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Ori and the Blind Forest: Definitive Edition

Moon Studios GmbH · Xbox Game Studios · 2016-04-27

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Action

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Side view

Releases: Mar 11, 2016 (Xbox One), Apr 27, 2016 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Sep 27, 2019 (Nintendo Switch)

“Ori and the Blind Forest” tells the tale of a young orphan destined for heroics, through a visually stunning Action-Platformer crafted by Moon Studios.

Ori and the Blind Forest: Definitive Edition is a $19.99 Action game released in 2016, with an estimated 2,000,000 .. 5,000,000 owners and an Overwhelmingly Positive review sentiment (95% of 71517 reviews).

540
playing now
95%
positive of 72k reviews
Overwhelmingly Positive
steam's rating (official)
2,000,000–5,000,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
23
twitch viewers (latest)
4.6
viewers/channel (concentration)
86/100
critic score (7 outlets, IGDB)
86/100
IGDB user rating (314 ratings)
88/100
opencritic · mighty · 93% recommend · from 46 critics
13h
to beat · rushed 9h · completionist 17h
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Verified
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$19.99
steam price (US)

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

The forest of Nibel is dying. After a powerful storm sets a series of devastating events in motion, Ori must journey to find courage and confront a dark nemesis to save the forest of Nibel. “Ori and the Blind Forest” tells the tale of a young orphan destined for heroics, through a visually stunning Action-Platformer crafted by Moon Studios. Featuring hand-painted artwork, meticulously animated character performance, a fully orchestrated score and dozens of new features in the Definitive Edition, “Ori and the Blind Forest” explores a deeply emotional story about love and sacrifice, and the hope(Storyline via IGDB)

Trailer

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Health check

Healthy
  • · 540 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 2,267 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~283/week).
  • · Review velocity down 14% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 2% of 27,649 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-29

Estimated sales: 1.8M–4.3M copies

Review-multiple estimate from 72,187 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

Steam$4.99-75%
GOG$19.99
Microsoft Store$19.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $2.48 at WinGameStore (2023-11-25) · bundled 1×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $19.99 · on sale 93 of 149 observed days · $17.51 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
3.4k3.4k20182026Week of 2018-03-01: 203 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2018-04-01: 204 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2018-05-01: 218 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2018-06-01: 612 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 40 negativeWeek of 2018-07-01: 474 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 29 negativeWeek of 2018-08-01: 200 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2018-09-01: 132 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2018-10-01: 111 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2018-11-01: 832 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2018-12-01: 268 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2019-01-01: 275 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2019-02-01: 200 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2019-03-01: 140 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2019-04-01: 87 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2019-05-01: 121 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2019-06-01: 668 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 864 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 30 negativeWeek of 2019-08-01: 137 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2019-09-01: 105 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2019-10-01: 100 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2019-11-01: 642 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 18 negativeWeek of 2019-12-01: 1,196 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 27 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 816 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 36 negativeWeek of 2020-02-01: 1,334 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 60 negativeWeek of 2020-03-01: 3,381 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 131 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 2,419 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 96 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 833 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 39 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 1,337 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 54 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 1,533 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 74 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 755 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 35 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 718 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 40 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 796 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 44 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 1,183 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 37 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 1,498 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 64 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 1,457 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 58 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 1,146 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 61 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 820 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 37 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 788 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 40 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 715 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 37 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 559 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 44 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 663 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 39 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 590 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 37 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 424 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 19 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 568 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 56 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 712 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 39 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 652 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 50 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 714 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 54 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 489 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 35 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 332 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 25 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 468 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 33 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 357 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 422 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 32 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 487 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 46 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 434 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 39 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 347 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 30 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 290 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 36 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 408 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 23 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 438 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 30 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 503 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 36 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 344 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 30 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 597 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 55 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 521 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 39 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 449 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 40 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 347 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 26 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 436 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 39 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 248 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 19 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 281 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 24 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 334 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 35 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 313 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 23 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 407 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 37 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 377 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 30 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 437 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 36 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 405 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 40 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 360 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 50 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 345 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 34 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 356 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 33 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 358 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 30 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 216 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 19 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 259 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 19 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 233 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 18 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 185 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 19 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 345 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 27 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 355 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 31 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 283 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 24 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 476 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 39 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 269 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 46 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 451 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 39 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 382 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 24 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 350 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 34 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 231 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 30 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 235 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 285 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 38 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 228 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 33 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 354 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 26 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 341 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 34 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 222 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 20 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 232 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 22 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 273 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 23 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 244 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 26 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 322 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 34 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 355 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 38 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 192 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2026-09-01: 226 positiveWeek of 2026-09-01: 23 negativeWeek of 2026-10-01: 352 positiveWeek of 2026-10-01: 36 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

