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Return of the Phantom

MPS Labs · Ziggurat · 2020-08-07

SteamGOG

Adventure

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Side view, Text

Releases: Sep 01, 1993 (DOS), Aug 07, 2020 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

The legendary Phantom of the Opera has returned! As Inspector Raoul Montand, you are the only one who can pursue the Red Death into the past and prevent him from terrorizing the present in this point and click mystery.

Return of the Phantom is an Adventure game released in 2020, priced at $6.99, with Positive reviews (95% of 44 reviews) and an owner estimate of 50,000 .. 100,000.

1
playing now
95%
positive of 44 reviews
Positive
steam's rating (official)
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$6.99
steam price (US)

1 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 19:00 UTC (census sample)

Return of the Phantom is a point-and-click graphic adventure game developed and published by MicroProse in 1993. It was produced by Matt Gruson and designed/written by future James Bond novelist Raymond Benson. It is based on the 1910 novel The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 1 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 11 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity up 10% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 57% of 28,771 Adventure games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-02

Current store prices

GOG$6.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $1.71 at Fanatical (2026-09-14)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $6.99 · on sale 91 of 139 observed days · $5.28 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
3320202026Week of 2020-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

102026-09-15 05:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 13:00 — 0 players2026-09-17 20:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 04:00 — 1 players2026-09-20 11:00 — 0 players2026-09-21 19:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 03:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 10:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 18:00 — 1 players2026-09-27 01:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 09:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 16:00 — 0 players2026-10-01 00:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 07:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 15:00 — 0 players2026-10-04 23:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 06:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 14:00 — 0 players2026-10-08 21:00 — 1 players2026-10-10 05:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 12:00 — 0 players2026-10-12 20:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 04:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 19:00 — 1 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$6.99$2.092020-08-072026-10-142020-08-07 — best price $4.682021-01-05 — best price $6.992021-05-14 — best price $3.982021-06-24 — best price $4.682021-10-04 — best price $4.542021-11-17 — best price $6.192021-12-23 — best price $4.542022-03-01 — best price $4.542022-05-17 — best price $6.192022-07-01 — best price $5.482022-10-01 — best price $5.132022-11-23 — best price $4.542023-02-13 — best price $4.542023-04-05 — best price $4.542023-06-13 — best price $5.132023-09-01 — best price $4.542023-11-17 — best price $4.542024-01-19 — best price $4.192024-04-04 — best price $4.192024-06-11 — best price $4.892024-08-21 — best price $6.992024-10-12 — best price $5.132024-11-27 — best price $4.192025-02-03 — best price $5.132025-03-14 — best price $5.132025-05-30 — best price $3.142025-08-14 — best price $3.142025-09-30 — best price $2.792025-11-27 — best price $2.792026-01-23 — best price $2.442026-03-26 — best price $2.442026-05-09 — best price $6.992026-06-16 — best price $5.232026-08-03 — best price $2.092026-09-05 — best price $2.092026-09-20 — best price $2.092026-10-05 — best price $2.092026-10-14 — best price $6.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

4132026-06-01 — 8 pageviews2026-06-05 — 5 pageviews2026-06-09 — 20 pageviews2026-06-13 — 8 pageviews2026-06-17 — 18 pageviews2026-06-21 — 12 pageviews2026-06-25 — 19 pageviews2026-06-29 — 8 pageviews2026-07-03 — 11 pageviews2026-07-07 — 9 pageviews2026-07-11 — 7 pageviews2026-07-15 — 7 pageviews2026-07-19 — 9 pageviews2026-07-23 — 8 pageviews2026-07-27 — 8 pageviews2026-07-31 — 5 pageviews2026-08-04 — 6 pageviews2026-08-08 — 8 pageviews2026-08-12 — 18 pageviews2026-08-16 — 9 pageviews2026-08-20 — 12 pageviews2026-08-24 — 21 pageviews2026-08-28 — 41 pageviews2026-09-01 — 23 pageviews2026-09-05 — 29 pageviews2026-09-09 — 8 pageviews2026-09-13 — 15 pageviews2026-09-17 — 14 pageviews2026-09-21 — 12 pageviews2026-09-25 — 16 pageviews2026-09-29 — 17 pageviews2026-10-03 — 14 pageviews2026-10-07 — 16 pageviews2026-10-11 — 9 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerFamily Sharing

Player tags

DramaHorrorClassicMysteryThrillerAdventureDetectiveHistoricalAtmosphericTime Travel

Census log

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

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