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Sinister City

Jetdogs Studios · 2014-10-20

Steam

AdventureCasualIndie

Modes: Single player

Releases: Oct 18, 2014 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Who would name their town Sinister City? Vampires, of course! When John discovers his bride-to-be has been kidnapped by Sinister City's number one bloodsucker, there's only one thing to do - search for hidden objects! And kill vampires! Or at least insult them until they give your girl back.

2
playing now
66%
positive of 1.6k reviews
Mixed
steam rating
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
50/100
IGDB user rating (4 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$0.99
steam price (US)

2 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 03:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 24% of 11,312 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 40k–96k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 1,594 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

lowest across shops (ITAD)$0.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $0.09 at Steam (2015-08-24) · bundled 12×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $0.99 · on sale 8 of 16 observed days (census price snapshots)

Players online

502026-08-06 23:00 — 0 players2026-08-07 07:00 — 0 players2026-08-07 15:00 — 0 players2026-08-07 23:00 — 0 players2026-08-08 07:00 — 1 players2026-08-08 15:00 — 0 players2026-08-08 23:00 — 0 players2026-08-09 07:00 — 0 players2026-08-09 15:00 — 0 players2026-08-09 23:00 — 0 players2026-08-10 07:00 — 0 players2026-08-10 15:00 — 0 players2026-08-10 23:00 — 1 players2026-08-11 07:00 — 0 players2026-08-11 15:00 — 1 players2026-08-12 23:00 — 0 players2026-08-14 06:00 — 2 players2026-08-15 14:00 — 2 players2026-08-16 22:00 — 4 players2026-08-18 06:00 — 0 players2026-08-19 13:00 — 2 players2026-08-20 21:00 — 0 players2026-08-22 04:00 — 0 players2026-08-23 12:00 — 0 players2026-08-24 20:00 — 0 players2026-08-26 04:00 — 0 players2026-08-27 12:00 — 0 players2026-08-28 19:00 — 0 players2026-08-30 03:00 — 2 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$10.95$0.002015-01-012026-08-172015-01-01 — best price $2.392015-05-12 — best price $0.972015-06-24 — best price $0.992015-09-21 — best price $0.292015-11-09 — best price $0.092016-01-04 — best price $0.992016-06-06 — best price $0.492016-08-15 — best price $0.992016-11-23 — best price $0.492017-01-02 — best price $0.992017-04-24 — best price $0.992017-10-16 — best price $0.492017-11-28 — best price $0.992018-02-15 — best price $0.492018-07-05 — best price $0.992018-11-01 — best price $0.992019-01-14 — best price $0.492019-03-25 — best price $0.992019-07-09 — best price $0.992019-12-19 — best price $0.492020-04-06 — best price $0.992020-11-25 — best price $0.492021-02-15 — best price $0.992021-11-24 — best price $0.492022-02-03 — best price $0.992022-11-22 — best price $0.692023-01-16 — best price $0.992023-04-17 — best price $0.692023-07-13 — best price $0.992023-12-11 — best price $0.692024-03-04 — best price $0.992024-10-28 — best price $0.692025-01-02 — best price $0.992025-06-27 — best price $0.692025-10-06 — best price $0.992026-02-02 — best price $0.692026-04-16 — best price $0.992026-08-17 — best price $0.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

17
achievements tracked
24.7%
earned "NIGHT VISION"
16.2%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam Trading CardsSteam CloudFamily Sharing1 DLC

9 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Portuguese - Portugal, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)3,51940%17

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

Player tags

IndieCasualHorrorPuzzleMysteryVampireAdventureMouse onlySingleplayerHidden Object

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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