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Secret Sorcery Limited · 2017-02-27

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IndieStrategy

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Virtual Reality

Releases: Oct 25, 2016 (PlayStation 4), Feb 27, 2017 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), TBD (PlayStation VR)

Thirteen unique islands await your guiding hand in this beautiful and engrossing real-time strategy game, unlike anything you have experienced before!

81%
positive of 211 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
75/100
critic score (3 outlets, IGDB)
80/100
IGDB user rating (1 ratings)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$18.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 8 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity up 0% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (38 reviews).
  • · Top 26% of 43,967 Indie games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 5.3k–13k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 211 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $2.84 at Steam (2021-06-24) · bundled 1×via IsThereAnyDeal

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
373720172026Week of 2017-02-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2017-03-01: 37 positiveWeek of 2017-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-04-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2017-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2017-06-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2017-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2017-07-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2017-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2017-09-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2017-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-10-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2017-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2019-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Completion

31
achievements tracked
76.1%
earned "Ten Shun"
2.6%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportTracked Controller SupportVR SupportedSteam Trading CardsSteam LeaderboardsRemote Play on TVFamily Sharing1 DLC

6 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2017-02-27 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
PS4 (PlayStation)1,3430%32
Steam (Steam)5490%31

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

Player tags

VRRTSCuteIndiePuzzleBuildingGod GameLemmingsStrategyStylized

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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