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Necrosmith

Alawar · 2022-07-13

SteamGOGPlayStation StoreEpic Games Store

AdventureIndieSimulationStrategy

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Bird view / Isometric

Releases: Jul 13, 2022 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Jul 06, 2023 (Nintendo Switch), Jul 06, 2023 (PlayStation 5)

A necromancer simulator. Assemble the dead using different body parts while upgrading your tower, combine the abilities of the different fantastic races to fight your way through the hordes of enemies and overrun the ’chosen ones’. To tell the truth, the dead are pretty, uhm, dumb.

Necrosmith is an Adventure, Indie, Simulation, and Strategy game released in 2022, priced at $2.99, with an estimated 500,000 .. 1,000,000 owners and a Very Positive review sentiment (86% of 5348 reviews).

4
playing now
86%
positive of 5.4k reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
500,000–1,000,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
75/100
IGDB user rating (8 ratings)
3.00★
PlayStation Store rating (80 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$2.99
steam price (US)

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

Assemble the Dead: Skeletons, zombies, orcs, harpies, elementals, and even robots! Combine the body parts with the appropriate characteristics and attacks to find the perfect combination of survivability, speed, and combat power. Upgrade Your Tower: Build necro labs to grow body parts and make techno-magic devices to upgrade your army of the dead. Explore the World: Guide your hordes of the undead through more than a dozen biomes to find the keys to escape from this strange world.(Storyline via IGDB)

Trailer

Necrosmith trailer thumbnail

Necrosmith - Official Release Date Trailer | Summer of Gaming 2022

≈7,043 YouTube results for this game's trailer search

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 4 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 127 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~16/week).
  • · Review velocity down 25% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (1,807 reviews).
  • · Top 5% of 28,692 Adventure games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-27

Estimated sales: 107k–241k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 5,366 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

GOG$1.19-60%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $0.74 at Fanatical (2025-11-21) · bundled 2×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $2.99 · on sale 132 of 186 observed days · $0.45 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
1.5k1.5k20222026Week of 2022-07-01: 1,523 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 284 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 292 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 53 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 227 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 46 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 186 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 20 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 569 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 26 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 83 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 17 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 82 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 49 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 68 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 18 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 101 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 21 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 63 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 132 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 22 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 67 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 16 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 65 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 64 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 32 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 17 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 57 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 35 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 30 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 47 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 73 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 23 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 36 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 32 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 29 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 3 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

2612026-09-14 21:00 — 10 players2026-09-16 05:00 — 1 players2026-09-17 13:00 — 10 players2026-09-18 20:00 — 17 players2026-09-20 04:00 — 7 players2026-09-21 11:00 — 10 players2026-09-22 19:00 — 12 players2026-09-24 02:00 — 14 players2026-09-25 10:00 — 12 players2026-09-26 17:00 — 26 players2026-09-28 01:00 — 7 players2026-09-29 08:00 — 10 players2026-09-30 16:00 — 11 players2026-10-01 23:00 — 5 players2026-10-03 07:00 — 10 players2026-10-04 15:00 — 9 players2026-10-05 23:00 — 9 players2026-10-07 06:00 — 9 players2026-10-08 14:00 — 9 players2026-10-09 21:00 — 2 players2026-10-11 05:00 — 7 players2026-10-12 12:00 — 3 players2026-10-13 20:00 — 2 players2026-10-14 12:00 — 4 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
1.6k7Jul 2022Aug 2026Jul 2022 — avg 1,613 · peak 4,475Sep 2022 — avg 166 · peak 895Nov 2022 — avg 99 · peak 227Jan 2023 — avg 53 · peak 132Mar 2023 — avg 54 · peak 128May 2023 — avg 55 · peak 136Jul 2023 — avg 60 · peak 146Sep 2023 — avg 63 · peak 143Nov 2023 — avg 37 · peak 96Jan 2024 — avg 32 · peak 72Mar 2024 — avg 78 · peak 423May 2024 — avg 20 · peak 54Jul 2024 — avg 20 · peak 55Sep 2024 — avg 22 · peak 60Nov 2024 — avg 22 · peak 55Jan 2025 — avg 17 · peak 43Mar 2025 — avg 14 · peak 40May 2025 — avg 15 · peak 49Jul 2025 — avg 17 · peak 37Sep 2025 — avg 12 · peak 31Nov 2025 — avg 20 · peak 54Jan 2026 — avg 12 · peak 31Mar 2026 — avg 21 · peak 71May 2026 — avg 7 · peak 19Jul 2026 — avg 8 · peak 22Aug 2026 — avg 11 · peak 250
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$99.99$0.742022-06-172026-10-142022-06-17 — best price $99.992022-08-18 — best price $2.602022-10-26 — best price $1.862022-12-04 — best price $2.292023-01-20 — best price $1.742023-03-19 — best price $2.992023-05-05 — best price $1.792023-06-24 — best price $2.992023-08-07 — best price $1.942023-10-09 — best price $2.992023-11-29 — best price $2.992024-01-30 — best price $2.192024-03-28 — best price $2.992024-05-19 — best price $2.192024-07-05 — best price $1.492024-08-14 — best price $2.992024-10-21 — best price $1.192024-12-06 — best price $1.202025-01-23 — best price $1.192025-03-26 — best price $1.192025-05-21 — best price $1.042025-07-15 — best price $1.042025-09-01 — best price $1.142025-10-09 — best price $1.042025-11-24 — best price $1.042026-01-12 — best price $0.782026-03-03 — best price $2.292026-04-15 — best price $0.742026-05-28 — best price $2.992026-07-16 — best price $0.962026-08-28 — best price $1.192026-09-17 — best price $1.192026-10-07 — best price $2.992026-10-14 — best price $1.19
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

30
achievements tracked
92.8%
earned "Herogasm"
49.3%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam Trading CardsSteam CloudFamily Sharing1 DLC

10 supported languages: Russian, English, Simplified Chinese, French, German, Portuguese - Brazil, Korean, Polish, Japanese, Spanish - Spain

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2022-07-29 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)7,35111%30
PS5 (PlayStation)18220%31
Switch (Nintendo)120%0

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

2DMagicVampireZombiesStrategyTop-DownOld SchoolRogue-likeRogue-liteSimulation

Census log

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

Recent updates

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