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The Citadel

doekuramori · 2020-08-05

SteamGOG

ActionCasualIndie

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: First person

Releases: Aug 05, 2020 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

The Citadel is a brutal first person shooter, and a love letter to classic games such as Marathon, Doom and Wolfenstein 3d. Descend into the depths of a dark citadel, and fight through 6 Episodes and 30 levels of action packed with 6 challenging bosses. Go forth, Martyr.

93%
positive of 3.1k reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$7.49
steam price (US)

Health check

Healthy
  • · 482 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~60/week).
  • · Review velocity down 14% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 11% of 22,385 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 63k–141k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 3,130 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

lowest across shops (ITAD)$5.84-61%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $4.37 at IndieGala Store (2024-09-14) · bundled 1×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $14.99 · on sale 88 of 130 observed days · $1.47 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
16716720202026Week of 2020-08-01: 136 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 26 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 47 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 36 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 40 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 70 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 63 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 28 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 46 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 50 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 46 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 167 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 52 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 84 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 36 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 134 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 61 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 83 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 52 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 32 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 42 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 46 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 106 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 107 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 63 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 62 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 52 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 55 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 80 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 74 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2026-09-01: 31 positiveWeek of 2026-09-01: 3 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$14.99$3.922020-08-052026-10-012020-08-05 — best price $13.492021-11-24 — best price $9.742022-11-16 — best price $11.012022-12-12 — best price $8.242023-02-02 — best price $11.012023-05-25 — best price $11.012024-02-08 — best price $10.492024-05-01 — best price $7.492024-08-02 — best price $14.992024-09-30 — best price $4.212024-11-01 — best price $6.142024-12-03 — best price $11.012025-01-15 — best price $14.992025-02-13 — best price $7.492025-03-20 — best price $14.992025-04-22 — best price $7.492025-05-25 — best price $14.992025-06-18 — best price $7.492025-07-25 — best price $4.922025-08-19 — best price $4.992025-09-17 — best price $10.252025-10-14 — best price $5.992025-11-14 — best price $6.282025-12-08 — best price $4.992026-01-03 — best price $14.992026-01-26 — best price $14.992026-02-16 — best price $10.252026-03-09 — best price $4.382026-03-23 — best price $10.252026-04-13 — best price $5.992026-05-01 — best price $7.492026-06-09 — best price $14.992026-07-24 — best price $6.072026-09-14 — best price $6.142026-10-01 — best price $5.84
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Where its players are

Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.

Player tags

FPS2.5DGoreAnimeIndieRetro1990'sActionSci-fiShooter

Census log

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

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