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The Dark Eye : Book of Heroes cover art

The Dark Eye : Book of Heroes

Random Potion Oy · Wild River Games · 2020-06-09

Steam

RPG

Franchise: The Dark Eye · Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative · Perspectives: Bird view / Isometric

Releases: Jun 09, 2020 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Experience classical role-playing together with your friends in a co-op multiplayer RPG based on THE DARK EYE license that lets you engage in party-based adventures in the fantasy world of Aventuria.

The Dark Eye : Book of Heroes is an RPG game released in 2020, priced at $9.99, with an estimated 20,000 to 50,000 owners and a Mostly Negative review sentiment (40% of 207 reviews).

0
playing now
40%
positive of 207 reviews
Mostly Negative
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
40/100
IGDB user rating (0 ratings)
1
Nexus mods (22 downloads)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$9.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 07:00 UTC (census sample)

The Dark Eye: Book of Heroes is a role-playing video game developed by Finnish studio Random Potion and published by Wild River Games for Microsoft Windows. It is set in the world of The Dark Eye by Ulisses Spiele. The game was released on 9 June 2020, and received mostly average to negative reviews, though it was said to be quite an accurate representation of the tabletop role-playing experience of The Dark Eye.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 14 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity up 40% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (115 reviews).
  • · Top 35% of 13,891 RPG games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-01

Estimated sales: 4.1k–9.3k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 207 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $1.99 at Steam (2023-03-16)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $9.99 · on sale 1 of 2 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
737320202025Week of 2020-06-01: 42 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 73 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

102026-09-15 08:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 16:00 — 0 players2026-09-18 00:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 07:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 15:00 — 0 players2026-09-21 22:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 06:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 13:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 21:00 — 0 players2026-09-27 04:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 12:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 19:00 — 0 players2026-10-01 03:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 10:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 18:00 — 0 players2026-10-05 02:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 10:00 — 1 players2026-10-07 17:00 — 0 players2026-10-09 01:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 08:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 16:00 — 0 players2026-10-13 00:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 07:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$29.99$1.992020-06-092026-03-262020-06-09 — best price $29.992020-10-29 — best price $4.992020-11-25 — best price $4.992020-12-22 — best price $4.992021-02-11 — best price $5.992021-06-24 — best price $5.992021-08-20 — best price $9.992021-10-25 — best price $9.992021-12-01 — best price $9.992022-01-05 — best price $9.992022-02-03 — best price $9.992022-07-07 — best price $9.992022-11-29 — best price $9.992023-01-05 — best price $9.992023-03-23 — best price $9.992023-07-13 — best price $9.992023-11-28 — best price $9.992024-01-04 — best price $9.992024-03-21 — best price $9.992024-05-20 — best price $9.992024-07-11 — best price $9.992025-01-02 — best price $9.992025-07-10 — best price $9.992026-03-26 — best price $9.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

1812026-06-01 — 2 pageviews2026-06-05 — 4 pageviews2026-06-09 — 4 pageviews2026-06-13 — 3 pageviews2026-06-17 — 2 pageviews2026-06-21 — 4 pageviews2026-06-25 — 3 pageviews2026-06-29 — 5 pageviews2026-07-03 — 8 pageviews2026-07-07 — 2 pageviews2026-07-11 — 2 pageviews2026-07-15 — 6 pageviews2026-07-19 — 5 pageviews2026-07-23 — 4 pageviews2026-07-27 — 7 pageviews2026-07-31 — 3 pageviews2026-08-04 — 6 pageviews2026-08-08 — 4 pageviews2026-08-12 — 6 pageviews2026-08-16 — 5 pageviews2026-08-20 — 6 pageviews2026-08-24 — 8 pageviews2026-08-28 — 6 pageviews2026-09-01 — 6 pageviews2026-09-05 — 7 pageviews2026-09-09 — 4 pageviews2026-09-13 — 18 pageviews2026-09-17 — 1 pageviews2026-09-21 — 2 pageviews2026-09-25 — 6 pageviews2026-09-29 — 6 pageviews2026-10-03 — 7 pageviews2026-10-07 — 5 pageviews2026-10-10 — 5 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

60+
achievements tracked
55.6%
earned "Goblin Raiders"
4.1%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerMulti-playerCo-opOnline Co-opLAN Co-opSteam AchievementsFamily Sharing

3 supported languages: English, German, Russian

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)626%67

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

Player tags

RPGCo-opIndieFantasyTabletopAdventureOld SchoolRogue-likeMultiplayerSingleplayer

Census log

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

Players also track

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Similarity via IGDB.

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