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Salammbô: Battle for Carthage

Cryo Interactive · Microids · 2014-05-30

Steam

Adventure

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: First person

Releases: May 08, 2003 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Inspired by the novel of Gustave Flaubert and the works of Phillippe Druillet, Salammbo: Battle for Carthage puts you in the middle of two of antiquities greatest powers. Can you deliver Salammbo's message before it's too late?

Salammbô: Battle for Carthage is an Adventure game released in 2014, priced at $4.99, with an estimated 20,000 to 50,000 owners and a Mostly Positive review sentiment (76% of 106 reviews).

0
playing now
76%
positive of 106 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
60/100
IGDB user rating (2 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$4.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 08:00 UTC (census sample)

Salammbo: Battle for Carthage is a first-person adventure video game. It began development at Cryo Interactive, but the company went bankrupt during production. The Salammbo team was ultimately acquired by DreamCatcher Interactive, which finished the game's development.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 8 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity up 0% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 39% of 28,796 Adventure games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-01

Estimated sales: 2.6k–6.4k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 106 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.38 at GameBillet (2026-02-04) · bundled 5×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $4.99 · on sale 37 of 62 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
3320142026Week of 2014-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2014-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2014-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2014-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2014-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2014-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2014-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2014-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2015-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 3 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

102026-09-15 09:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 17:00 — 0 players2026-09-18 01:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 08:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 16:00 — 0 players2026-09-21 23:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 07:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 14:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 22:00 — 0 players2026-09-27 05:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 13:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 20:00 — 0 players2026-10-01 04:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 11:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 19:00 — 1 players2026-10-05 03:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 11:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 18:00 — 0 players2026-10-09 02:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 09:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 17:00 — 0 players2026-10-13 01:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 08:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$4.99$0.422015-01-012026-08-142015-01-01 — best price $1.242016-02-12 — best price $4.992016-12-22 — best price $1.492017-10-30 — best price $4.992018-08-08 — best price $1.992019-02-11 — best price $4.992019-06-26 — best price $0.992019-11-11 — best price $0.992020-03-09 — best price $4.992020-07-29 — best price $4.992020-11-03 — best price $4.992021-01-14 — best price $4.992021-05-12 — best price $0.422021-09-29 — best price $4.992022-01-05 — best price $4.992022-06-20 — best price $0.692022-12-16 — best price $0.542023-03-15 — best price $0.542023-06-27 — best price $4.992023-10-03 — best price $4.992023-11-25 — best price $0.872024-02-05 — best price $0.882024-04-09 — best price $0.992024-06-11 — best price $4.162024-08-02 — best price $0.872024-09-24 — best price $0.432024-11-04 — best price $4.992025-01-01 — best price $4.992025-03-27 — best price $0.882025-06-28 — best price $0.882025-09-07 — best price $4.992025-11-08 — best price $4.992026-01-12 — best price $4.992026-03-04 — best price $4.292026-07-17 — best price $3.742026-08-14 — best price $4.05
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

2022026-06-01 — 11 pageviews2026-06-05 — 10 pageviews2026-06-09 — 5 pageviews2026-06-13 — 11 pageviews2026-06-17 — 6 pageviews2026-06-21 — 5 pageviews2026-06-25 — 5 pageviews2026-06-29 — 7 pageviews2026-07-03 — 3 pageviews2026-07-07 — 4 pageviews2026-07-11 — 7 pageviews2026-07-15 — 15 pageviews2026-07-19 — 5 pageviews2026-07-23 — 14 pageviews2026-07-27 — 8 pageviews2026-07-31 — 9 pageviews2026-08-04 — 4 pageviews2026-08-08 — 7 pageviews2026-08-12 — 3 pageviews2026-08-16 — 9 pageviews2026-08-20 — 11 pageviews2026-08-24 — 6 pageviews2026-08-28 — 9 pageviews2026-09-01 — 11 pageviews2026-09-05 — 4 pageviews2026-09-09 — 8 pageviews2026-09-13 — 7 pageviews2026-09-17 — 2 pageviews2026-09-21 — 8 pageviews2026-09-25 — 11 pageviews2026-09-29 — 4 pageviews2026-10-03 — 5 pageviews2026-10-07 — 4 pageviews2026-10-11 — 11 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerFamily Sharing

4 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German

Player tags

AdventurePoint & Click

Census log

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

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