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The Death | Thần Trùng cover art

The Death | Thần Trùng

DUT Studio · 2022-09-14

Steam

AdventureCasualIndie

Modes: Single player

Releases: Sep 15, 2022 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

The Death | Thần Trùng is a Viet Nam psychological horror adventure game made by three Vietnamese people from a tiny indie studio. The game takes place in Hanoi city in 2022.

2
playing now
91%
positive of 3.0k reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$5.99
steam price (US)

2 players in-game as of 2026-08-29 12:00 UTC (census sample)

The game takes place in the city of Hanoi in 2022. The player takes the role of an ordinary young man, when one day indescribable mysterious events suddenly happen to him. Of course, there is no smoke without fire — everything has a reason for it...(Storyline via IGDB)

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 2 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 29 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~4/week).
  • · Review velocity down 42% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (2,349 reviews).
  • · Top 17% of 11,362 Adventure games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-30

Estimated sales: 60k–134k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 2,983 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $2.39 at Steam (2024-10-28)via IsThereAnyDeal

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
2.2k2.2k20222026Week of 2022-09-01: 2,211 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 138 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 76 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 16 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 113 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 2 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

702026-08-07 00:00 — 1 players2026-08-07 08:00 — 4 players2026-08-07 16:00 — 5 players2026-08-08 00:00 — 1 players2026-08-08 08:00 — 0 players2026-08-08 16:00 — 6 players2026-08-09 00:00 — 0 players2026-08-09 08:00 — 2 players2026-08-09 16:00 — 2 players2026-08-10 00:00 — 0 players2026-08-10 08:00 — 0 players2026-08-10 17:00 — 5 players2026-08-11 01:00 — 0 players2026-08-11 09:00 — 2 players2026-08-11 17:00 — 4 players2026-08-13 00:00 — 1 players2026-08-14 08:00 — 2 players2026-08-15 16:00 — 7 players2026-08-17 00:00 — 0 players2026-08-18 07:00 — 3 players2026-08-19 15:00 — 5 players2026-08-20 22:00 — 0 players2026-08-22 06:00 — 4 players2026-08-23 13:00 — 5 players2026-08-24 21:00 — 1 players2026-08-26 05:00 — 0 players2026-08-27 13:00 — 1 players2026-08-28 20:00 — 1 players2026-08-29 12:00 — 2 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$5.99$2.392022-09-152024-11-042022-09-15 — best price $5.992022-10-25 — best price $5.092022-11-01 — best price $5.992023-03-06 — best price $4.192023-03-13 — best price $5.992023-03-16 — best price $5.392023-03-17 — best price $4.792023-03-23 — best price $5.992023-04-24 — best price $4.072023-05-01 — best price $5.992023-06-05 — best price $4.612023-06-12 — best price $5.992023-06-30 — best price $3.892023-07-13 — best price $5.992023-08-28 — best price $3.892023-09-04 — best price $5.992023-10-26 — best price $4.372023-11-02 — best price $5.992023-12-04 — best price $5.392023-12-11 — best price $5.992023-12-22 — best price $4.792024-01-04 — best price $5.992024-02-05 — best price $4.192024-02-12 — best price $5.992024-03-18 — best price $4.792024-03-25 — best price $5.992024-04-29 — best price $4.792024-05-06 — best price $5.992024-06-10 — best price $4.492024-06-17 — best price $5.992024-07-06 — best price $5.092024-07-11 — best price $5.992024-07-29 — best price $5.092024-08-05 — best price $5.992024-09-16 — best price $4.792024-09-23 — best price $5.992024-10-28 — best price $2.392024-11-04 — best price $5.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

2
achievements tracked
0.9%
earned "True Ending"
0.9%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerFamily Sharing

4 supported languages: English, Simplified Chinese, Vietnamese, Japanese

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)11100%2

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

Player tags

3DFunnyIndieCasualHorrorPuzzleMysteryAdventureRealisticStory Rich

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.