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Ortus Arena, strategy board game online, FOR FREE

Firebrush Studios · Plug In Digital · 2016-09-28

Steam

CasualIndieStrategy

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer

Releases: Sep 28, 2016 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Sep 28, 2016 (Mac)

You are a cunning warlord, craving for intensive short mental combats and becoming the best. Enter this online multiplayer strategy board game: a 1vs1 turn based resource game that is easy to understand, but complex to master. NOW FOR FREE!

Ortus Arena, strategy board game online, FOR FREE is a Casual, Indie, and Strategy game released in 2016, estimated to have 20,000 .. 50,000 owners, priced as free-to-play, with Mixed (60% of 55 reviews) sentiment.

0
playing now
60%
positive of 55 reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
Free
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-15 01:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 9 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity up 0% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 44% of 29,354 Casual games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-02

All-time low: $4.29 at Steam (2017-11-22)via IsThereAnyDeal

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
6620162026Week of 2016-09-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2016-10-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2017-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2018-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

002026-09-16 02:00 — 0 players2026-09-17 09:00 — 0 players2026-09-18 17:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 01:00 — 0 players2026-09-21 08:00 — 0 players2026-09-22 16:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 23:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 07:00 — 0 players2026-09-26 14:00 — 0 players2026-09-27 22:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 05:00 — 0 players2026-09-30 13:00 — 0 players2026-10-01 20:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 04:00 — 0 players2026-10-04 12:00 — 0 players2026-10-05 20:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 03:00 — 0 players2026-10-08 11:00 — 0 players2026-10-09 18:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 02:00 — 0 players2026-10-12 10:00 — 0 players2026-10-13 17:00 — 0 players2026-10-15 01:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$9.99$0.002016-09-282018-04-302016-09-28 — best price $8.992016-10-05 — best price $9.992016-11-23 — best price $8.492016-11-29 — best price $9.992016-12-22 — best price $8.492017-01-02 — best price $9.992017-06-22 — best price $4.992017-07-05 — best price $9.992017-11-22 — best price $4.292017-11-28 — best price $9.992017-12-21 — best price $4.292018-01-04 — best price $9.992018-04-30 — best price $0.00
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

12
achievements tracked
64.3%
earned "Peasant"
13.9%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerMulti-playerPvPOnline PvPCross-Platform MultiplayerSteam AchievementsFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Player tags

IndieCasualAbstractStrategyTabletopTacticalBoard GameFree to PlayResource Management

Census log

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

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