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Shadows Over Loathing

Asymmetric · 2022-11-11

SteamPlayStation Store

AdventureIndieRPG

Modes: Single player

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.

81
playing now
96%
positive of 3.3k reviews
Overwhelmingly Positive
steam rating
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
77/100
IGDB user rating (6 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$15.40
steam price (US)

81 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 03:00 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.

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 81 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 16% of 11,424 Adventure games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-28

Estimated sales: 66k–149k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 3,316 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

lowest across shops (ITAD)$15.40-33%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

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

12-month high $22.99 · on sale 6 of 11 observed days · $2.07 above the all-time low (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

81162026-08-07 00:00 — 61 players2026-08-07 08:00 — 22 players2026-08-07 16:00 — 36 players2026-08-08 00:00 — 52 players2026-08-08 08:00 — 25 players2026-08-08 16:00 — 53 players2026-08-09 00:00 — 63 players2026-08-09 08:00 — 42 players2026-08-09 16:00 — 51 players2026-08-10 00:00 — 66 players2026-08-10 08:00 — 21 players2026-08-10 17:00 — 29 players2026-08-11 01:00 — 51 players2026-08-11 09:00 — 24 players2026-08-11 17:00 — 37 players2026-08-13 00:00 — 49 players2026-08-14 08:00 — 16 players2026-08-15 16:00 — 43 players2026-08-17 00:00 — 63 players2026-08-18 07:00 — 21 players2026-08-19 15:00 — 32 players2026-08-20 22:00 — 36 players2026-08-22 06:00 — 25 players2026-08-23 13:00 — 24 players2026-08-24 21:00 — 50 players2026-08-26 05:00 — 24 players2026-08-27 13:00 — 17 players2026-08-28 20:00 — 52 players2026-08-30 03:00 — 81 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

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 pageviews2026-06-03 — 34 pageviews2026-06-06 — 22 pageviews2026-06-09 — 24 pageviews2026-06-12 — 32 pageviews2026-06-15 — 49 pageviews2026-06-18 — 26 pageviews2026-06-21 — 23 pageviews2026-06-24 — 34 pageviews2026-06-27 — 42 pageviews2026-06-30 — 31 pageviews2026-07-03 — 46 pageviews2026-07-06 — 37 pageviews2026-07-09 — 44 pageviews2026-07-12 — 192 pageviews2026-07-15 — 52 pageviews2026-07-18 — 46 pageviews2026-07-21 — 54 pageviews2026-07-24 — 38 pageviews2026-07-27 — 38 pageviews2026-07-30 — 31 pageviews2026-08-02 — 34 pageviews2026-08-05 — 51 pageviews2026-08-08 — 43 pageviews2026-08-11 — 25 pageviews2026-08-14 — 38 pageviews2026-08-17 — 32 pageviews2026-08-20 — 31 pageviews2026-08-23 — 38 pageviews2026-08-26 — 36 pageviews2026-08-27 — 44 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.

Player tags

2DRPGCRPGFunnyComedyPuzzleAdventureControllerLovecraftianInvestigation

Census log

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

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