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The Dark Legions

Marcell Baranyai · Mascot Entertainment · 2016-07-09

Steam

IndieStrategy

Modes: Single player

Releases: Jul 09, 2016 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

The Dark Legions is a 3d real-time strategy game in the medieval ages. You can command your army and build your empire through story driven missions. Or you can prove your strength against computer players, on randomly generated missions.

The Dark Legions is a 2016 Indie, Strategy game priced at $1.99, with an owner estimate of 20,000 .. 50,000 and a Very Positive review sentiment (86% of 174 reviews).

1
playing now
86%
positive of 174 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
60/100
IGDB user rating (0 ratings)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$1.99
steam price (US)

1 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 23:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 1 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 10 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 29% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 27% of 49,684 Indie games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-01

Estimated sales: 4.3k–10k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 174 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.99 at Steam (2016-12-22) · bundled 1×via IsThereAnyDeal

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
6620162026Week of 2016-07-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2016-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2016-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2016-09-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2016-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2016-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-04-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2017-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

1102026-09-15 08:00 — 2 players2026-09-16 16:00 — 1 players2026-09-18 00:00 — 1 players2026-09-19 07:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 15:00 — 2 players2026-09-21 23:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 06:00 — 2 players2026-09-24 14:00 — 1 players2026-09-25 21:00 — 4 players2026-09-27 05:00 — 2 players2026-09-28 12:00 — 5 players2026-09-29 20:00 — 3 players2026-10-01 03:00 — 2 players2026-10-02 11:00 — 5 players2026-10-03 18:00 — 11 players2026-10-05 02:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 10:00 — 1 players2026-10-07 17:00 — 3 players2026-10-09 01:00 — 1 players2026-10-10 08:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 16:00 — 1 players2026-10-13 00:00 — 2 players2026-10-14 07:00 — 1 players2026-10-14 23:00 — 1 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
61Jul 2016Sep 2025Jul 2016 — avg 4 · peak 17Oct 2016 — avg 1 · peak 6Jan 2017 — avg 2 · peak 7Apr 2017 — avg 1 · peak 7Jul 2017 — avg 2 · peak 7Oct 2017 — avg 1 · peak 7Jan 2018 — avg 1 · peak 5Apr 2018 — avg 1 · peak 6Jul 2018 — avg 1 · peak 6Oct 2018 — avg 1 · peak 3Jan 2019 — avg 1 · peak 6Apr 2019 — avg 1 · peak 6Jul 2019 — avg 1 · peak 6Oct 2019 — avg 1 · peak 5Jan 2020 — avg 1 · peak 5Apr 2020 — avg 2 · peak 7Aug 2020 — avg 1 · peak 6Nov 2020 — avg 2 · peak 6Feb 2021 — avg 2 · peak 7May 2021 — avg 2 · peak 6Aug 2021 — avg 2 · peak 8Nov 2021 — avg 2 · peak 7Feb 2022 — avg 3 · peak 8May 2022 — avg 2 · peak 8Aug 2022 — avg 2 · peak 6Nov 2022 — avg 2 · peak 6Feb 2023 — avg 2 · peak 6Jun 2023 — avg 2 · peak 6Oct 2023 — avg 2 · peak 7Jan 2024 — avg 2 · peak 7Apr 2024 — avg 2 · peak 5Jul 2024 — avg 2 · peak 7Feb 2025 — avg 2 · peak 8Sep 2025 — avg 3 · peak 9
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$1.99$0.992016-07-102025-03-202016-07-10 — best price $1.992016-08-12 — best price $1.992016-09-29 — best price $1.952016-11-29 — best price $1.392016-12-22 — best price $0.992017-01-02 — best price $1.992017-05-01 — best price $0.992017-05-08 — best price $1.992017-06-22 — best price $0.992017-07-05 — best price $1.992017-10-27 — best price $1.192017-11-01 — best price $1.992017-11-06 — best price $0.992017-11-13 — best price $1.992017-11-22 — best price $1.792017-11-28 — best price $1.992017-12-21 — best price $1.392018-01-04 — best price $1.992018-06-22 — best price $1.152018-07-05 — best price $1.992019-01-10 — best price $0.992019-01-25 — best price $1.992025-01-20 — best price $1.492025-01-27 — best price $1.992025-03-13 — best price $1.392025-03-20 — best price $1.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam Trading CardsFamily Sharing

5 supported languages: English, German, Hungarian, Polish, Russian

Player tags

RTSIndieMedievalStrategy

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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