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Time Walker: Dark World

Heartfun · Leyo Games · 2023-11-29

Steam

IndieStrategy

Modes: Single player

Releases: Nov 29, 2023 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Nov 21, 2024 (Nintendo Switch)

Time Walker Dark World is a roguelike auto-battler with strategic combat. Players will need to adjust their formations, plan their resources, acquire loot, and upgrade skills to defeat formidable enemies and vicious bosses.

Time Walker: Dark World is a 2023 Indie, Strategy game priced at $4.99, with an estimated 200,000 .. 500,000 owners and Very Positive (86% of 1509 reviews).

5
playing now
86%
positive of 1.5k reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$4.99
steam price (US)

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

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 5 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 50 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~6/week).
  • · Review velocity down 21% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (565 reviews).
  • · Top 8% of 49,583 Indie games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-31

Estimated sales: 30k–68k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 1,509 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $2.14 at Fanatical (2025-11-21) · bundled 1×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $4.99 · on sale 41 of 59 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
49949920222026Week of 2022-09-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 79 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 18 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 32 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 499 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 66 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 57 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 28 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 108 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 41 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 49 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 35 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 2 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

1112026-09-14 22:00 — 1 players2026-09-16 07:00 — 2 players2026-09-17 14:00 — 8 players2026-09-18 22:00 — 1 players2026-09-20 05:00 — 8 players2026-09-21 13:00 — 11 players2026-09-22 21:00 — 1 players2026-09-24 04:00 — 3 players2026-09-25 12:00 — 2 players2026-09-26 19:00 — 6 players2026-09-28 03:00 — 9 players2026-09-29 10:00 — 3 players2026-09-30 18:00 — 3 players2026-10-02 01:00 — 4 players2026-10-03 09:00 — 7 players2026-10-04 17:00 — 10 players2026-10-06 00:00 — 3 players2026-10-07 08:00 — 3 players2026-10-08 15:00 — 3 players2026-10-09 23:00 — 5 players2026-10-11 06:00 — 9 players2026-10-12 14:00 — 8 players2026-10-13 22:00 — 3 players2026-10-14 13:00 — 5 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
7742Oct 2022Aug 2026Oct 2022 — avg 13 · peak 371Dec 2022 — avg 3 · peak 13Jul 2023 — avg 12 · peak 61Sep 2023 — avg 110 · peak 749Nov 2023 — avg 30 · peak 1,641Jan 2024 — avg 134 · peak 378Mar 2024 — avg 96 · peak 298May 2024 — avg 42 · peak 122Jul 2024 — avg 94 · peak 277Sep 2024 — avg 80 · peak 206Nov 2024 — avg 33 · peak 75Jan 2025 — avg 30 · peak 74Mar 2025 — avg 19 · peak 49May 2025 — avg 20 · peak 77Jul 2025 — avg 15 · peak 39Sep 2025 — avg 12 · peak 36Nov 2025 — avg 16 · peak 41Jan 2026 — avg 16 · peak 49Mar 2026 — avg 9 · peak 26May 2026 — avg 6 · peak 17Jul 2026 — avg 8 · peak 24Aug 2026 — avg 6 · peak 18
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$4.99$2.142023-12-152026-08-212023-12-15 — best price $4.992024-01-30 — best price $4.492024-02-27 — best price $4.242024-03-15 — best price $4.242024-04-08 — best price $2.842024-05-10 — best price $3.342024-05-29 — best price $4.392024-07-01 — best price $3.662024-07-23 — best price $3.892024-09-02 — best price $4.992024-10-08 — best price $4.992024-11-02 — best price $3.892024-11-27 — best price $2.992024-12-14 — best price $3.662025-01-02 — best price $4.992025-01-22 — best price $4.992025-02-13 — best price $3.992025-03-13 — best price $2.792025-04-14 — best price $3.242025-05-10 — best price $3.662025-06-03 — best price $3.892025-06-28 — best price $4.992025-07-26 — best price $3.662025-08-18 — best price $2.192025-09-28 — best price $4.992025-10-14 — best price $2.322025-11-13 — best price $2.992025-11-26 — best price $4.992025-12-18 — best price $3.242026-01-19 — best price $2.142026-02-11 — best price $3.492026-03-09 — best price $2.142026-03-27 — best price $3.662026-04-06 — best price $4.992026-05-22 — best price $2.792026-06-25 — best price $2.742026-07-15 — best price $3.892026-08-21 — best price $3.89
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

44
achievements tracked
86.3%
earned "The Childhood"
22.2%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam CloudFamily Sharing1 DLC

4 supported languages: English, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2023-12-13 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)8765%44

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

Player tags

IndieFantasyStrategyTop-DownRogue-liteAuto BattlerEarly AccessSingleplayerChoices MatterPixel Graphics

Census log

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

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