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Lord of the Dark Castle

Craze Creative Studios · Conglomerate 5 · 2015-08-13

Steam

ActionAdventureCasualIndieRPGStrategy

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Side view

Releases: Aug 13, 2015 (Linux), Aug 13, 2015 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Aug 13, 2015 (Mac)

Lord of the Dark Castle is a casual turn-based retro style roguelike dungeon crawler with elements of strategy. Randomized levels, lots of skills without dependencies and lots of spells to cast. Challenging Monster AI - play it smart or die. Remember: Death is Permanent!

Lord of the Dark Castle is a 2015 Action, Adventure, Casual, and Indie game priced at $4.99, with an estimated 200,000 to 500,000 owners and Mostly Positive sentiment (76% of 183 reviews).

2
playing now
76%
positive of 183 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unsupported
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Unsupported
$4.99
steam price (US)

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

Health check

Quiet
  • · 2 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 11 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity up 57% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 30% of 27,701 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 4.6k–11k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 183 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.28 at Steam (2022-12-22) · bundled 4×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $4.99 · on sale 14 of 17 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
6620152026Week of 2015-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2015-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

20502026-09-15 15:00 — 55 players2026-09-16 23:00 — 2 players2026-09-18 06:00 — 2 players2026-09-19 14:00 — 5 players2026-09-20 21:00 — 6 players2026-09-22 05:00 — 2 players2026-09-23 13:00 — 1 players2026-09-24 20:00 — 3 players2026-09-26 04:00 — 1 players2026-09-27 11:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 19:00 — 3 players2026-09-30 02:00 — 3 players2026-10-01 10:00 — 25 players2026-10-02 17:00 — 3 players2026-10-04 01:00 — 9 players2026-10-05 09:00 — 2 players2026-10-06 16:00 — 0 players2026-10-08 00:00 — 3 players2026-10-09 07:00 — 5 players2026-10-10 15:00 — 10 players2026-10-11 23:00 — 2 players2026-10-13 06:00 — 1 players2026-10-14 14:00 — 2 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
1680Apr 2015Aug 2026Apr 2015 — avg 1 · peak 5Jul 2015 — avg 4 · peak 85Oct 2015 — avg 0 · peak 3Jan 2016 — avg 0 · peak 4Apr 2016 — avg 1 · peak 12Jul 2016 — avg 1 · peak 4Oct 2016 — avg 0 · peak 3Jan 2017 — avg 0 · peak 2Apr 2017 — avg 0 · peak 2Jul 2017 — avg 0 · peak 3Oct 2017 — avg 0 · peak 2Jan 2018 — avg 0 · peak 2Apr 2018 — avg 0 · peak 2Jul 2018 — avg 0 · peak 2Oct 2018 — avg 0 · peak 2Jan 2019 — avg 0 · peak 2Apr 2019 — avg 0 · peak 2Aug 2019 — avg 0 · peak 1Apr 2021 — avg 1 · peak 13Jul 2021 — avg 1 · peak 6Oct 2021 — avg 3 · peak 12Mar 2022 — avg 9 · peak 119Jun 2022 — avg 35 · peak 239Sep 2022 — avg 3 · peak 93Dec 2022 — avg 45 · peak 311Mar 2023 — avg 111 · peak 1,204Jun 2023 — avg 31 · peak 1,054Sep 2023 — avg 9 · peak 243Dec 2023 — avg 9 · peak 194Mar 2024 — avg 6 · peak 121Jun 2024 — avg 10 · peak 201Feb 2025 — avg 9 · peak 73Apr 2026 — avg 8 · peak 50Jul 2026 — avg 12 · peak 136Aug 2026 — avg 23 · peak 310
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$9.99$0.282015-04-252026-07-272015-04-25 — best price $4.992016-02-05 — best price $3.492016-07-04 — best price $3.992017-07-05 — best price $3.992021-03-08 — best price $0.542021-06-14 — best price $0.542021-08-02 — best price $0.542021-10-28 — best price $0.542021-11-24 — best price $0.542022-01-27 — best price $0.542022-05-02 — best price $0.542022-06-24 — best price $0.492022-09-05 — best price $0.492022-11-14 — best price $0.492022-12-22 — best price $0.282023-02-27 — best price $0.282023-04-10 — best price $0.282023-06-29 — best price $0.282023-09-14 — best price $9.992023-11-22 — best price $0.492024-01-08 — best price $0.492024-03-14 — best price $0.492024-06-27 — best price $0.492024-09-30 — best price $0.492024-12-19 — best price $0.492025-03-03 — best price $0.492025-04-14 — best price $0.492025-06-27 — best price $0.492025-09-08 — best price $0.492025-10-20 — best price $0.492025-12-18 — best price $0.492026-03-02 — best price $0.492026-05-13 — best price $4.992026-07-27 — best price $4.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

25
achievements tracked
0.9%
earned "RoyalArmorer"
0.8%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

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1 supported languages: English

Player tags

RPGCRPGIndieActionCasualStrategyAdventureRogue-likeTurn-BasedExploration

Census log

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

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