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Necrosmith

Alawar · 2022-07-13

SteamGOGPlayStation StoreEpic Games Store

AdventureIndieSimulationStrategy

Modes: Single player

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.

7
playing now
86%
positive of 5.3k reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
500,000–1,000,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
75/100
IGDB user rating (8 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$2.99
steam price (US)

7 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 02:00 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)

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 7 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 12% of 11,312 Adventure games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-27

Estimated sales: 107k–241k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 5,348 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

GOG$1.19-60%
lowest across shops (ITAD)$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 108 of 163 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

14422026-08-06 22:00 — 4 players2026-08-07 06:00 — 4 players2026-08-07 14:00 — 11 players2026-08-07 22:00 — 6 players2026-08-08 06:00 — 7 players2026-08-08 14:00 — 3 players2026-08-08 22:00 — 8 players2026-08-09 06:00 — 5 players2026-08-09 14:00 — 12 players2026-08-09 22:00 — 9 players2026-08-10 06:00 — 7 players2026-08-10 15:00 — 9 players2026-08-10 23:00 — 5 players2026-08-11 07:00 — 4 players2026-08-11 15:00 — 10 players2026-08-12 22:00 — 3 players2026-08-14 06:00 — 5 players2026-08-15 14:00 — 4 players2026-08-16 22:00 — 10 players2026-08-18 05:00 — 2 players2026-08-19 13:00 — 8 players2026-08-20 20:00 — 7 players2026-08-22 04:00 — 3 players2026-08-23 11:00 — 7 players2026-08-24 19:00 — 8 players2026-08-26 03:00 — 3 players2026-08-27 10:00 — 3 players2026-08-28 18:00 — 5 players2026-08-30 02:00 — 7 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$99.99$0.742022-06-172026-08-302022-06-17 — best price $99.992022-08-02 — best price $1.222022-09-26 — best price $2.242022-11-04 — best price $2.992022-12-13 — best price $1.792023-01-20 — best price $1.742023-03-09 — best price $1.792023-04-18 — best price $2.192023-05-26 — best price $1.752023-06-29 — best price $1.792023-08-07 — best price $1.942023-09-26 — best price $1.942023-11-13 — best price $1.792023-12-21 — best price $1.792024-02-08 — best price $1.792024-03-28 — best price $2.992024-05-06 — best price $2.992024-06-07 — best price $2.292024-07-26 — best price $1.502024-08-26 — best price $1.342024-10-21 — best price $1.192024-12-02 — best price $2.992025-01-09 — best price $2.992025-02-24 — best price $0.902025-04-09 — best price $2.992025-05-21 — best price $1.042025-07-07 — best price $2.992025-08-09 — best price $2.992025-09-17 — best price $2.992025-10-24 — best price $2.192025-11-24 — best price $1.042026-01-06 — best price $2.192026-02-11 — best price $0.892026-03-22 — best price $2.992026-04-22 — best price $2.992026-05-28 — best price $2.992026-07-10 — best price $1.192026-08-10 — best price $1.882026-08-30 — 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

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.

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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