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The Death | Thần Trùng cover art

The Death | Thần Trùng

DUT Studio · 2022-09-14

Steam

AdventureCasualIndie

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: First person

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.

The Death | Thần Trùng is an Adventure, Casual and Indie game released in 2022, priced at $5.99, with an estimated 200,000 to 500,000 owners and a Very Positive review sentiment (91% of 2983 reviews).

2
playing now
91%
positive of 3.0k reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$5.99
steam price (US)

2 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 13:00 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 7% of 28,914 Adventure games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-30

Estimated sales: 60k–134k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 2,982 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

402026-09-15 14:00 — 1 players2026-09-16 22:00 — 0 players2026-09-18 06:00 — 1 players2026-09-19 13:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 21:00 — 1 players2026-09-22 04:00 — 1 players2026-09-23 12:00 — 3 players2026-09-24 19:00 — 0 players2026-09-26 03:00 — 0 players2026-09-27 10:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 18:00 — 2 players2026-09-30 01:00 — 0 players2026-10-01 09:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 16:00 — 3 players2026-10-04 00:00 — 0 players2026-10-05 08:00 — 2 players2026-10-06 16:00 — 1 players2026-10-07 23:00 — 1 players2026-10-09 07:00 — 1 players2026-10-10 14:00 — 1 players2026-10-11 22:00 — 0 players2026-10-13 05:00 — 2 players2026-10-14 13:00 — 2 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
2442Sep 2022Apr 2026Sep 2022 — avg 244 · peak 2,882Oct 2022 — avg 25 · peak 184Nov 2022 — avg 8 · peak 30Dec 2022 — avg 5 · peak 22Jan 2023 — avg 6 · peak 20Feb 2023 — avg 4 · peak 16Mar 2023 — avg 4 · peak 15Apr 2023 — avg 4 · peak 17May 2023 — avg 3 · peak 12Jun 2023 — avg 5 · peak 19Jul 2023 — avg 6 · peak 20Aug 2023 — avg 3 · peak 15Sep 2023 — avg 4 · peak 18Oct 2023 — avg 3 · peak 9Nov 2023 — avg 3 · peak 10Dec 2023 — avg 3 · peak 9Jan 2024 — avg 2 · peak 7Feb 2024 — avg 3 · peak 11Mar 2024 — avg 2 · peak 10Jun 2024 — avg 2 · peak 8Aug 2024 — avg 2 · peak 11Sep 2024 — avg 2 · peak 8Oct 2024 — avg 7 · peak 52Nov 2024 — avg 11 · peak 45Dec 2024 — avg 3 · peak 14Jan 2025 — avg 3 · peak 11Aug 2025 — avg 3 · peak 8Sep 2025 — avg 3 · peak 10Nov 2025 — avg 3 · peak 19Apr 2026 — avg 3 · peak 15
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

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.

Where its players are

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

Player tags

3DFunnyIndieCasualHorrorPuzzleMysteryAdventureRealisticStory Rich

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.