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Shadows Over Loathing cover art

Shadows Over Loathing

Asymmetric · 2022-11-11

SteamPlayStation Store

AdventureIndieRPG

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Side view, Text

Releases: Apr 19, 2023 (Nintendo Switch), May 15, 2025 (PlayStation 5), May 15, 2025 (PlayStation 4), Nov 11, 2022 (Mac), Nov 11, 2022 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Shadows over Loathing — a slapstick-figure comedy adventure-RPG full of mobsters, monsters, and mysteries.

Shadows Over Loathing is an Adventure, Indie, RPG game released in 2022, with an estimated 200,000 .. 500,000 owners, priced at $15.40, and holds an Overwhelmingly Positive review sentiment (96% of 3322 reviews).

21
playing now
96%
positive of 3.3k reviews
Overwhelmingly Positive
steam's rating (official)
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
77/100
IGDB user rating (6 ratings)
4.84★
PlayStation Store rating (56 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Verified
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$15.40
steam price (US)

21 players in-game as of 2026-10-15 04:00 UTC (census sample)

Shadows Over Loathing is a 2022 role-playing video game developed by Asymmetric Publications. A follow-up to the 2017 game West of Loathing, it was released for Windows and macOS on November 11, 2022, and for Nintendo Switch on April 19, 2023.

Trailer

Shadows Over Loathing trailer thumbnail

Shadows Over Loathing - Launch Trailer - Nintendo Switch

≈614,578 YouTube results for this game's trailer search

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 21 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 153 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~19/week).
  • · Review velocity down 2% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (1,003 reviews).
  • · Top 7% of 28,945 Adventure games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-28

Estimated sales: 66k–149k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 3,322 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $13.33 at Steam (2026-06-25)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $22.99 · on sale 5 of 9 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
97797720222026Week of 2022-11-01: 977 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 26 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 521 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 24 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 262 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 80 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 72 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 56 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 31 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 43 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 72 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 35 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 43 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 47 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 31 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 50 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 53 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 42 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 40 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 26 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 44 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 30 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 29 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 30 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 30 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 32 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 3 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

73112026-09-15 14:00 — 21 players2026-09-16 22:00 — 44 players2026-09-18 05:00 — 30 players2026-09-19 13:00 — 31 players2026-09-20 20:00 — 45 players2026-09-22 04:00 — 36 players2026-09-23 12:00 — 19 players2026-09-24 19:00 — 20 players2026-09-26 03:00 — 44 players2026-09-27 10:00 — 16 players2026-09-28 18:00 — 30 players2026-09-30 01:00 — 41 players2026-10-01 09:00 — 15 players2026-10-02 16:00 — 36 players2026-10-04 00:00 — 56 players2026-10-05 08:00 — 27 players2026-10-06 15:00 — 36 players2026-10-07 23:00 — 42 players2026-10-09 06:00 — 32 players2026-10-10 14:00 — 45 players2026-10-11 22:00 — 73 players2026-10-13 05:00 — 31 players2026-10-14 13:00 — 18 players2026-10-15 04:00 — 21 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
93125Nov 2022Aug 2026Nov 2022 — avg 931 · peak 3,074Jan 2023 — avg 393 · peak 1,252Mar 2023 — avg 111 · peak 269May 2023 — avg 58 · peak 128Jul 2023 — avg 100 · peak 188Sep 2023 — avg 69 · peak 156Nov 2023 — avg 51 · peak 120Jan 2024 — avg 73 · peak 193Mar 2024 — avg 52 · peak 110May 2024 — avg 39 · peak 77Jul 2024 — avg 59 · peak 118Sep 2024 — avg 36 · peak 83Nov 2024 — avg 37 · peak 85Jan 2025 — avg 51 · peak 122Mar 2025 — avg 41 · peak 94May 2025 — avg 39 · peak 84Jul 2025 — avg 42 · peak 77Sep 2025 — avg 27 · peak 59Nov 2025 — avg 42 · peak 98Jan 2026 — avg 40 · peak 98Mar 2026 — avg 32 · peak 77May 2026 — avg 25 · peak 52Jul 2026 — avg 56 · peak 122Aug 2026 — avg 39 · peak 111
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$23.00$13.332022-11-112026-08-272022-11-11 — best price $19.542023-01-05 — best price $22.992023-03-23 — best price $22.992023-07-13 — best price $22.992023-09-27 — best price $22.992023-11-28 — best price $22.992023-12-21 — best price $16.092024-02-12 — best price $17.242024-03-14 — best price $17.242024-04-04 — best price $17.242024-06-27 — best price $16.092024-09-30 — best price $15.862024-11-27 — best price $15.632024-12-19 — best price $15.402025-01-30 — best price $16.092025-03-13 — best price $15.172025-04-22 — best price $16.092025-06-26 — best price $14.942025-09-29 — best price $14.482025-10-30 — best price $14.252025-12-18 — best price $13.792026-03-19 — best price $13.792026-06-25 — best price $13.332026-08-27 — best price $15.40
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

192162026-05-31 — 27 pageviews2026-06-04 — 21 pageviews2026-06-08 — 29 pageviews2026-06-12 — 32 pageviews2026-06-16 — 53 pageviews2026-06-20 — 25 pageviews2026-06-24 — 34 pageviews2026-06-28 — 27 pageviews2026-07-02 — 31 pageviews2026-07-06 — 37 pageviews2026-07-10 — 38 pageviews2026-07-14 — 100 pageviews2026-07-18 — 46 pageviews2026-07-22 — 54 pageviews2026-07-26 — 56 pageviews2026-07-30 — 31 pageviews2026-08-03 — 72 pageviews2026-08-07 — 61 pageviews2026-08-11 — 25 pageviews2026-08-15 — 27 pageviews2026-08-19 — 35 pageviews2026-08-23 — 38 pageviews2026-08-27 — 44 pageviews2026-08-31 — 38 pageviews2026-09-04 — 30 pageviews2026-09-08 — 33 pageviews2026-09-12 — 28 pageviews2026-09-16 — 38 pageviews2026-09-20 — 35 pageviews2026-09-24 — 36 pageviews2026-09-28 — 37 pageviews2026-10-02 — 41 pageviews2026-10-06 — 32 pageviews2026-10-09 — 34 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

37
achievements tracked
40.7%
earned "You Did the Monster Sash"
6.8%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam CloudRemote Play TogetherFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)1,6423%37
Switch (Nintendo)450%0
PS5 (PlayStation)4328%38
PS4 (PlayStation)1457%38

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

Where its players are

Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.

Player tags

2DRPGCRPGFunnyComedyPuzzleAdventureControllerLovecraftianInvestigation

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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