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Rooks Keep

RuneStorm · 2014-12-05

Steam

ActionIndieStrategy

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative

Releases: Jun 18, 2013 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Rooks Keep is an arena-based, melee combat game. A variety of game-modes, characters, maps and mutators are available. It also has Chess modes, mod support and decapitation!

68%
positive of 96 reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
70/100
IGDB user rating (0 ratings)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$7.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 3 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~0/week).
  • · Review velocity down 25% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 51% of 18,722 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 2.4k–5.8k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 96 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $2.39 at Steam (2025-12-18) · bundled 10×via IsThereAnyDeal

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
4420142026Week of 2014-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2014-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerMulti-playerPvPOnline PvPLAN PvPCo-opOnline Co-opLAN Co-opSteam AchievementsSteam Trading Cards

Player tags

GoreChessIndieActionViolentStrategyMultiplayer

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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