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Rise of the Triad: Dark War cover art

Rise of the Triad: Dark War

Apogee Software · Apogee Entertainment · 2014-05-05

SteamGOG

Action

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer

Releases: Feb 11, 2010 (iOS), Jan 07, 2003 (Linux), Dec 21, 1994 (DOS), Jul 21, 2020 (Mac), Mar 03, 2009 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

You are part of an elite group of operatives called HUNT (High-risk United Nations Taskforce), and you must stop a maniac cult leader from killing millions of people. You are equipped with high-tech weaponry and magical instruments that defy description to invade the monastery and stop the madness.

2
playing now
84%
positive of 140 reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
73/100
IGDB user rating (32 ratings)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$6.99
steam price (US)

2 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 13:00 UTC (census sample)

Rise of the Triad: Dark War is a first-person shooter video game, developed and published by Apogee Software in 1995. The player controls one of five members of a United Nations backed special forces unit, who have been sent to investigate a deadly cult operating on San Nicholas Island which seeks to destroy the nearby Los Angeles.

Health check

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 64% of 10,862 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 3.5k–8.4k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 140 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

GOG$2.99-50%
lowest across shops (ITAD)$2.99-50%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $0.59 at GOG (2022-06-06) · bundled 2×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $6.99 · on sale 29 of 52 observed days · $2.40 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Players online

202026-08-12 00:00 — 1 players2026-08-12 16:00 — 1 players2026-08-13 08:00 — 0 players2026-08-14 00:00 — 0 players2026-08-14 16:00 — 2 players2026-08-15 08:00 — 0 players2026-08-15 23:00 — 0 players2026-08-16 15:00 — 0 players2026-08-17 07:00 — 0 players2026-08-17 23:00 — 1 players2026-08-18 15:00 — 1 players2026-08-19 07:00 — 0 players2026-08-19 22:00 — 0 players2026-08-20 14:00 — 2 players2026-08-21 06:00 — 0 players2026-08-21 22:00 — 1 players2026-08-22 14:00 — 0 players2026-08-23 05:00 — 0 players2026-08-23 21:00 — 0 players2026-08-24 13:00 — 0 players2026-08-25 05:00 — 0 players2026-08-25 21:00 — 1 players2026-08-26 13:00 — 1 players2026-08-27 05:00 — 0 players2026-08-27 22:00 — 0 players2026-08-28 14:00 — 2 players2026-08-29 05:00 — 0 players2026-08-29 21:00 — 2 players2026-08-30 13:00 — 2 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$39.99$0.592015-01-012026-08-302015-01-01 — best price $5.992015-06-17 — best price $5.992015-11-15 — best price $5.992016-08-12 — best price $6.992018-01-04 — best price $6.992020-03-16 — best price $5.992020-05-26 — best price $5.882020-06-29 — best price $5.882020-07-17 — best price $5.882020-08-04 — best price $5.882020-08-21 — best price $5.882020-09-09 — best price $5.882020-10-01 — best price $5.882020-10-19 — best price $5.882020-11-09 — best price $5.992020-11-28 — best price $5.882020-12-16 — best price $4.492021-01-21 — best price $5.882021-06-28 — best price $5.992022-01-24 — best price $1.492022-06-06 — best price $0.592022-11-04 — best price $5.992023-02-21 — best price $5.992023-09-12 — best price $5.992023-12-13 — best price $0.592024-03-14 — best price $0.902024-06-10 — best price $1.192024-09-18 — best price $5.992024-12-12 — best price $0.772025-05-22 — best price $0.772025-08-20 — best price $0.902025-10-20 — best price $5.992026-01-21 — best price $5.992026-04-24 — best price $5.992026-07-30 — best price $5.992026-08-30 — best price $2.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

645722026-05-31 — 109 pageviews2026-06-03 — 96 pageviews2026-06-06 — 88 pageviews2026-06-09 — 115 pageviews2026-06-12 — 79 pageviews2026-06-15 — 86 pageviews2026-06-18 — 92 pageviews2026-06-21 — 211 pageviews2026-06-24 — 140 pageviews2026-06-27 — 88 pageviews2026-06-30 — 101 pageviews2026-07-03 — 122 pageviews2026-07-06 — 119 pageviews2026-07-09 — 130 pageviews2026-07-12 — 140 pageviews2026-07-15 — 99 pageviews2026-07-18 — 109 pageviews2026-07-21 — 101 pageviews2026-07-24 — 87 pageviews2026-07-27 — 93 pageviews2026-07-30 — 90 pageviews2026-08-02 — 191 pageviews2026-08-05 — 96 pageviews2026-08-08 — 110 pageviews2026-08-11 — 111 pageviews2026-08-14 — 103 pageviews2026-08-17 — 90 pageviews2026-08-20 — 108 pageviews2026-08-23 — 96 pageviews2026-08-26 — 107 pageviews2026-08-28 — 76 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsmacOSSingle-playerPartial Controller SupportFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Player tags

FPS2.5DGoreRetro1990'sActionComedyShooterViolentOld School

Census log

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

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