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The Underground Man

Mehsoft · 2016-09-01

Steam

AdventureIndie

Modes: Single player

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.

1
playing now
79%
positive of 1.4k reviews
Mostly Positive
steam rating
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
50/100
IGDB user rating (3 ratings)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$1.99
steam price (US)

1 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 03:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 26% of 11,450 Adventure games in the census by review count.
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 3 of 6 observed days (census price snapshots)

Players online

102026-08-06 23:00 — 0 players2026-08-07 07:00 — 0 players2026-08-07 15:00 — 0 players2026-08-07 23:00 — 0 players2026-08-08 07:00 — 0 players2026-08-08 15:00 — 0 players2026-08-08 23:00 — 0 players2026-08-09 07:00 — 1 players2026-08-09 15:00 — 0 players2026-08-09 23:00 — 0 players2026-08-10 07:00 — 0 players2026-08-10 12:00 — 0 players2026-08-10 20:00 — 0 players2026-08-11 04:00 — 0 players2026-08-11 12:00 — 0 players2026-08-12 08:00 — 0 players2026-08-13 15:00 — 0 players2026-08-14 23:00 — 0 players2026-08-16 07:00 — 0 players2026-08-17 14:00 — 0 players2026-08-18 22:00 — 0 players2026-08-20 05:00 — 0 players2026-08-21 13:00 — 0 players2026-08-22 20:00 — 0 players2026-08-24 04:00 — 0 players2026-08-25 12:00 — 0 players2026-08-26 20:00 — 0 players2026-08-28 04:00 — 0 players2026-08-29 12:00 — 0 players2026-08-30 03:00 — 1 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

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.