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The Castles of Dr. Creep cover art

The Castles of Dr. Creep

Ed Hobbs · Strobs Canardly · 2016-09-02

Steam

CasualIndie

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative · Perspectives: Side view

Explore thirteen different castles, overcoming a variety of puzzles and traps while you attempt to escape

92%
positive of 52 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
$2.99
steam price (US)
The Castles of Dr. Creep is a puzzle-platform game for the Commodore 64 written by Ed Hobbs and published by Broderbund in 1984. It takes place in thirteen medieval castles owned by the eponymous doctor, and the player's task is to escape from each castle. One- or two-player games are possible, allowing collaborative gaming for solving the puzzles. It was re-released via Steam on September 2, 2016, and Xbox on February 26, 2023

Health check

Quiet
  • · 8 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 33% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 53% of 19,216 Casual games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 1.3k–3.1k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 52 total reviews — how this is computed.

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
4420162026Week of 2016-09-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2016-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-10-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Attention

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Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxSingle-playerMulti-playerCo-opShared/Split Screen Co-opSteam AchievementsPartial Controller SupportSteam CloudSteam LeaderboardsRemote Play TogetherFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Player tags

IndieRetroCasualPuzzleMedievalPixel GraphicsPuzzle-Platformer

Census log

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

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