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The Cabinets of Doctor Arcana cover art

The Cabinets of Doctor Arcana

Monolith Graphics · 2018-10-05

Steam

AdventureCasualIndie

Modes: Single player

Releases: Oct 05, 2018 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Oct 05, 2018 (Mac)

The Cabinets of Doctor Arcana is a dark adventure game set inside the haunted mansion of a mysterious magician who vanished several years ago. Resolve a maze of riddles and perplexing puzzles to unlock doors and secret passages, or be doomed to spend eternity trapped inside the inescapable mansion.

92%
positive of 60 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
60/100
IGDB user rating (0 ratings)
$9.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 11 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 27% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 64% of 17,101 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 1.5k–3.6k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 60 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $6.99 at Steam (2019-10-28)via IsThereAnyDeal

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
5520182026Week of 2018-10-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$14.99$6.992018-10-062022-01-052018-10-06 — best price $14.992018-12-20 — best price $11.992019-01-04 — best price $14.992019-02-09 — best price $13.042019-02-11 — best price $11.302019-04-12 — best price $9.992019-10-28 — best price $6.992019-11-01 — best price $9.992020-10-29 — best price $7.992020-11-02 — best price $9.992021-10-28 — best price $6.992021-11-01 — best price $9.992021-11-24 — best price $6.992021-12-01 — best price $9.992021-12-22 — best price $6.992022-01-05 — best price $9.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsmacOSSingle-playerFamily Sharing

Player tags

NoirIndieMagicCasualGothicPuzzleMysteryAdventureCinematicHand-drawn

Census log

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

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