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Pillars of Eternity

Obsidian Entertainment · Xbox Game Studios · 2015-03-26

SteamGOG

RPG

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Bird view / Isometric

Releases: Mar 26, 2015 (Linux), Aug 08, 2019 (Nintendo Switch), Apr 08, 2022 (Mac), Aug 29, 2017 (Xbox One), Mar 26, 2015 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Aug 29, 2017 (PlayStation 4)

Prepare to be enchanted by a world where the choices you make and the paths you choose shape your destiny. Obsidian Entertainment, the developer of Fallout: New Vegas™ and South Park: The Stick of Truth™, together with Paradox Interactive is proud to present Pillars of Eternity.

Pillars of Eternity is a 2015 RPG game priced at $29.99, with a Very Positive sentiment (88% of 26146 reviews) and an owner estimate of 1,000,000 .. 2,000,000.

231
playing now
88%
positive of 26k reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
1,000,000–2,000,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
2
twitch viewers (latest)
2.0
viewers/channel (concentration)
81/100
critic score (6 outlets, IGDB)
81/100
IGDB user rating (319 ratings)
393
Nexus mods (1.3M downloads)
89/100
opencritic · mighty · 97% recommend · from 71 critics
60h
to beat · rushed 34h · completionist 87h
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$29.99
steam price (US)

231 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 11:00 UTC (census sample)

Pillars of Eternity is a 2015 role-playing video game developed by Obsidian Entertainment and published by Paradox Interactive for Windows, OS X, and Linux. The game is a spiritual successor to the Baldur's Gate and Icewind Dale series, along with Planescape: Torment. Obsidian started a crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter for it in September 2012, raising over US$4 million. The game uses the Unity engine.

Trailer

Pillars of Eternity trailer thumbnail

Pillars of Eternity: Complete Edition - Launch Trailer

≈396,327 YouTube results for this game's trailer search

Health check

Healthy
  • · 231 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 686 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~86/week).
  • · Review velocity up 16% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 2% of 13,891 RPG games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 655k–1.6M copies

Review-multiple estimate from 26,185 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $5.95 at MacGameStore (2020-11-28) · bundled 5×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $39.99 · on sale 26 of 41 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
24924920182026Week of 2018-01-01: 90 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 21 negativeWeek of 2018-02-01: 65 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 17 negativeWeek of 2018-03-01: 58 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2018-04-01: 66 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2018-05-01: 121 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 25 negativeWeek of 2018-06-01: 79 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 16 negativeWeek of 2018-07-01: 62 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 30 negativeWeek of 2018-08-01: 33 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2018-09-01: 48 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2018-10-01: 42 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2018-11-01: 131 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 19 negativeWeek of 2018-12-01: 63 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2019-01-01: 40 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2019-02-01: 37 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 16 negativeWeek of 2019-03-01: 44 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2019-04-01: 39 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2019-05-01: 48 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2019-06-01: 186 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 169 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2019-08-01: 52 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2019-09-01: 32 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2019-10-01: 44 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2019-11-01: 249 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2019-12-01: 225 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 17 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 193 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2020-02-01: 168 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2020-03-01: 185 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 17 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 200 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 206 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 17 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 119 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 17 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 223 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 16 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 146 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 17 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 118 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 18 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 161 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 18 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 181 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 27 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 157 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 23 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 186 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 20 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 129 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 133 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 17 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 88 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 90 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 19 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 76 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 108 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 106 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 21 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 91 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 70 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 97 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 17 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 86 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 129 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 65 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 19 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 84 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 85 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 90 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 18 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 83 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 119 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 75 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 94 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 76 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 98 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 82 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 71 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 65 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 72 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 77 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 81 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 66 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 99 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 79 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 61 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 80 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 64 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 74 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 82 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 61 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 51 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 58 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 70 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 81 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 67 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 19 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 56 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 67 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 49 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 84 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 103 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 18 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 102 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 126 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 119 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 19 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 82 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 66 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 66 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 78 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 59 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 42 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 58 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 81 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 74 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 66 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 53 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 62 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 123 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 23 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 85 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 56 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 80 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 35 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 7 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

