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Overture

Black Shell Games · Plug In Digital · 2015-02-02

Steam

ActionAdventureCasualIndieRPGStrategy

Modes: Single player

Releases: Feb 02, 2015 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Overture is an action-adventure roguelike which draws heavy inspiration from hits such as Diablo, Realm of The Mad God, Zelda, and The Binding of Isaac. Explore vast randomly generated dungeons and slay hordes of cunning enemies!

0
playing now
75%
positive of 1.3k reviews
Mostly Positive
steam rating
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
60/100
IGDB user rating (2 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$4.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 03:00 UTC (census sample)

Overture is a roguelike adventure video game developed by Black Shell Games, a subsidiary of Black Shell Media LLC. The game was released on January 1, 2015 for Microsoft Windows. In the game, players select from one of 24 characters and travel throughout the game vanquishing enemies, collecting loot, and slaying monsters.

Health check

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  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 31% of 10,956 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 32k–76k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 1,260 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.37 at GamersGate (2021-06-18) · bundled 7×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $4.99 · on sale 6 of 7 observed days (census price snapshots)

Players online

202026-08-06 23:00 — 0 players2026-08-07 07:00 — 0 players2026-08-07 15:00 — 0 players2026-08-07 23:00 — 1 players2026-08-08 07:00 — 2 players2026-08-08 15:00 — 0 players2026-08-08 23:00 — 0 players2026-08-09 07:00 — 1 players2026-08-09 15:00 — 0 players2026-08-09 23:00 — 0 players2026-08-10 07:00 — 1 players2026-08-10 15:00 — 0 players2026-08-10 23:00 — 0 players2026-08-11 07:00 — 1 players2026-08-11 15:00 — 1 players2026-08-12 23:00 — 1 players2026-08-14 07:00 — 1 players2026-08-15 14:00 — 1 players2026-08-16 22:00 — 1 players2026-08-18 06:00 — 1 players2026-08-19 13:00 — 0 players2026-08-20 21:00 — 0 players2026-08-22 04:00 — 1 players2026-08-23 12:00 — 0 players2026-08-24 20:00 — 0 players2026-08-26 04:00 — 0 players2026-08-27 12:00 — 0 players2026-08-28 20:00 — 0 players2026-08-30 03:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$4.99$0.372015-01-062026-03-182015-01-06 — best price $4.992015-12-14 — best price $4.992016-04-15 — best price $2.492016-09-30 — best price $0.492017-02-23 — best price $0.502017-08-07 — best price $0.502018-02-20 — best price $4.992018-08-30 — best price $0.542019-09-12 — best price $4.992020-03-25 — best price $0.492020-06-16 — best price $4.082020-08-10 — best price $4.392020-10-01 — best price $4.992020-10-31 — best price $4.992021-01-05 — best price $4.992021-03-02 — best price $4.992021-04-05 — best price $4.392021-05-05 — best price $4.392021-06-04 — best price $4.392021-08-15 — best price $3.922021-12-11 — best price $4.992022-02-11 — best price $0.492022-06-14 — best price $3.892022-08-16 — best price $0.492022-11-23 — best price $0.402023-01-29 — best price $3.902023-03-24 — best price $4.992023-05-16 — best price $3.922023-07-27 — best price $0.892023-09-16 — best price $3.922023-11-06 — best price $0.742024-01-04 — best price $4.992024-07-11 — best price $4.992026-03-18 — best price $1.19
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

4
achievements tracked
2.2%
earned "Victorious Shaman"
2.2%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam Trading CardsCaptions availableFamily Sharing1 DLC

1 supported languages: English

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)28676%4

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

2DRPGLootIndieRetroActionCasualStrategyAdventureRogue-like

Census log

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

Players also track

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Similarity via IGDB.