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LIZARDS MUST DIE cover art

LIZARDS MUST DIE

Smola Game Studio · 2023-09-27

Steam

ActionAdventureIndieMassively Multiplayer

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative

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.

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

3 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 01:00 UTC (census sample)

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 6% of 10,710 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 529k–1.2M copies

Review-multiple estimate from 26,441 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 13 of 19 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

1002026-08-06 22:00 — 3 players2026-08-07 06:00 — 1 players2026-08-07 14:00 — 5 players2026-08-07 22:00 — 4 players2026-08-08 06:00 — 7 players2026-08-08 14:00 — 4 players2026-08-08 22:00 — 2 players2026-08-09 06:00 — 1 players2026-08-09 14:00 — 4 players2026-08-09 22:00 — 4 players2026-08-10 06:00 — 3 players2026-08-10 15:00 — 5 players2026-08-10 23:00 — 3 players2026-08-11 07:00 — 7 players2026-08-11 15:00 — 4 players2026-08-12 22:00 — 1 players2026-08-14 06:00 — 2 players2026-08-15 14:00 — 7 players2026-08-16 22:00 — 3 players2026-08-18 05:00 — 1 players2026-08-19 13:00 — 0 players2026-08-20 20:00 — 5 players2026-08-22 04:00 — 1 players2026-08-23 11:00 — 10 players2026-08-24 19:00 — 4 players2026-08-26 02:00 — 2 players2026-08-27 10:00 — 5 players2026-08-28 18:00 — 6 players2026-08-30 01:00 — 3 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

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

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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