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The Occultist

DALOAR · Daedalic Entertainment · 2026-04-08

Steam

ActionAdventureIndie

Modes: Single player

The Occultist is a first-person narrative thriller. You play as Alan Rebels, a paranormal investigator who travels to an abandoned British island after his father's disappearance. Explore Godstone island, face supernatural entities, and uncover long-buried occult rituals.

76%
positive of 360 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam rating
10h
to beat · rushed 8h · completionist 12h
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$20.99
steam price (US)

In The Occultist, paranormal investigator Alan Rebels travels to the mysterious island of GodStone to determine the cause of the sudden disappearance of his father. Even though he mentioned the island repeatedly over the decades, all that Alan really knows is that his father was born and spent his early years there. However, Alan does not travel alone. He carries with him his mystical pendulum, an object of unknown origin that accompanied him on all his past paranormal investigations. As he explores the foggy streets and maddening buildings, apparently being the only things that remain on the (Storyline via IGDB)

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 31 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~4/week).
  • · Review velocity down 21% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (106 reviews).
  • · Top 48% of 11,634 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 7.2k16k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 360 total reviews — how this is computed.

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
797920262026Week of 2026-04-08: 79 positiveWeek of 2026-04-08: 27 negativeWeek of 2026-04-15: 27 positiveWeek of 2026-04-15: 7 negativeWeek of 2026-04-22: 14 positiveWeek of 2026-04-22: 6 negativeWeek of 2026-04-29: 8 positiveWeek of 2026-04-29: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-05-06: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-05-06: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-05-13: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-05-13: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-05-20: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-05-20: 5 negativeWeek of 2026-05-27: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-05-27: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-06-03: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-06-03: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-10: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-17: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-06-17: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-24: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-06-24: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-07-08: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-07-08: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-07-15: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-07-15: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-22: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-29: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-07-29: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-08-05: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-08-12: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-08-26: 2 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Completion

24
achievements tracked
92%
earned "See through the glass"
29.9%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam Trading CardsDualShock Controller SupportDualShock Controller SupportDualSense Controller SupportDualSense Controller SupportSteam Input API SupportSteam Cloud2 DLC

13 supported languages: English, Spanish - Spain, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Italian, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Spanish - Latin America

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)2077%24
PS5 (PlayStation)20129%25
Xbox Series (Xbox)4210%25

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

Census log

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

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