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Skel Dungeon: Heroes Must Die! cover art

Skel Dungeon: Heroes Must Die!

Buff Studio · 2024-10-21

Steam

IndieRPGSimulationStrategy

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Bird view / Isometric

Releases: Oct 21, 2024 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Skel Dungeon is a real-time strategy defense game. Become a small skeleton and defeat the heroes invading your dungeon. Set up and upgrade trap rooms, expand your dungeon, and strengthen your skeleton to stand against increasingly powerful heroes.

Skel Dungeon: Heroes Must Die! is an Indie, RPG, Simulation, Strategy game released in 2024, priced at $3.59, with an estimated 50,000 .. 100,000 owners and a Mixed review sentiment (65% of 17 reviews).

0
playing now
65%
positive of 17 reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$3.59
steam price (US)

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

Health check

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 81% of 49,548 Indie games in the census by review count.

All-time low: $2.69 at Steam (2025-09-29)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $8.99 · on sale 10 of 18 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
4420242025Week of 2024-10-22: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-10-22: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-10-29: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-11-12: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-12-10: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-01-07: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

002026-09-15 05:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 13:00 — 0 players2026-09-17 21:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 04:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 12:00 — 0 players2026-09-21 19:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 03:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 10:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 18:00 — 0 players2026-09-27 01:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 09:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 16:00 — 0 players2026-10-01 00:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 07:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 15:00 — 0 players2026-10-04 23:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 07:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 14:00 — 0 players2026-10-08 22:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 05:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 13:00 — 0 players2026-10-12 20:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 04:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 20:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$8.99$2.692024-10-222026-08-242024-10-22 — best price $8.092024-11-27 — best price $7.642024-12-19 — best price $7.192025-01-06 — best price $7.642025-02-17 — best price $7.192025-03-13 — best price $6.292025-04-21 — best price $4.492025-06-02 — best price $4.492025-06-27 — best price $3.592025-07-14 — best price $3.592025-08-25 — best price $3.592025-09-29 — best price $2.692025-10-27 — best price $2.692025-12-18 — best price $2.692026-01-12 — best price $8.992026-02-23 — best price $8.992026-03-26 — best price $8.992026-04-06 — best price $8.992026-05-18 — best price $8.992026-07-09 — best price $8.992026-07-20 — best price $8.992026-08-24 — best price $3.59
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

45
achievements tracked
91.7%
earned "Trap Room Collector"
22.2%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsDualShock Controller SupportDualShock Controller SupportDualSense Controller SupportDualSense Controller SupportSteam Input API SupportPartial Controller SupportFamily Sharing

8 supported languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Korean

Player tags

2DRTSActionFantasyMedievalStrategyStylizedTacticalAction RTSHand-drawn

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.