2.2k1412026-09-15 11:00 — 259 players2026-09-16 20:00 — 258 players2026-09-18 03:00 — 149 players2026-09-19 11:00 — 272 players2026-09-20 18:00 — 331 players2026-09-22 02:00 — 161 players2026-09-23 09:00 — 168 players2026-09-24 17:00 — 281 players2026-09-26 00:00 — 437 players2026-09-27 08:00 — 807 players2026-09-28 15:00 — 1,120 players2026-09-29 23:00 — 687 players2026-10-01 06:00 — 632 players2026-10-02 14:00 — 1,474 players2026-10-03 22:00 — 1,576 players2026-10-05 06:00 — 876 players2026-10-06 13:00 — 1,506 players2026-10-07 21:00 — 1,466 players2026-10-09 04:00 — 803 players2026-10-10 12:00 — 1,407 players2026-10-11 19:00 — 1,410 players2026-10-13 03:00 — 629 players2026-10-14 10:00 — 540 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
2.0k121May 2016Aug 2026May 2016 — avg 329 · peak 1,389Sep 2016 — avg 121 · peak 253Jan 2017 — avg 548 · peak 1,783May 2017 — avg 172 · peak 316Sep 2017 — avg 249 · peak 521Jan 2018 — avg 396 · peak 1,074May 2018 — avg 229 · peak 511Sep 2018 — avg 210 · peak 444Jan 2019 — avg 320 · peak 812May 2019 — avg 163 · peak 308Sep 2019 — avg 192 · peak 373Jan 2020 — avg 420 · peak 1,003May 2020 — avg 520 · peak 1,053Sep 2020 — avg 430 · peak 1,125Jan 2021 — avg 773 · peak 1,807May 2021 — avg 413 · peak 788Sep 2021 — avg 322 · peak 580Jan 2022 — avg 502 · peak 994May 2022 — avg 297 · peak 572Sep 2022 — avg 327 · peak 683Jan 2023 — avg 420 · peak 715May 2023 — avg 371 · peak 957Sep 2023 — avg 308 · peak 945Jan 2024 — avg 381 · peak 755May 2024 — avg 327 · peak 915Sep 2024 — avg 264 · peak 712Jan 2025 — avg 389 · peak 855May 2025 — avg 391 · peak 955Sep 2025 — avg 309 · peak 643Jan 2026 — avg 344 · peak 686May 2026 — avg 255 · peak 528Aug 2026 — avg 256 · peak 567
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Chart history

