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Nox Archaist cover art

Nox Archaist

6502 Workshop · 2021-01-28

SteamGOG

RPG

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Bird view / Isometric

Releases: Dec 12, 2020 (Apple II), Dec 12, 2020 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Dec 12, 2020 (Mac)

An 8-bit RPG modeled after the iconic games of the 1980s. You control a party of adventurers who travel the Realm, talk to NPCs in towns and castles, explore dungeons, and fight monsters as you seek to save the world from a terrible danger.

86%
positive of 64 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$19.99
steam price (US)
Nox Archaist is a role-playing video game released in December 2020 for the then-historical platform Apple II, alongside contemporary macOS and Windows systems. The game was inspired by the early-to-mid Ultima games and The Bard's Tale. The story unfolds in a sword and sorcery setting of a world named Vali: Sent to an island region to investigate a cult, the player character finds companions and undertakes excursions across diverse terrain, encountering NPCs, monsters, and magical hazards along the way. A DLC named Lord of Storms was released in 2023.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 10 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 37% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 65% of 9,829 RPG games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 1.3k–2.9k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 64 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

GOG$1.99-90%
GOG$19.99
lowest across shops (ITAD)$19.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $1.99 at GOG (2024-12-12)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $19.99 · on sale 30 of 48 observed days · $18.00 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
101020212026Week of 2021-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-09-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$24.99$1.992021-01-282026-09-222021-01-28 — best price $19.992021-04-01 — best price $24.992021-06-28 — best price $24.992021-10-28 — best price $15.992022-01-05 — best price $19.992022-06-28 — best price $19.992022-11-30 — best price $7.992023-01-05 — best price $19.992023-03-07 — best price $19.992023-05-01 — best price $12.992023-07-13 — best price $19.992023-08-28 — best price $7.992023-11-21 — best price $7.992024-01-04 — best price $19.992024-02-06 — best price $7.992024-03-14 — best price $7.992024-04-26 — best price $7.992024-06-17 — best price $19.992024-07-26 — best price $19.992024-09-17 — best price $7.992024-10-17 — best price $4.992024-11-27 — best price $4.992025-01-11 — best price $19.992025-03-06 — best price $4.992025-04-03 — best price $4.992025-05-16 — best price $19.992025-06-18 — best price $1.992025-08-01 — best price $4.992025-09-11 — best price $19.992025-10-06 — best price $19.992025-10-28 — best price $1.992025-12-03 — best price $4.992026-01-08 — best price $4.992026-03-09 — best price $4.992026-04-03 — best price $4.992026-05-31 — best price $19.992026-07-09 — best price $4.992026-08-23 — best price $19.992026-09-22 — best price $19.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

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Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsmacOSSingle-playerFamily Sharing4 DLC

Player tags

2DRPGCRPGIndieDragonsFantasyTop-DownAdventureOld SchoolOpen World

Census log

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

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