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Scarlet Tower

Pyxeralia LLC · Team17 · 2024-03-25

Steam

ActionCasualIndieRPG

Modes: Single player

Releases: May 23, 2024 (Nintendo Switch), Oct 31, 2022 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Hunt during the day, be hunted during the NIGHT! Scarlet Tower is a gothic horror casual game with roguelike and RPG elements, like talent trees, classes, familiars and more!

5
playing now
81%
positive of 2.4k reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$4.99
steam price (US)

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

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 5 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 81 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~10/week).
  • · Review velocity down 30% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (260 reviews).
  • · Top 24% of 10,791 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-30

Estimated sales: 48k–107k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 2,385 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

lowest across shops (ITAD)$4.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $1.99 at WinGameStore (2026-03-11) · bundled 6×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $4.99 · on sale 28 of 54 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
21521520222026Week of 2022-11-01: 215 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 45 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 93 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 97 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 20 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 70 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 69 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 49 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 30 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 78 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 72 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 19 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 145 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 32 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 48 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 18 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 109 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 36 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 69 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 3 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

3552026-08-11 19:00 — 11 players2026-08-12 11:00 — 9 players2026-08-13 03:00 — 10 players2026-08-13 19:00 — 22 players2026-08-14 10:00 — 16 players2026-08-15 02:00 — 23 players2026-08-15 18:00 — 22 players2026-08-16 10:00 — 25 players2026-08-17 02:00 — 22 players2026-08-17 18:00 — 21 players2026-08-18 10:00 — 11 players2026-08-19 01:00 — 20 players2026-08-19 17:00 — 26 players2026-08-20 09:00 — 16 players2026-08-21 01:00 — 16 players2026-08-21 16:00 — 21 players2026-08-22 08:00 — 24 players2026-08-23 00:00 — 23 players2026-08-23 16:00 — 35 players2026-08-24 07:00 — 14 players2026-08-24 23:00 — 5 players2026-08-25 15:00 — 21 players2026-08-26 07:00 — 9 players2026-08-26 21:00 — 16 players2026-08-27 13:00 — 7 players2026-08-28 05:00 — 5 players2026-08-28 21:00 — 8 players2026-08-29 13:00 — 15 players2026-08-30 05:00 — 5 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$4.99$1.992022-10-282026-08-242022-10-28 — best price $4.992022-11-14 — best price $3.192022-12-21 — best price $4.242023-01-30 — best price $4.992023-03-10 — best price $3.492023-03-25 — best price $4.992023-04-22 — best price $4.992023-05-31 — best price $4.992023-06-30 — best price $3.992023-07-22 — best price $4.992023-10-02 — best price $4.992024-01-04 — best price $4.992024-03-05 — best price $4.992024-04-02 — best price $3.992024-05-11 — best price $4.992024-06-27 — best price $3.742024-08-12 — best price $2.802024-10-09 — best price $3.992024-11-07 — best price $3.342024-11-28 — best price $2.802024-12-19 — best price $3.742025-01-30 — best price $4.992025-03-20 — best price $4.992025-05-23 — best price $2.802025-06-27 — best price $4.992025-07-29 — best price $3.992025-09-16 — best price $4.992025-10-01 — best price $4.992025-11-07 — best price $4.992025-12-09 — best price $3.492026-01-05 — best price $4.992026-02-21 — best price $4.992026-03-26 — best price $4.992026-04-20 — best price $3.342026-06-11 — best price $2.492026-07-24 — best price $4.992026-08-19 — best price $4.992026-08-24 — best price $4.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

60+
achievements tracked
87.5%
earned "Slime Killer"
54.2%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam Trading CardsSteam CloudFamily Sharing1 DLC

10 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Simplified Chinese, Korean, Spanish - Latin America, Japanese, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)3,5491%103
Switch (Nintendo)150%0

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

Player tags

2DRPGActionCasualDemonsVampireZombiesMedievalSurvivalHand-drawn

Census log

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

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