 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 129 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 81 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 95 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 36 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 78 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 50 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 63 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 50 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 43 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 5 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

802026-09-15 12:00 — 8 players2026-09-16 20:00 — 6 players2026-09-18 04:00 — 4 players2026-09-19 11:00 — 7 players2026-09-20 19:00 — 8 players2026-09-22 03:00 — 1 players2026-09-23 10:00 — 3 players2026-09-24 18:00 — 5 players2026-09-26 01:00 — 3 players2026-09-27 09:00 — 3 players2026-09-28 16:00 — 6 players2026-09-30 00:00 — 0 players2026-10-01 07:00 — 3 players2026-10-02 15:00 — 7 players2026-10-03 22:00 — 3 players2026-10-05 06:00 — 4 players2026-10-06 14:00 — 8 players2026-10-07 21:00 — 2 players2026-10-09 05:00 — 5 players2026-10-10 12:00 — 7 players2026-10-11 20:00 — 3 players2026-10-13 04:00 — 2 players2026-10-14 11:00 — 3 players2026-10-15 03:00 — 3 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
1284Oct 2023Aug 2026Oct 2023 — avg 128 · peak 764Nov 2023 — avg 99 · peak 429Dec 2023 — avg 44 · peak 548Jan 2024 — avg 62 · peak 630Feb 2024 — avg 66 · peak 332Mar 2024 — avg 48 · peak 164Apr 2024 — avg 33 · peak 122May 2024 — avg 26 · peak 104Jun 2024 — avg 16 · peak 62Jul 2024 — avg 23 · peak 66Aug 2024 — avg 18 · peak 67Sep 2024 — avg 18 · peak 63Oct 2024 — avg 11 · peak 40Nov 2024 — avg 17 · peak 60Dec 2024 — avg 16 · peak 122Jan 2025 — avg 14 · peak 61Feb 2025 — avg 13 · peak 44Mar 2025 — avg 12 · peak 43Apr 2025 — avg 12 · peak 71May 2025 — avg 10 · peak 34Jun 2025 — avg 9 · peak 28Jul 2025 — avg 8 · peak 23Aug 2025 — avg 10 · peak 52Sep 2025 — avg 7 · peak 29Oct 2025 — avg 7 · peak 26Nov 2025 — avg 11 · peak 41Dec 2025 — avg 7 · peak 24Jan 2026 — avg 8 · peak 45Feb 2026 — avg 5 · peak 25Mar 2026 — avg 7 · peak 32Apr 2026 — avg 5 · peak 19May 2026 — avg 9 · peak 70Jun 2026 — avg 5 · peak 15Jul 2026 — avg 5 · peak 17Aug 2026 — avg 4 · peak 15
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$3.99$0.742023-09-272026-08-032023-09-27 — best price $1.792023-11-07 — best price $1.392023-11-28 — best price $1.992024-01-04 — best price $1.992024-02-09 — best price $1.992024-03-21 — best price $1.992024-04-05 — best price $1.992024-05-19 — best price $1.992024-07-11 — best price $1.992024-08-04 — best price $1.992024-09-18 — best price $1.992024-11-18 — best price $1.992024-12-04 — best price $1.992025-01-02 — best price $1.992025-02-06 — best price $1.342025-03-13 — best price $1.342025-05-03 — best price $1.192025-06-18 — best price $0.892025-06-27 — best price $0.892025-07-31 — best price $0.742025-09-15 — best price $0.742025-09-29 — best price $0.742025-10-31 — best price $0.742025-12-18 — best price $0.742026-01-26 — best price $3.992026-03-11 — best price $3.992026-03-26 — best price $3.992026-05-12 — best price $3.992026-07-09 — best price $3.992026-08-03 — best price $3.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

28
achievements tracked
92%
earned "Humble beginning"
35.8%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSSingle-playerMulti-playerCo-opOnline Co-opSteam AchievementsSteam Trading CardsDualShock Controller SupportDualShock Controller SupportDualSense Controller SupportDualSense Controller Support1 DLC

4 supported languages: English, Russian, French, Spanish - Spain

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2024-01-26 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)4,43716%28

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

Where its players are

Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.

Player tags

3DRPGActionFantasyDifficultRealisticAction RPGHistoricalSouls-likeAtmospheric

Census log

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

Recent updates

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