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Return of the Phantom

MPS Labs · Ziggurat · 2020-08-07

SteamGOG

Adventure

Modes: Single player

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.

0
playing now
95%
positive of 44 reviews
Positive
steam rating
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
$6.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 09:00 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.

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  • · Top 79% of 11,450 Adventure games in the census by review count.

Current store prices

GOG$2.09-70%
lowest across shops (ITAD)$6.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $2.09 at GOG (2026-05-20)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $6.99 · on sale 69 of 110 observed days · at its all-time low (census price snapshots)

Players online

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Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$6.99$2.092020-08-072026-08-302020-08-07 — 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 $2.092026-08-30 — best price $2.09
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

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Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerFamily Sharing

Census log

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

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