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The Underground Man

Mehsoft · 2016-09-01

Steam

AdventureIndie

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Side view, Text

Releases: Sep 01, 2016 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Sep 01, 2016 (Mac)

Moscow: somewhere in the near future. The city and perhaps the Earth's surface has turned into a radioactive ash. Those who decided that they could not exist in such conditions began to live under the ground.

The Underground Man is an Adventure, Indie game released in 2016, priced at $1.99, with an estimated 200,000 .. 500,000 owners and a Mostly Positive review sentiment (79% of 1380 reviews).

0
playing now
79%
positive of 1.4k reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
50/100
IGDB user rating (3 ratings)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$1.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 13:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 13 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity up 0% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (41 reviews).
  • · Top 11% of 28,879 Adventure games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-31

Estimated sales: 35k–83k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 1,380 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.29 at Steam (2023-06-29)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $1.99 · on sale 2 of 4 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
292920172026Week of 2017-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2017-07-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2017-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2017-08-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2017-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2017-09-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2017-10-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2017-10-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2017-11-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2017-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-03-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2018-05-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 17 negativeWeek of 2018-06-01: 26 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2018-07-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2018-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2018-09-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-10-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-11-01: 29 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2018-12-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2019-01-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2019-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2019-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2019-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

202026-09-15 14:00 — 2 players2026-09-16 23:00 — 1 players2026-09-18 06:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 14:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 21:00 — 0 players2026-09-22 05:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 12:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 20:00 — 0 players2026-09-26 03:00 — 0 players2026-09-27 11:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 18:00 — 0 players2026-09-30 02:00 — 0 players2026-10-01 09:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 17:00 — 0 players2026-10-04 01:00 — 0 players2026-10-05 09:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 16:00 — 2 players2026-10-08 00:00 — 0 players2026-10-09 07:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 15:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 22:00 — 0 players2026-10-13 06:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 13:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$4.99$0.292016-09-012026-07-092016-09-01 — best price $4.992016-11-29 — best price $4.992017-01-02 — best price $4.992018-05-28 — best price $4.992018-07-05 — best price $1.992019-01-04 — best price $1.992020-01-02 — best price $1.992021-01-05 — best price $1.992021-02-15 — best price $1.992021-07-08 — best price $1.992022-01-05 — best price $1.992022-02-03 — best price $1.992022-07-07 — best price $1.992022-11-29 — best price $1.992023-01-05 — best price $1.992023-03-23 — best price $1.992023-07-13 — best price $1.992024-01-04 — best price $1.992024-07-11 — best price $1.992024-12-04 — best price $1.992025-01-02 — best price $1.992025-03-20 — best price $1.992025-07-10 — best price $1.992025-10-06 — best price $1.992026-01-05 — best price $1.992026-07-09 — best price $1.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

28
achievements tracked
18%
earned "A smart purchase"
2.8%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam Trading CardsFamily Sharing1 DLC

2 supported languages: English, Russian

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2016-09-01 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)1,0672%28

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

Player tags

2DRPGIndieMemesRetroClassicSurvivalAdventureStory RichAtmospheric

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.