5251522026-09-15 12:00 — 221 players2026-09-16 20:00 — 368 players2026-09-18 03:00 — 195 players2026-09-19 11:00 — 278 players2026-09-20 18:00 — 482 players2026-09-22 02:00 — 226 players2026-09-23 10:00 — 223 players2026-09-24 17:00 — 330 players2026-09-26 01:00 — 276 players2026-09-27 08:00 — 269 players2026-09-28 16:00 — 333 players2026-09-29 23:00 — 250 players2026-10-01 07:00 — 188 players2026-10-02 14:00 — 346 players2026-10-03 22:00 — 380 players2026-10-05 06:00 — 191 players2026-10-06 13:00 — 328 players2026-10-07 21:00 — 332 players2026-10-09 04:00 — 178 players2026-10-10 12:00 — 317 players2026-10-11 20:00 — 525 players2026-10-13 03:00 — 271 players2026-10-14 11:00 — 231 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
9.9k238Apr 2015Aug 2026Apr 2015 — avg 9,903 · peak 30,122Aug 2015 — avg 1,738 · peak 5,917Dec 2015 — avg 1,643 · peak 4,741Apr 2016 — avg 1,261 · peak 3,051Aug 2016 — avg 1,008 · peak 1,996Dec 2016 — avg 1,313 · peak 2,801Apr 2017 — avg 1,128 · peak 2,554Aug 2017 — avg 1,140 · peak 2,411Dec 2017 — avg 1,080 · peak 2,118Apr 2018 — avg 1,579 · peak 3,568Aug 2018 — avg 1,019 · peak 2,117Dec 2018 — avg 1,044 · peak 2,270Apr 2019 — avg 716 · peak 1,497Aug 2019 — avg 1,004 · peak 2,778Dec 2019 — avg 752 · peak 1,492Apr 2020 — avg 984 · peak 1,940Aug 2020 — avg 851 · peak 1,822Dec 2020 — avg 694 · peak 1,437Apr 2021 — avg 543 · peak 1,038Aug 2021 — avg 562 · peak 1,017Dec 2021 — avg 464 · peak 891Apr 2022 — avg 437 · peak 859Aug 2022 — avg 484 · peak 948Dec 2022 — avg 426 · peak 744Apr 2023 — avg 478 · peak 949Aug 2023 — avg 396 · peak 739Dec 2023 — avg 278 · peak 506Apr 2024 — avg 270 · peak 618Aug 2024 — avg 321 · peak 657Dec 2024 — avg 414 · peak 932Apr 2025 — avg 414 · peak 850Aug 2025 — avg 279 · peak 520Dec 2025 — avg 407 · peak 771Apr 2026 — avg 594 · peak 1,314Aug 2026 — avg 370 · peak 719
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Chart history

PositiveNegative
552026-09-232026-10-142026-09-25: 2 new positive2026-09-26: 2 new positive2026-09-26: 1 new negative2026-09-28: 2 new positive2026-09-29: 3 new positive2026-09-30: 2 new positive2026-09-30: 1 new negative2026-10-01: 1 new positive2026-10-02: 1 new positive2026-10-04: 3 new positive2026-10-04: 1 new negative2026-10-05: 2 new positive2026-10-07: 1 new positive2026-10-07: 1 new negative2026-10-11: 5 new positive2026-10-11: 2 new negative2026-10-14: 1 new positive
New Steam reviews per day (census review snapshots). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$44.99$5.992015-01-012026-08-192015-01-01 — best price $44.992016-09-01 — best price $17.992017-12-05 — best price $29.992018-03-20 — best price $39.992018-05-28 — best price $29.992018-08-01 — best price $29.742018-10-08 — best price $39.992018-12-10 — best price $22.812019-02-09 — best price $37.992019-04-08 — best price $29.992019-06-14 — best price $19.992019-08-17 — best price $37.992019-10-23 — best price $39.992019-12-15 — best price $19.512020-01-29 — best price $40.972020-03-24 — best price $29.752020-05-14 — best price $14.992020-07-16 — best price $8.502020-09-26 — best price $33.192020-12-06 — best price $39.992021-01-21 — best price $19.992021-03-25 — best price $19.992021-05-10 — best price $18.392021-08-09 — best price $19.992021-12-05 — best price $39.992022-02-28 — best price $18.372022-04-23 — best price $37.992022-07-14 — best price $19.992022-09-14 — best price $20.002022-12-12 — best price $17.902023-05-22 — best price $36.192024-01-30 — best price $9.992024-10-08 — best price $39.992025-06-16 — best price $39.992026-03-26 — best price $39.992026-08-19 — best price $29.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

