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Sacrifice cover art

Sacrifice

Shiny Entertainment · Interplay Inc. · 2009-08-19

SteamGOG

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative

Releases: Nov 05, 2000 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Dec 07, 2001 (Mac)

Sacrifice is the acclaimed real-time strategy game that focuses on combat instead of resource gathering. The only two resources you'll need to worry about are mana and souls. Need more units? Capture the souls of your enemy. Cast spells of awesome power.

3
playing now
92%
positive of 703 reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
60/100
critic score (1 outlets, IGDB)
87/100
IGDB user rating (27 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$24.99
steam price (US)

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

Sacrifice is a real-time strategy video game published by Interplay Entertainment in 2000 for Microsoft Windows platform. Developed by Shiny Entertainment, the game features elements of action and other genres. Players control wizards who fight each other with spells and summoned creatures. The game was ported to Mac OS 9.2 in 2001.

Health check

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Estimated sales: 28k–56k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 703 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

GOG$24.99
lowest across shops (ITAD)$24.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $1.99 at Steam (2013-12-25) · bundled 2×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $24.99 · on sale 18 of 30 observed days · $23.00 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Players online

602026-08-11 20:00 — 2 players2026-08-12 12:00 — 3 players2026-08-13 03:00 — 0 players2026-08-13 19:00 — 3 players2026-08-14 11:00 — 2 players2026-08-15 03:00 — 3 players2026-08-15 19:00 — 4 players2026-08-16 11:00 — 4 players2026-08-17 03:00 — 3 players2026-08-17 18:00 — 5 players2026-08-18 10:00 — 2 players2026-08-19 02:00 — 5 players2026-08-19 18:00 — 3 players2026-08-20 09:00 — 3 players2026-08-21 01:00 — 6 players2026-08-21 17:00 — 3 players2026-08-22 09:00 — 4 players2026-08-23 00:00 — 3 players2026-08-23 16:00 — 5 players2026-08-24 08:00 — 2 players2026-08-25 00:00 — 3 players2026-08-25 16:00 — 5 players2026-08-26 08:00 — 1 players2026-08-27 00:00 — 3 players2026-08-27 17:00 — 2 players2026-08-28 09:00 — 0 players2026-08-29 01:00 — 0 players2026-08-29 18:00 — 4 players2026-08-30 08:00 — 3 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$24.99$2.692015-01-012026-08-302015-01-01 — best price $4.992015-06-02 — best price $9.992015-11-06 — best price $9.992016-01-04 — best price $9.992016-04-26 — best price $9.992016-07-13 — best price $4.992016-11-29 — best price $9.992017-06-05 — best price $9.992017-11-02 — best price $4.992018-01-02 — best price $9.992018-02-21 — best price $9.992018-05-08 — best price $9.992018-07-24 — best price $9.992018-10-30 — best price $3.392018-12-13 — best price $3.392019-02-12 — best price $9.992019-06-25 — best price $4.992019-11-08 — best price $6.992020-01-02 — best price $9.992020-03-30 — best price $9.992020-08-03 — best price $9.992021-01-05 — best price $9.992021-08-19 — best price $9.992022-05-08 — best price $9.992022-11-22 — best price $7.992023-01-06 — best price $7.992023-07-17 — best price $7.992023-11-21 — best price $7.992024-03-14 — best price $7.992024-09-10 — best price $7.992024-12-12 — best price $7.992025-03-13 — best price $7.992025-06-26 — best price $7.992025-10-06 — best price $9.992025-11-17 — best price $24.992026-02-04 — best price $24.992026-08-20 — best price $19.992026-08-30 — best price $24.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

436282026-06-01 — 45 pageviews2026-06-04 — 53 pageviews2026-06-07 — 52 pageviews2026-06-10 — 39 pageviews2026-06-13 — 77 pageviews2026-06-16 — 50 pageviews2026-06-19 — 48 pageviews2026-06-22 — 43 pageviews2026-06-25 — 36 pageviews2026-06-28 — 50 pageviews2026-07-01 — 48 pageviews2026-07-04 — 46 pageviews2026-07-07 — 39 pageviews2026-07-10 — 48 pageviews2026-07-13 — 43 pageviews2026-07-16 — 39 pageviews2026-07-19 — 53 pageviews2026-07-22 — 35 pageviews2026-07-25 — 38 pageviews2026-07-28 — 44 pageviews2026-07-31 — 53 pageviews2026-08-03 — 38 pageviews2026-08-06 — 56 pageviews2026-08-09 — 36 pageviews2026-08-12 — 49 pageviews2026-08-15 — 42 pageviews2026-08-18 — 63 pageviews2026-08-21 — 71 pageviews2026-08-24 — 59 pageviews2026-08-27 — 436 pageviews2026-08-29 — 84 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerFamily Sharing

5 supported languages: English, French, German, Italian, Spanish - Spain

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)3426%16

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

RPGRTSMagicActionClassicFantasySurrealStrategyReal-TimeMultiplayer

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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