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Shadows of Forbidden Gods

Bobby Two Hands · Forbidden Oak Games Limited · 2023-07-15

Steam

SimulationStrategy

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Bird view / Isometric

Releases: Nov 01, 2021 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Take on the role of a Dark Elder God and lead your agents to bring about an apocalypse in a fantasy world. Work in the shadows, avoiding the heroes who will try to stop you, as you bring about plague and famine, ice age and volcanic destruction, madness and never ending night.

Shadows of Forbidden Gods is a $19.99 Simulation and Strategy game released in 2023, estimated to have 50,000 .. 100,000 owners, with a Very Positive review sentiment (92% of 1068 reviews).

20
playing now
92%
positive of 1.1k reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
3
Nexus mods (45 downloads)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$19.99
steam price (US)

20 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 17:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 20 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 79 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~10/week).
  • · Review velocity up 1% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 14% of 16,758 Simulation games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-31

Estimated sales: 21k–48k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 1,068 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $2.99 at Steam (2025-12-18) · bundled 2×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $19.99 · on sale 3 of 6 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
959520212026Week of 2021-11-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 93 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 49 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 39 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 45 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 95 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 36 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 41 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 33 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 28 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 2 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

2752026-09-15 18:00 — 21 players2026-09-17 03:00 — 20 players2026-09-18 10:00 — 12 players2026-09-19 18:00 — 11 players2026-09-21 01:00 — 9 players2026-09-22 09:00 — 15 players2026-09-23 16:00 — 23 players2026-09-25 00:00 — 22 players2026-09-26 07:00 — 9 players2026-09-27 15:00 — 23 players2026-09-28 22:00 — 18 players2026-09-30 06:00 — 13 players2026-10-01 13:00 — 11 players2026-10-02 21:00 — 22 players2026-10-04 05:00 — 11 players2026-10-05 13:00 — 7 players2026-10-06 20:00 — 16 players2026-10-08 04:00 — 14 players2026-10-09 11:00 — 12 players2026-10-10 19:00 — 27 players2026-10-12 02:00 — 13 players2026-10-13 10:00 — 8 players2026-10-14 17:00 — 20 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
1314Nov 2021Aug 2026Nov 2021 — avg 4 · peak 13Jan 2022 — avg 4 · peak 14Mar 2022 — avg 9 · peak 34May 2022 — avg 66 · peak 210Jul 2022 — avg 30 · peak 68Sep 2022 — avg 22 · peak 48Nov 2022 — avg 19 · peak 36Jan 2023 — avg 17 · peak 38Mar 2023 — avg 19 · peak 42May 2023 — avg 39 · peak 115Jul 2023 — avg 91 · peak 495Sep 2023 — avg 27 · peak 65Nov 2023 — avg 31 · peak 87Jan 2024 — avg 28 · peak 58Mar 2024 — avg 48 · peak 127May 2024 — avg 22 · peak 53Jul 2024 — avg 33 · peak 70Sep 2024 — avg 28 · peak 62Nov 2024 — avg 18 · peak 71Jan 2025 — avg 19 · peak 40Mar 2025 — avg 51 · peak 189May 2025 — avg 17 · peak 35Jul 2025 — avg 24 · peak 56Sep 2025 — avg 18 · peak 45Nov 2025 — avg 15 · peak 37Jan 2026 — avg 29 · peak 82Mar 2026 — avg 17 · peak 44May 2026 — avg 16 · peak 33Jul 2026 — avg 14 · peak 32Aug 2026 — avg 21 · peak 45
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$19.99$2.992021-11-012026-08-252021-11-01 — best price $19.992023-09-18 — best price $16.992023-09-25 — best price $19.992023-10-30 — best price $14.992023-11-06 — best price $19.992023-12-21 — best price $15.992024-01-04 — best price $19.992024-03-14 — best price $12.992024-03-21 — best price $19.992024-06-27 — best price $11.992024-07-11 — best price $19.992024-11-27 — best price $7.992024-12-04 — best price $19.992025-03-11 — best price $7.992025-03-18 — best price $19.992025-07-02 — best price $6.992025-07-10 — best price $19.992025-08-22 — best price $19.992025-10-01 — best price $4.992025-10-06 — best price $19.992025-12-18 — best price $2.992026-01-05 — best price $19.992026-03-19 — best price $2.992026-03-26 — best price $19.992026-08-18 — best price $9.992026-08-25 — best price $19.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

35
achievements tracked
66.9%
earned "First Agent"
7.8%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerFamily Sharing1 DLC

1 supported languages: English

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2024-03-11 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)6840%35

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

Player tags

2DDarkCrimeGod GameStrategyTop-DownConspiracyDystopian SimulationDestruction

Census log

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

Recent updates

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