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Monolith cover art

Monolith

Animation Arts · 2023-10-11

SteamGOG

AdventureIndie

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Side view

Releases: Oct 11, 2023 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Jun 13, 2024 (Nintendo Switch), Oct 11, 2023 (Linux)

A classical science fiction point and click adventure which takes you into a deep story and murky atmosphere, while solving logical puzzles. Accompany Tessa Carter and her talking robot as she finds out about herself and searches for a way to survive.

Monolith is an Adventure and Indie title released in 2023, priced at $14.99, with an estimated 20,000 to 50,000 owners and a Mostly Positive review sentiment (75% of 359 reviews).

4
playing now
75%
positive of 359 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
silver
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Verified
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$14.99
steam price (US)

4 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 22:00 UTC (census sample)

Tessa Carter, a space explorer in service of the Intergalactic Mining Corporation, was on a mission with her friend and pilot Mark and asleep in her cryo chamber when the ship came down on a foreign planet. She awoke when the incident was already over. With a small flying analysis robot called C.O.R.E. as her only companion, she must call for help or leave this planet in any other way. Between swamps and rocks she eventually finds an outpost of the Intergalactic Mining Corporation, which looks as if it was abandoned a long time ago. With ingenuity and persistence she tries to bring this place(Storyline via IGDB)

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 4 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 44 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~6/week).
  • · Review velocity down 20% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 22% of 28,914 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 7.2k–16k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 359 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

GOG$2.99-80%
Steam$2.99-80%
GOG$2.99-80%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $3.74 at Steam (2026-06-25) · bundled 1×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $14.99 · on sale 63 of 94 observed days · at its all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
565620232026Week of 2023-10-01: 56 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 2 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

502026-09-15 07:00 — 1 players2026-09-16 15:00 — 0 players2026-09-17 23:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 06:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 14:00 — 1 players2026-09-21 22:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 05:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 13:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 20:00 — 3 players2026-09-27 04:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 11:00 — 1 players2026-09-29 19:00 — 0 players2026-10-01 02:00 — 1 players2026-10-02 10:00 — 1 players2026-10-03 17:00 — 5 players2026-10-05 01:00 — 1 players2026-10-06 09:00 — 2 players2026-10-07 16:00 — 4 players2026-10-09 00:00 — 2 players2026-10-10 07:00 — 1 players2026-10-11 15:00 — 1 players2026-10-12 23:00 — 4 players2026-10-14 06:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 22:00 — 4 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
162Oct 2023Mar 2026Oct 2023 — avg 16 · peak 74Nov 2023 — avg 7 · peak 30Dec 2023 — avg 5 · peak 22Jan 2024 — avg 4 · peak 16Feb 2024 — avg 6 · peak 27Mar 2024 — avg 4 · peak 21Apr 2024 — avg 4 · peak 13May 2024 — avg 3 · peak 12Jul 2024 — avg 3 · peak 17Sep 2024 — avg 3 · peak 11Nov 2024 — avg 2 · peak 13Dec 2024 — avg 3 · peak 13Mar 2025 — avg 4 · peak 17Jul 2025 — avg 3 · peak 9Sep 2025 — avg 2 · peak 12Oct 2025 — avg 3 · peak 10Feb 2026 — avg 2 · peak 9Mar 2026 — avg 3 · peak 14
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$14.99$2.992023-10-112026-10-152023-10-11 — best price $14.992023-12-21 — best price $12.742024-02-21 — best price $14.992024-04-04 — best price $11.992024-06-19 — best price $10.492024-07-30 — best price $10.492024-10-08 — best price $14.992024-11-12 — best price $14.992024-12-04 — best price $14.992025-01-17 — best price $14.992025-03-09 — best price $14.992025-04-03 — best price $14.992025-05-07 — best price $7.492025-06-14 — best price $14.992025-07-28 — best price $14.992025-09-11 — best price $5.992025-10-07 — best price $5.992025-10-24 — best price $14.992025-11-25 — best price $5.992026-01-06 — best price $4.942026-02-22 — best price $4.492026-03-19 — best price $4.492026-04-15 — best price $4.492026-05-21 — best price $4.492026-06-25 — best price $3.742026-08-09 — best price $14.992026-08-29 — best price $3.752026-09-03 — best price $3.752026-09-08 — best price $3.752026-09-13 — best price $14.992026-09-18 — best price $3.752026-09-23 — best price $3.752026-09-28 — best price $3.752026-10-03 — best price $3.752026-10-08 — best price $14.992026-10-13 — best price $2.992026-10-15 — best price $2.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

14
achievements tracked
41.7%
earned "I don't want to starve."
11.3%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsLinuxSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFamily Sharing1 DLC

1 supported languages: English

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2024-04-02 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)10625%14
Switch (Nintendo)20%0

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

Player tags

2.5DSpaceRobotsSci-fiMysteryAdventureEmotionalFuturisticHand-drawnStory Rich

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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