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SanctuaryRPG: Black Edition cover art

SanctuaryRPG: Black Edition

Black Shell Media · Plug In Digital · 2015-02-13

SteamGOG

ActionAdventureCasualIndieRPGStrategy

Modes: Single player

Releases: Feb 13, 2015 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

SanctuaryRPG: Black Edition is a humorous and strategic turn-based dungeon crawling ASCII adventure. Drawing heavy inspiration from both Roguelikes and Japanese RPGs, the game offers a robust action-RPG inspired combat system.

2
playing now
91%
positive of 1.6k reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
80/100
IGDB user rating (3 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$7.99
steam price (US)

2 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 05:00 UTC (census sample)

SanctuaryRPG is an adventure game developed by Black Shell Games and released on April 29, 2014 for Microsoft Windows.

Health check

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  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 28% of 10,862 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 40k–95k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 1,586 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

GOG$0.79-90%
lowest across shops (ITAD)$0.79-90%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $0.49 at Humble Store (2016-11-23) · bundled 6×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $7.99 · on sale 9 of 15 observed days · $0.30 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Players online

202026-08-11 18:00 — 1 players2026-08-12 09:00 — 0 players2026-08-13 01:00 — 1 players2026-08-13 17:00 — 0 players2026-08-14 09:00 — 0 players2026-08-15 01:00 — 0 players2026-08-15 16:00 — 0 players2026-08-16 08:00 — 2 players2026-08-17 00:00 — 0 players2026-08-17 16:00 — 0 players2026-08-18 08:00 — 1 players2026-08-19 00:00 — 0 players2026-08-19 15:00 — 1 players2026-08-20 07:00 — 0 players2026-08-20 23:00 — 0 players2026-08-21 15:00 — 0 players2026-08-22 06:00 — 2 players2026-08-22 22:00 — 0 players2026-08-23 14:00 — 0 players2026-08-24 06:00 — 0 players2026-08-24 22:00 — 1 players2026-08-25 13:00 — 0 players2026-08-26 06:00 — 1 players2026-08-26 22:00 — 0 players2026-08-27 14:00 — 0 players2026-08-28 06:00 — 2 players2026-08-28 22:00 — 2 players2026-08-29 14:00 — 1 players2026-08-30 05:00 — 2 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$10.75$0.592015-01-012026-08-302015-01-01 — best price $4.992015-04-29 — best price $6.922015-09-06 — best price $3.742016-02-16 — best price $7.992016-05-20 — best price $4.992017-01-03 — best price $7.992017-11-22 — best price $0.792018-11-01 — best price $7.992020-01-24 — best price $0.792020-06-08 — best price $7.992020-07-16 — best price $0.802020-09-21 — best price $7.992020-10-24 — best price $7.992020-12-14 — best price $6.692021-02-20 — best price $7.992021-04-17 — best price $7.092021-05-17 — best price $7.092021-07-01 — best price $7.992021-10-02 — best price $7.992022-01-03 — best price $0.592022-03-04 — best price $7.992022-07-07 — best price $7.992022-08-31 — best price $7.992022-12-22 — best price $0.792023-02-25 — best price $7.992023-04-24 — best price $0.592023-06-24 — best price $1.352023-08-18 — best price $1.352023-10-03 — best price $6.282023-12-02 — best price $7.992024-03-14 — best price $1.192025-11-20 — best price $0.792026-08-30 — best price $0.79
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam Trading CardsCaptions availableSteam CloudFamily Sharing3 DLC

1 supported languages: English

Player tags

RPGLootIndieRetroActionCasualStrategyAdventureRogue-likeRogue-lite

Census log

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

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