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Lord of the Dark Castle cover art

Lord of the Dark Castle

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

Steam

ActionAdventureCasualIndieRPGStrategy

Modes: Single player

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!

2
playing now
76%
positive of 182 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam rating
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$4.99
steam price (US)

2 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 04:00 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 60% of 10,862 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 4.5k–11k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 182 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 18 of 21 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

14902026-08-06 23:00 — 4 players2026-08-07 07:00 — 0 players2026-08-07 15:00 — 8 players2026-08-07 23:00 — 5 players2026-08-08 07:00 — 1 players2026-08-08 15:00 — 5 players2026-08-08 23:00 — 21 players2026-08-09 07:00 — 4 players2026-08-09 15:00 — 2 players2026-08-09 23:00 — 0 players2026-08-10 07:00 — 2 players2026-08-10 15:00 — 0 players2026-08-10 23:00 — 5 players2026-08-11 07:00 — 20 players2026-08-11 16:00 — 23 players2026-08-12 23:00 — 50 players2026-08-14 07:00 — 31 players2026-08-15 14:00 — 18 players2026-08-16 22:00 — 149 players2026-08-18 06:00 — 8 players2026-08-19 13:00 — 3 players2026-08-20 21:00 — 11 players2026-08-22 04:00 — 1 players2026-08-23 12:00 — 19 players2026-08-24 20:00 — 1 players2026-08-26 03:00 — 28 players2026-08-27 11:00 — 3 players2026-08-28 20:00 — 20 players2026-08-30 04:00 — 2 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

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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