PositiveNegative
72722026-09-222026-10-142026-09-22: 34 new positive2026-09-24: 1 new positive2026-09-24: 1 new negative2026-09-25: 8 new positive2026-09-27: 15 new positive2026-09-27: 1 new negative2026-09-28: 22 new positive2026-09-28: 1 new negative2026-09-29: 21 new positive2026-09-29: 1 new negative2026-09-30: 24 new positive2026-09-30: 3 new negative2026-10-01: 30 new positive2026-10-01: 5 new negative2026-10-02: 19 new positive2026-10-02: 4 new negative2026-10-03: 44 new positive2026-10-03: 6 new negative2026-10-05: 35 new positive2026-10-05: 5 new negative2026-10-06: 27 new positive2026-10-06: 2 new negative2026-10-07: 72 new positive2026-10-07: 5 new negative2026-10-08: 34 new positive2026-10-08: 2 new negative2026-10-09: 34 new positive2026-10-09: 3 new negative2026-10-10: 46 new positive2026-10-10: 2 new negative2026-10-11: 37 new positive2026-10-11: 3 new negative2026-10-12: 20 new positive2026-10-12: 3 new negative2026-10-13: 30 new positive2026-10-13: 2 new negative2026-10-14: 25 new positive2026-10-14: 2 new negative
New Steam reviews per day (census review snapshots). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$22.04$2.492016-04-272026-10-142016-04-27 — best price $19.992016-11-24 — best price $9.792017-01-09 — best price $9.992017-04-11 — best price $9.992017-07-05 — best price $19.992017-09-20 — best price $10.002017-11-30 — best price $9.992018-02-16 — best price $19.992018-05-15 — best price $19.992018-07-08 — best price $17.992018-09-20 — best price $9.992018-12-03 — best price $8.942019-01-25 — best price $15.992019-04-07 — best price $8.992019-06-25 — best price $9.992019-08-22 — best price $9.992019-11-09 — best price $17.992019-12-27 — best price $19.992020-02-12 — best price $21.822020-04-19 — best price $14.062020-07-03 — best price $17.992020-10-07 — best price $9.992020-12-17 — best price $4.992021-04-08 — best price $2.492022-11-15 — best price $4.042023-07-04 — best price $19.992024-03-16 — best price $19.992024-06-18 — best price $19.992024-09-09 — best price $19.992024-12-26 — best price $3.992025-03-31 — best price $6.602025-06-24 — best price $19.992025-10-07 — best price $6.592025-12-06 — best price $19.992026-02-23 — best price $14.992026-05-11 — best price $19.992026-07-31 — best price $4.132026-09-16 — best price $19.992026-10-11 — best price $19.992026-10-14 — best price $19.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Twitch viewers

2602026-09-30 21:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-01 06:34 — 20 viewers2026-10-01 15:34 — 4 viewers2026-10-02 00:34 — 1 viewers2026-10-02 09:34 — 5 viewers2026-10-02 18:34 — 7 viewers2026-10-03 03:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-03 12:34 — 1 viewers2026-10-03 21:34 — 12 viewers2026-10-04 06:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-04 15:34 — 15 viewers2026-10-05 00:34 — 5 viewers2026-10-05 09:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-05 18:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-06 03:34 — 4 viewers2026-10-06 12:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-06 21:34 — 21 viewers2026-10-07 06:34 — 3 viewers2026-10-07 15:34 — 1 viewers2026-10-08 00:34 — 3 viewers2026-10-08 09:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-08 18:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-09 03:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-09 12:34 — 11 viewers2026-10-09 21:34 — 8 viewers2026-10-10 06:34 — 4 viewers2026-10-10 15:34 — 25 viewers2026-10-11 00:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-11 09:34 — 7 viewers2026-10-11 18:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-12 03:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-12 12:34 — 6 viewers2026-10-12 21:34 — 6 viewers2026-10-13 06:34 — 1 viewers2026-10-13 15:34 — 16 viewers2026-10-14 00:34 — 4 viewers2026-10-14 09:34 — 2 viewers2026-10-14 18:34 — 4 viewers2026-10-14 20:34 — 23 viewers
Hourly Twitch viewers (census snapshots).

Completion

57
achievements tracked
87.9%
earned "So Many Secrets"
30.7%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam CloudStatsRemote Play on PhoneRemote Play on TabletRemote Play on TVFamily Sharing2 DLC

8 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Russian, Portuguese - Brazil

Post-launch support: 2 DLC released, first 2016-04-27 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Xbox One, Windows (Xbox)69,8631%57
Steam (Steam)62,9533%57
Switch (Nintendo)1,8190%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

2DCuteIndieActionPuzzleFantasyAdventureDifficultPlatformerStory Rich

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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