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Malignant Survivors

Eren Aydin · 2024-02-13

Steam

ActionRPG

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Bird view / Isometric

Releases: Feb 13, 2024 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Mar 06, 2025 (Nintendo Switch)

3D rogue-like action game in a dark fantasy theme. Blow up thousands of malignants and find quality loot to improve your heroes for harder challenges.

63%
positive of 313 reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$1.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 18 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity down 58% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (69 reviews).
  • · Top 25% of 27,908 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 6.3k–14k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 313 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

lowest across shops (ITAD)$1.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $0.55 at Steam (2024-11-27)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $1.99 · on sale 5 of 10 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
464620242026Week of 2024-02-01: 46 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 23 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 45 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 20 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 2 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$1.99$0.552024-02-132026-10-082024-02-13 — best price $1.592024-03-14 — best price $1.592024-04-01 — best price $1.592024-05-13 — best price $0.992024-06-27 — best price $0.992024-07-15 — best price $1.392024-08-28 — best price $0.992024-10-28 — best price $0.592024-11-27 — best price $0.552024-12-10 — best price $0.792024-12-19 — best price $0.552025-01-18 — best price $0.552025-03-01 — best price $0.552025-03-13 — best price $0.552025-06-27 — best price $0.552025-09-06 — best price $0.552025-09-29 — best price $0.552025-10-27 — best price $0.552025-12-18 — best price $0.592026-03-22 — best price $0.592026-06-25 — best price $0.692026-10-01 — best price $0.792026-10-08 — best price $1.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

5
achievements tracked
35%
earned "Killed a treasure goblin!"
19.5%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam Trading CardsDualShock Controller SupportDualShock Controller SupportDualSense Controller SupportDualSense Controller SupportSteam Input API SupportPartial Controller SupportSteam Cloud

14 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Greek, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese…

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)7213%5
Switch (Nintendo)40%0

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

3DRPGDarkMagicActionDemonsZombiesSurvivalTop-DownAdventure

Census log

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

Players also track

Fate/Samurai Remnant

Similarity via IGDB.

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