1.6k1942026-05-23 — 314 pageviews2026-05-27 — 317 pageviews2026-05-31 — 333 pageviews2026-06-04 — 284 pageviews2026-06-08 — 367 pageviews2026-06-12 — 319 pageviews2026-06-16 — 333 pageviews2026-06-20 — 350 pageviews2026-06-24 — 260 pageviews2026-06-28 — 345 pageviews2026-07-02 — 501 pageviews2026-07-06 — 383 pageviews2026-07-10 — 798 pageviews2026-07-14 — 718 pageviews2026-07-18 — 676 pageviews2026-07-22 — 443 pageviews2026-07-26 — 418 pageviews2026-07-30 — 320 pageviews2026-08-03 — 353 pageviews2026-08-07 — 308 pageviews2026-08-11 — 348 pageviews2026-08-15 — 341 pageviews2026-08-19 — 317 pageviews2026-08-23 — 307 pageviews2026-08-27 — 249 pageviews2026-08-31 — 333 pageviews2026-09-04 — 248 pageviews2026-09-08 — 272 pageviews2026-09-12 — 248 pageviews2026-09-16 — 259 pageviews2026-09-20 — 289 pageviews2026-09-24 — 400 pageviews2026-09-28 — 314 pageviews2026-10-02 — 232 pageviews2026-10-06 — 274 pageviews2026-10-10 — 194 pageviews2026-10-12 — 274 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Twitch viewers

3002026-09-30 21:34 — 1 viewers2026-10-01 03:34 — 23 viewers2026-10-01 13:34 — 1 viewers2026-10-01 20:34 — 2 viewers2026-10-02 04:34 — 1 viewers2026-10-02 10:34 — 1 viewers2026-10-02 16:34 — 1 viewers2026-10-02 22:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-03 04:34 — 1 viewers2026-10-04 02:34 — 1 viewers2026-10-04 08:34 — 26 viewers2026-10-04 14:34 — 2 viewers2026-10-04 20:34 — 4 viewers2026-10-05 02:34 — 4 viewers2026-10-06 00:34 — 7 viewers2026-10-06 06:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-06 12:34 — 3 viewers2026-10-06 18:34 — 1 viewers2026-10-07 00:35 — 0 viewers2026-10-07 21:34 — 3 viewers2026-10-08 03:34 — 1 viewers2026-10-08 09:34 — 4 viewers2026-10-09 21:34 — 1 viewers2026-10-10 03:34 — 1 viewers2026-10-10 09:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-11 21:34 — 8 viewers2026-10-12 03:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-12 09:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-12 15:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-12 21:34 — 3 viewers2026-10-13 03:34 — 2 viewers2026-10-13 09:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-13 15:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-13 21:34 — 4 viewers2026-10-14 03:34 — 5 viewers2026-10-14 09:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-14 15:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-14 20:34 — 2 viewers
Hourly Twitch viewers (census snapshots).

Completion

48
achievements tracked
46.5%
earned "Completed Act I"
9.2%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam Trading CardsSteam CloudCommentary availableRemote Play on TabletFamily Sharing1 DLC

6 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Russian

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2017-11-15 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)26,2591%48
Switch (Nintendo)270%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

RPGCRPGFantasyAdventureIsometricOpen WorldStory RichAtmosphericExplorationKickstarter

Census log

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

Recent updates

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