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NEStalgia

Silk Games · 2014-04-15

Steam

IndieMassively MultiplayerRPG

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative, Massively Multiplayer Online (MMO)

Releases: Mar 02, 2014 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

NEStalgia is an original MORPG inspired by the glory days of traditional console RPGs. Essentially "Dragon Warrior 3 meets World of Warcraft", NEStalgia is an amalgam of the best generations of RPG gaming. You can play solo, in private games with friends, or online with hundreds of other players!

NEStalgia is an Indie, Massively Multiplayer, and RPG game released in 2014, with an estimated 50,000 to 100,000 owners and a Mixed sentiment from 62% of 368 reviews.

1
playing now
62%
positive of 368 reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
60/100
IGDB user rating (2 ratings)
borked
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)

1 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 18:00 UTC (census sample)

NEStalgia was a massively multiplayer online role-playing game for Microsoft Windows created by American indie developer Silk Games. NEStalgia was launched on February 23, 2011, then released for Steam on April 15, 2014. The core gameplay follows the classic Japanese role-playing game format with turn-based battles, random encounters, and explorable towns and dungeons.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 1 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 6 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 33% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 19% of 49,790 Indie games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-01

Estimated sales: 9.2k–22k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 368 total reviews — how this is computed.

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
8820142026Week of 2014-12-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2014-12-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2015-01-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2015-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2015-02-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2015-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2015-06-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2015-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2015-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2015-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2015-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2015-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-01-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2016-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2016-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2016-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2016-06-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2016-07-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2016-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2016-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2016-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2016-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-06-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2017-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2018-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

102026-09-15 04:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 12:00 — 0 players2026-09-17 19:00 — 1 players2026-09-19 03:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 10:00 — 0 players2026-09-21 18:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 02:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 09:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 17:00 — 0 players2026-09-27 00:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 08:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 15:00 — 0 players2026-09-30 23:00 — 1 players2026-10-02 06:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 14:00 — 0 players2026-10-04 22:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 05:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 13:00 — 0 players2026-10-08 20:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 04:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 11:00 — 0 players2026-10-12 19:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 03:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 18:00 — 1 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$29.99$3.492015-01-012018-07-052015-01-01 — best price $7.492015-01-02 — best price $14.992015-06-11 — best price $4.492015-06-22 — best price $14.992015-09-17 — best price $3.752015-09-24 — best price $14.992015-11-25 — best price $4.492015-12-01 — best price $14.992015-12-22 — best price $4.492016-01-04 — best price $14.992016-02-05 — best price $4.492016-02-12 — best price $14.992016-06-23 — best price $5.992016-07-04 — best price $14.992016-07-07 — best price $29.992016-07-08 — best price $14.992016-07-09 — best price $14.992016-07-10 — best price $14.992016-07-13 — best price $29.992016-07-14 — best price $14.992016-11-23 — best price $3.742016-11-29 — best price $14.992016-12-22 — best price $3.742017-01-02 — best price $14.992017-01-09 — best price $9.992017-06-23 — best price $3.492017-07-05 — best price $9.992017-11-22 — best price $3.992017-11-28 — best price $9.992017-12-21 — best price $3.992018-01-04 — best price $9.992018-06-21 — best price $3.992018-07-05 — best price $9.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

1002026-05-29 — 3 pageviews2026-06-02 — 5 pageviews2026-06-06 — 3 pageviews2026-06-10 — 6 pageviews2026-06-14 — 4 pageviews2026-06-18 — 5 pageviews2026-06-22 — 1 pageviews2026-06-26 — 10 pageviews2026-06-30 — 3 pageviews2026-07-04 — 4 pageviews2026-07-08 — 2 pageviews2026-07-12 — 4 pageviews2026-07-16 — 0 pageviews2026-07-20 — 5 pageviews2026-07-24 — 5 pageviews2026-07-28 — 1 pageviews2026-08-01 — 4 pageviews2026-08-05 — 3 pageviews2026-08-09 — 2 pageviews2026-08-13 — 3 pageviews2026-08-17 — 2 pageviews2026-08-21 — 3 pageviews2026-08-25 — 4 pageviews2026-08-29 — 0 pageviews2026-09-02 — 2 pageviews2026-09-06 — 2 pageviews2026-09-10 — 3 pageviews2026-09-14 — 3 pageviews2026-09-18 — 5 pageviews2026-09-22 — 2 pageviews2026-09-26 — 2 pageviews2026-09-30 — 2 pageviews2026-10-04 — 5 pageviews2026-10-07 — 2 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerMulti-playerMMOCo-opOnline Co-opFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Player tags

RPGJRPGIndieRetroAdventureTurn-BasedMultiplayerOnline Co-OpPixel GraphicsMassively Multiplayer

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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