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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 · Perspectives: First person

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.

Rise of the Triad: Dark War is a 2014 Action game priced at $6.99, with an estimated 20,000 to 50,000 owners and a Very Positive review sentiment (84% of 141 reviews).

1
playing now
84%
positive of 141 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
73/100
IGDB user rating (32 ratings)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$6.99
steam price (US)

1 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 23:00 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

Quiet
  • · 1 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 11 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 39% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 34% of 27,960 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-01

Estimated sales: 3.5k–8.5k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 141 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

GOG$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 62 of 89 observed days · $2.40 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
5520152026Week of 2015-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2015-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2016-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

202026-09-16 01:00 — 1 players2026-09-17 08:00 — 0 players2026-09-18 16:00 — 1 players2026-09-19 23:00 — 0 players2026-09-21 07:00 — 0 players2026-09-22 15:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 22:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 06:00 — 0 players2026-09-26 13:00 — 2 players2026-09-27 21:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 04:00 — 0 players2026-09-30 12:00 — 1 players2026-10-01 19:00 — 1 players2026-10-03 03:00 — 0 players2026-10-04 11:00 — 1 players2026-10-05 19:00 — 1 players2026-10-07 02:00 — 1 players2026-10-08 10:00 — 1 players2026-10-09 17:00 — 1 players2026-10-11 01:00 — 0 players2026-10-12 08:00 — 0 players2026-10-13 16:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 23:00 — 1 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
20May 2015Jun 2024May 2015 — avg 0 · peak 5Aug 2015 — avg 0 · peak 3Nov 2015 — avg 0 · peak 3Feb 2016 — avg 0 · peak 3May 2016 — avg 0 · peak 3Aug 2016 — avg 0 · peak 3Nov 2016 — avg 0 · peak 3Feb 2017 — avg 1 · peak 4May 2017 — avg 0 · peak 3Aug 2017 — avg 0 · peak 3Nov 2017 — avg 1 · peak 4Feb 2018 — avg 0 · peak 2May 2018 — avg 0 · peak 3Aug 2018 — avg 0 · peak 3Nov 2018 — avg 0 · peak 3Feb 2019 — avg 0 · peak 4May 2019 — avg 0 · peak 3Aug 2019 — avg 1 · peak 4Nov 2019 — avg 1 · peak 2Feb 2020 — avg 1 · peak 5May 2020 — avg 2 · peak 5Aug 2020 — avg 1 · peak 5Nov 2020 — avg 1 · peak 5Feb 2021 — avg 1 · peak 4May 2021 — avg 1 · peak 5Aug 2021 — avg 2 · peak 4Nov 2021 — avg 1 · peak 4Feb 2022 — avg 1 · peak 4May 2022 — avg 1 · peak 4Aug 2022 — avg 1 · peak 4Nov 2022 — avg 1 · peak 6Feb 2023 — avg 1 · peak 4Jun 2023 — avg 1 · peak 4Oct 2023 — avg 1 · peak 4Mar 2024 — avg 1 · peak 3Jun 2024 — avg 1 · peak 3

No change (0) in avg players vs prior month — Jun 2024

Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$39.99$0.592015-01-012026-10-152015-01-01 — 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 $5.992026-09-05 — best price $2.992026-09-17 — best price $2.992026-09-29 — best price $2.992026-10-11 — best price $5.992026-10-15 — best price $2.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

398552026-05-31 — 109 pageviews2026-06-04 — 95 pageviews2026-06-08 — 89 pageviews2026-06-12 — 79 pageviews2026-06-16 — 105 pageviews2026-06-20 — 398 pageviews2026-06-24 — 140 pageviews2026-06-28 — 133 pageviews2026-07-02 — 142 pageviews2026-07-06 — 119 pageviews2026-07-10 — 123 pageviews2026-07-14 — 112 pageviews2026-07-18 — 109 pageviews2026-07-22 — 90 pageviews2026-07-26 — 101 pageviews2026-07-30 — 90 pageviews2026-08-03 — 156 pageviews2026-08-07 — 101 pageviews2026-08-11 — 111 pageviews2026-08-15 — 101 pageviews2026-08-19 — 94 pageviews2026-08-23 — 96 pageviews2026-08-27 — 81 pageviews2026-08-31 — 85 pageviews2026-09-04 — 97 pageviews2026-09-08 — 86 pageviews2026-09-12 — 77 pageviews2026-09-16 — 79 pageviews2026-09-20 — 116 pageviews2026-09-24 — 113 pageviews2026-09-28 — 83 pageviews2026-10-02 — 68 pageviews2026-10-06 — 81 pageviews2026-10-09 — 55 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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