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The Donnerwald Experiment

Wegenbartho Games · 2019-10-31

Steam

IndieRPGEarly Access

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Third person, Side view

Releases: Oct 31, 2019 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

A mature dreampunk RPG with German folklore, demons galore, interactive combat mechanics and more!

The Donnerwald Experiment is an Indie, RPG, Early Access title released in 2019, priced at $19.99, with an estimated 50,000 .. 100,000 owners and a Positive review sentiment (97% of 30 reviews).

0
playing now
97%
positive of 30 reviews
Positive
steam's rating (official)
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$19.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 20:00 UTC (census sample)

An endless nightmare awaits Johanna Prokuri! She was once a prodigy, capable of creating powerful automatons and other machines.But three years ago, an accident happened during an experiment which resulted in the loss of her creativity. Since then, she's been struggling to develop new ideas. One day a charming mole named Montgomery appears in her dreams. He warns her that a Dream Demon "infected" her during the experiment, the loss of her creativity is just one of the symptoms and she's about to turn into a monster soon. Now the duo is hunting Dream Demons together and try to find a way to (Storyline via IGDB)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 7 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 42% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 63% of 50,052 Indie games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-02

All-time low: $3.99 at Steam (2020-04-11) · bundled 1×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $19.99 · on sale 5 of 10 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
5520192026Week of 2019-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

002026-09-15 20:00 — 0 players2026-09-17 05:00 — 0 players2026-09-18 12:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 20:00 — 0 players2026-09-21 03:00 — 0 players2026-09-22 11:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 18:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 02:00 — 0 players2026-09-26 09:00 — 0 players2026-09-27 17:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 00:00 — 0 players2026-09-30 08:00 — 0 players2026-10-01 15:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 23:00 — 0 players2026-10-04 07:00 — 0 players2026-10-05 15:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 22:00 — 0 players2026-10-08 06:00 — 0 players2026-10-09 13:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 21:00 — 0 players2026-10-12 05:00 — 0 players2026-10-13 12:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 20:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$19.99$3.992019-10-312026-07-272019-10-31 — best price $7.192019-11-07 — best price $7.992020-01-02 — best price $7.992020-04-12 — best price $7.992020-07-09 — best price $7.992020-08-10 — best price $10.992020-10-05 — best price $10.992021-01-05 — best price $10.992021-02-15 — best price $10.992021-07-08 — best price $10.992022-01-05 — best price $10.992022-02-14 — best price $9.792022-06-23 — best price $10.492022-08-29 — best price $9.792022-10-28 — best price $10.492022-11-22 — best price $10.492022-12-22 — best price $10.492023-03-17 — best price $5.592023-05-02 — best price $10.492023-06-22 — best price $10.492023-10-25 — best price $19.992024-03-21 — best price $19.992024-07-11 — best price $19.992024-10-07 — best price $19.992025-07-12 — best price $19.992025-10-06 — best price $19.992025-12-13 — best price $19.992026-01-05 — best price $19.992026-03-26 — best price $19.992026-07-09 — best price $19.992026-07-27 — best price $19.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

16
achievements tracked
22.7%
earned "Lie Lie Lie"
6.3%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerPartial Controller SupportFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Player tags

RPG2.5DJRPGAnimeAction RPGStory RichEarly AccessSingleplayerThird Person2D Platformer

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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