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Lock's Quest

Digital Continue · HandyGames · 2017-05-30

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IndieRPGStrategy

Modes: Single player

Releases: May 30, 2017 (PlayStation 4), May 30, 2017 (Linux), May 30, 2017 (Mac), Sep 05, 2019 (iOS), Sep 25, 2019 (Android), May 30, 2017 (Xbox One)

Build Defenses and Battle against the Clockwork horde in this 2D Action RPG / Tower Defense hybrid. Experience a gripping story, which unfolds as you progress through 75 Days of warfare, aided by a collection of turrets, traps and special attacks.

0
playing now
43%
positive of 141 reviews
Mixed
steam rating
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
71/100
critic score (1 outlets, IGDB)
50/100
IGDB user rating (2 ratings)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$14.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 13:00 UTC (census sample)

Lock's Quest is a 2008 real-time strategy tower defense video game developed by 5th Cell and published by THQ for the Nintendo DS. It is 5th Cell's second Nintendo DS game. Players control Lock, a young man forced to help defend the kingdom of Antonia from an invasion of clockwork soldiers. The gameplay revolves around constructing defences such as walls and turrets on isometric battle maps, then controlling Lock to fight alongside and maintain his defences.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 11 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 15% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 57% of 18,104 Indie games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 3.5k–8.5k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 141 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

GOG$14.99
Microsoft Store$19.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $0.74 at Epic Game Store (2022-11-22) · bundled 3×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $14.99 · on sale 73 of 109 observed days · $14.25 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
7720172026Week of 2017-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2017-05-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2017-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2017-06-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2017-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

102026-08-12 01:00 — 0 players2026-08-12 15:00 — 1 players2026-08-13 07:00 — 0 players2026-08-13 23:00 — 0 players2026-08-14 15:00 — 1 players2026-08-15 07:00 — 0 players2026-08-15 23:00 — 1 players2026-08-16 15:00 — 1 players2026-08-17 07:00 — 0 players2026-08-17 22:00 — 0 players2026-08-18 14:00 — 1 players2026-08-19 06:00 — 1 players2026-08-19 22:00 — 1 players2026-08-20 13:00 — 1 players2026-08-21 05:00 — 1 players2026-08-21 21:00 — 0 players2026-08-22 13:00 — 0 players2026-08-23 04:00 — 0 players2026-08-23 20:00 — 0 players2026-08-24 12:00 — 0 players2026-08-25 04:00 — 0 players2026-08-25 20:00 — 1 players2026-08-26 12:00 — 0 players2026-08-27 04:00 — 0 players2026-08-27 20:00 — 1 players2026-08-28 12:00 — 0 players2026-08-29 05:00 — 0 players2026-08-29 21:00 — 1 players2026-08-30 13:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$14.99$1.202017-05-302026-08-302017-05-30 — best price $11.992017-09-05 — best price $11.992018-01-08 — best price $7.492018-06-01 — best price $14.992018-09-17 — best price $14.992019-01-08 — best price $14.992019-04-08 — best price $11.992019-07-12 — best price $3.752019-10-21 — best price $14.992020-01-05 — best price $14.992020-03-23 — best price $2.992020-05-28 — best price $14.992020-08-31 — best price $2.252020-12-21 — best price $2.252021-02-22 — best price $11.892021-04-05 — best price $14.992021-05-16 — best price $11.892021-07-12 — best price $2.992021-10-03 — best price $14.992021-12-15 — best price $14.992022-02-23 — best price $2.992022-05-27 — best price $14.992022-08-29 — best price $14.992022-12-01 — best price $2.542023-02-07 — best price $14.992023-06-11 — best price $2.992023-09-14 — best price $1.492023-12-14 — best price $2.372024-03-28 — best price $14.992024-06-13 — best price $1.492024-09-25 — best price $2.982024-12-06 — best price $13.492025-03-19 — best price $2.992025-06-18 — best price $4.942025-10-16 — best price $2.602026-01-05 — best price $2.992026-05-08 — best price $1.342026-08-15 — best price $2.992026-08-30 — best price $14.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

54122026-05-14 — 27 pageviews2026-05-17 — 31 pageviews2026-05-20 — 34 pageviews2026-05-23 — 29 pageviews2026-05-26 — 21 pageviews2026-05-29 — 24 pageviews2026-06-01 — 23 pageviews2026-06-04 — 27 pageviews2026-06-07 — 28 pageviews2026-06-10 — 30 pageviews2026-06-13 — 28 pageviews2026-06-16 — 22 pageviews2026-06-19 — 30 pageviews2026-06-22 — 23 pageviews2026-06-25 — 28 pageviews2026-06-28 — 21 pageviews2026-07-01 — 33 pageviews2026-07-04 — 18 pageviews2026-07-07 — 14 pageviews2026-07-10 — 27 pageviews2026-07-13 — 18 pageviews2026-07-16 — 22 pageviews2026-07-19 — 35 pageviews2026-07-22 — 12 pageviews2026-07-25 — 52 pageviews2026-07-28 — 32 pageviews2026-07-31 — 18 pageviews2026-08-03 — 23 pageviews2026-08-06 — 17 pageviews2026-08-09 — 31 pageviews2026-08-12 — 24 pageviews2026-08-15 — 25 pageviews2026-08-18 — 32 pageviews2026-08-21 — 26 pageviews2026-08-24 — 31 pageviews2026-08-25 — 23 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

27
achievements tracked
55.3%
earned "You Did What ?"
4.1%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam Trading CardsPartial Controller SupportFamily Sharing1 DLC

9 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Danish, Finnish, Norwegian, Swedish

Player tags

2DRPGAnimeIndieActionCasualClassicFantasyStrategyAdventure

Census log

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

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