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MANDAGON

Blind Sky Studios · 2016-08-03

Steam

AdventureIndieFree To Play

Modes: Single player

Releases: Aug 03, 2016 (Mac), Aug 03, 2016 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Explore Mandagon, a world inspired by Tibetan theology and philosophy. With a focus on life and death, discover what it means to make a true sacrifice . . .

MANDAGON is a free-to-play Adventure, Indie, and Free To Play game released in 2016, with an estimated 200,000 to 500,000 owners and an Overwhelmingly Positive review sentiment (95% of 5745 reviews).

1
playing now
95%
positive of 5.8k reviews
Overwhelmingly Positive
steam's rating (official)
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
64/100
IGDB user rating (20 ratings)
0.7h
to beat · completionist 1.2h
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
Free
steam price (US)

1 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 12:00 UTC (census sample)

Trailer

MANDAGON trailer thumbnail

Mandagon - Official Trailer

≈2,860 YouTube results for this game's trailer search

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 1 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 77 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~10/week).
  • · Review velocity down 10% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 5% of 28,739 Adventure games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-28

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
858520182026Week of 2018-01-01: 85 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2018-02-01: 57 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-03-01: 56 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2018-04-01: 54 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-05-01: 51 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 63 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-07-01: 56 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2018-08-01: 44 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-09-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-11-01: 40 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 29 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-02-01: 30 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-03-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 36 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-05-01: 53 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-06-01: 51 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 51 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-08-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-10-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 29 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2019-12-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2020-02-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2020-03-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 31 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 33 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 30 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 28 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 43 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 7 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

2002026-09-14 22:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 06:00 — 0 players2026-09-17 13:00 — 0 players2026-09-18 21:00 — 1 players2026-09-20 04:00 — 0 players2026-09-21 12:00 — 0 players2026-09-22 20:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 03:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 11:00 — 1 players2026-09-26 18:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 02:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 09:00 — 0 players2026-09-30 17:00 — 1 players2026-10-02 00:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 08:00 — 0 players2026-10-04 16:00 — 2 players2026-10-05 23:00 — 1 players2026-10-07 07:00 — 1 players2026-10-08 14:00 — 2 players2026-10-09 22:00 — 11 players2026-10-11 05:00 — 3 players2026-10-12 13:00 — 0 players2026-10-13 21:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 12:00 — 1 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Completion

5
achievements tracked
40.8%
earned "An Endless Prayer"
34.2%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSSingle-playerSteam AchievementsPartial Controller SupportFamily Sharing1 DLC

1 supported languages: English

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2016-09-08 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)7,10152%5

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

Where its players are

Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.

Player tags

2DIndieShortCasualMysteryRelaxingAdventureControllerPlatformerStory Rich

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.