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Sometimes: Success Requires Sacrifice cover art

Sometimes: Success Requires Sacrifice

Volens Nolens Games · 2015-02-27

Steam

ActionAdventureCasualIndieStrategy

Modes: Single player

Releases: Feb 27, 2015 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Sometimes: Success Requires Sacrifice, the title says it all! You get thrown into a dark room, with no light to be found anywhere! Are you willing to end your life to light the way for the next generation to proceed further? Play it today and find out!

Sometimes: Success Requires Sacrifice is a free-to-play Action, Adventure, Casual, Indie game released in 2015, with an estimated 500,000 to 1,000,000 owners and Mostly Positive reviews (71% of 601 reviews).— census verdict as of 2026-09-20

0
playing now
71%
positive of 600 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
500,000–1,000,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
50/100
IGDB user rating (0 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Free
steam price (US)

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

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 18 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity up 20% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (215 reviews).
  • · Top 19% of 27,808 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-31

All-time low: $0.19 at Steam (2015-10-29) · bundled 9×via IsThereAnyDeal

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
19119120152026Week of 2015-03-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2015-04-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2015-04-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2015-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2015-05-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2015-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2015-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2015-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2015-09-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2015-09-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2015-10-01: 191 positiveWeek of 2015-10-01: 24 negativeWeek of 2015-11-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2015-11-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2015-12-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2015-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2016-01-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2016-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2016-02-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2016-02-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2016-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2016-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2016-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2016-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2016-07-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2016-07-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2016-08-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2016-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2016-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-09-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2016-10-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2016-11-01: 31 positiveWeek of 2016-11-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2016-12-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2016-12-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2017-01-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2017-01-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2017-02-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2017-02-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2017-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2017-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-04-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2017-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2017-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2017-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2017-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2017-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2017-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-08-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2018-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

4802026-09-15 13:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 21:00 — 0 players2026-09-18 05:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 12:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 20:00 — 0 players2026-09-22 03:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 11:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 18:00 — 0 players2026-09-26 02:00 — 1 players2026-09-27 09:00 — 1 players2026-09-28 17:00 — 48 players2026-09-30 00:00 — 0 players2026-10-01 08:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 15:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 23:00 — 1 players2026-10-05 07:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 15:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 22:00 — 0 players2026-10-09 06:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 13:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 21:00 — 1 players2026-10-13 04:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 12:00 — 0 players2026-10-15 04:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
2820Mar 2015Apr 2023Mar 2015 — avg 3 · peak 21May 2015 — avg 1 · peak 6Jul 2015 — avg 1 · peak 5Sep 2015 — avg 25 · peak 215Nov 2015 — avg 10 · peak 78Jan 2016 — avg 3 · peak 13Mar 2016 — avg 2 · peak 14May 2016 — avg 1 · peak 7Jul 2016 — avg 72 · peak 1,559Sep 2016 — avg 5 · peak 25Nov 2016 — avg 25 · peak 567Jan 2017 — avg 3 · peak 11Mar 2017 — avg 9 · peak 206May 2017 — avg 14 · peak 306Jul 2017 — avg 44 · peak 534Sep 2017 — avg 5 · peak 822Nov 2017 — avg 2 · peak 25Jan 2018 — avg 2 · peak 75Mar 2018 — avg 0 · peak 8May 2018 — avg 2 · peak 199Jul 2018 — avg 2 · peak 16Sep 2018 — avg 2 · peak 97Nov 2018 — avg 7 · peak 196Jan 2019 — avg 0 · peak 9Mar 2019 — avg 8 · peak 636May 2019 — avg 0 · peak 4Jul 2019 — avg 0 · peak 14Sep 2019 — avg 1 · peak 129Jul 2020 — avg 1 · peak 4Sep 2020 — avg 1 · peak 3Nov 2020 — avg 0 · peak 2Nov 2021 — avg 2 · peak 37Jan 2022 — avg 1 · peak 37Apr 2023 — avg 2 · peak 33

▼ −8 avg players (−80.8%) vs prior month — Apr 2023

Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$2.99$0.002015-01-012021-09-202015-01-01 — best price $2.492015-02-27 — best price $2.692015-04-23 — best price $1.492015-08-31 — best price $0.292015-09-08 — best price $0.992015-11-02 — best price $0.992016-01-04 — best price $0.992016-02-15 — best price $0.992016-04-25 — best price $0.992016-07-04 — best price $0.992016-08-22 — best price $0.992016-10-24 — best price $0.992016-11-01 — best price $0.992016-11-29 — best price $0.992017-04-17 — best price $0.992017-07-05 — best price $0.992017-08-28 — best price $0.992017-10-30 — best price $0.992018-02-19 — best price $0.992018-05-01 — best price $0.192018-05-16 — best price $0.992018-06-21 — best price $0.492018-07-06 — best price $0.992018-10-30 — best price $0.492019-06-25 — best price $0.492020-06-25 — best price $0.492021-09-20 — best price $0.00
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

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Player tags

IndieActionCasualStrategyAdventure

Census log

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

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