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Lock's Quest

Digital Continue · HandyGames · 2017-05-30

SteamGOGPlayStation StoreEpic Games StoreMicrosoft Store

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.

Lock's Quest is an Indie, RPG, Strategy game released in 2017, priced at $14.99, with an estimated owner base of 20,000 .. 50,000 and a review sentiment of Mixed (42% of 142 reviews).

0
playing now
42%
positive of 142 reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
71/100
critic score (1 outlets, IGDB)
50/100
IGDB user rating (2 ratings)
3.28★
PlayStation Store rating (295 ratings)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$14.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 23:00 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 30% of 50,300 Indie games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 3.5k–8.5k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 142 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 63 of 141 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

202026-09-16 01:00 — 0 players2026-09-17 08:00 — 0 players2026-09-18 16:00 — 2 players2026-09-19 23:00 — 0 players2026-09-21 07:00 — 0 players2026-09-22 15:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 22:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 06:00 — 0 players2026-09-26 13:00 — 0 players2026-09-27 21:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 04:00 — 0 players2026-09-30 12:00 — 1 players2026-10-01 19:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 03:00 — 0 players2026-10-04 11:00 — 0 players2026-10-05 19:00 — 2 players2026-10-07 02:00 — 0 players2026-10-08 10:00 — 0 players2026-10-09 17:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 01:00 — 2 players2026-10-12 08:00 — 0 players2026-10-13 16:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 23:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
20Mar 2017Apr 2023Mar 2017 — avg 0 · peak 1Jun 2017 — avg 2 · peak 12Aug 2017 — avg 0 · peak 2Oct 2017 — avg 0 · peak 2Dec 2017 — avg 0 · peak 5Feb 2018 — avg 0 · peak 2Apr 2018 — avg 0 · peak 2Jun 2018 — avg 0 · peak 5Aug 2018 — avg 0 · peak 2Oct 2018 — avg 0 · peak 1Dec 2018 — avg 0 · peak 3Feb 2019 — avg 0 · peak 3Apr 2019 — avg 0 · peak 3Jun 2019 — avg 0 · peak 3Aug 2019 — avg 0 · peak 2Oct 2019 — avg 0 · peak 3Mar 2020 — avg 1 · peak 3Jun 2020 — avg 2 · peak 9Aug 2020 — avg 0 · peak 3Oct 2020 — avg 0 · peak 2Dec 2020 — avg 1 · peak 6May 2021 — avg 1 · peak 3Apr 2023 — avg 1 · peak 8

No change (0) in avg players vs prior month — Apr 2023

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

Price history

$14.99$1.202017-05-302026-10-152017-05-30 — 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 $2.992026-09-25 — best price $14.992026-10-15 — best price $14.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

52132026-05-14 — 27 pageviews2026-05-18 — 26 pageviews2026-05-22 — 19 pageviews2026-05-26 — 21 pageviews2026-05-30 — 32 pageviews2026-06-03 — 15 pageviews2026-06-07 — 28 pageviews2026-06-11 — 20 pageviews2026-06-15 — 27 pageviews2026-06-19 — 30 pageviews2026-06-23 — 26 pageviews2026-06-27 — 19 pageviews2026-07-01 — 33 pageviews2026-07-05 — 20 pageviews2026-07-09 — 21 pageviews2026-07-13 — 18 pageviews2026-07-17 — 41 pageviews2026-07-21 — 24 pageviews2026-07-25 — 52 pageviews2026-07-29 — 18 pageviews2026-08-02 — 39 pageviews2026-08-06 — 17 pageviews2026-08-10 — 33 pageviews2026-08-14 — 26 pageviews2026-08-18 — 32 pageviews2026-08-22 — 31 pageviews2026-08-26 — 26 pageviews2026-08-30 — 29 pageviews2026-09-03 — 21 pageviews2026-09-07 — 17 pageviews2026-09-11 — 23 pageviews2026-09-15 — 13 pageviews2026-09-19 — 27 pageviews2026-09-23 — 23 pageviews2026-09-27 — 23 pageviews2026-10-01 — 20 pageviews2026-10-05 — 30 pageviews2026-10-09 — 23 pageviews2026-10-13 — 19 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

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2017-05-30 (Steam store data)

Player tags

2DRPGAnimeIndieActionCasualClassicFantasyStrategyAdventure

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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