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神都不良探 Underdog Detective

天津芸芸科技有限公司 · 2022-04-27

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AdventureIndieRPGSimulationStrategy

Modes: Single player

Releases: Jun 29, 2023 (PlayStation 5), Apr 28, 2022 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Apr 28, 2022 (Mac)

Underdog Detective is a video-based playable, interactive story Set in the reign of Empress Wu Zetian of ancient China, you will play as a slum dweller in the imperial capital of Luoyang and embark on a thrilling yet comedic adventure! Traps and conspiracies, comradery and your unknown origin...

神都不良探 Underdog Detective is an Adventure, Indie, RPG, Simulation game released in 2022, priced at $7.99, with a Mostly Positive review sentiment (73% of 2860 reviews) and an estimated owner base of 200,000 .. 500,000.

1
playing now
73%
positive of 2.9k reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
silver
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unsupported
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Unsupported
$7.99
steam price (US)

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

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 1 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 36 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~5/week).
  • · Review velocity down 25% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (1,172 reviews).
  • · Top 8% of 28,832 Adventure games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-29

Estimated sales: 57k–129k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 2,860 total reviews — how this is computed.

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
81481420222026Week of 2022-04-01: 282 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 191 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 814 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 358 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 102 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 38 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 87 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 20 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 56 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 28 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 73 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 36 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 72 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 43 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 32 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 39 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 35 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 29 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

302026-09-15 14:00 — 3 players2026-09-16 22:00 — 1 players2026-09-18 06:00 — 1 players2026-09-19 13:00 — 3 players2026-09-20 21:00 — 2 players2026-09-22 04:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 12:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 19:00 — 1 players2026-09-26 03:00 — 1 players2026-09-27 10:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 18:00 — 0 players2026-09-30 01:00 — 1 players2026-10-01 09:00 — 2 players2026-10-02 16:00 — 0 players2026-10-04 00:00 — 1 players2026-10-05 08:00 — 1 players2026-10-06 16:00 — 1 players2026-10-07 23:00 — 0 players2026-10-09 07:00 — 1 players2026-10-10 14:00 — 2 players2026-10-11 22:00 — 0 players2026-10-13 05:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 13:00 — 1 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
2402May 2022Jul 2026May 2022 — avg 240 · peak 1,521Jun 2022 — avg 58 · peak 196Jul 2022 — avg 36 · peak 105Aug 2022 — avg 20 · peak 53Sep 2022 — avg 14 · peak 49Oct 2022 — avg 13 · peak 59Nov 2022 — avg 12 · peak 41Dec 2022 — avg 13 · peak 56Jan 2023 — avg 20 · peak 68Feb 2023 — avg 16 · peak 54Mar 2023 — avg 11 · peak 40Apr 2023 — avg 10 · peak 39May 2023 — avg 10 · peak 31Jun 2023 — avg 8 · peak 25Jul 2023 — avg 12 · peak 40Aug 2023 — avg 9 · peak 26Sep 2023 — avg 10 · peak 33Oct 2023 — avg 14 · peak 50Nov 2023 — avg 12 · peak 45Dec 2023 — avg 6 · peak 23Jan 2024 — avg 6 · peak 21Feb 2024 — avg 8 · peak 28Mar 2024 — avg 6 · peak 19Apr 2024 — avg 6 · peak 22May 2024 — avg 4 · peak 14Jun 2024 — avg 4 · peak 17Jul 2024 — avg 4 · peak 17Aug 2024 — avg 4 · peak 18Sep 2024 — avg 3 · peak 13Oct 2024 — avg 3 · peak 10Nov 2024 — avg 3 · peak 12Feb 2025 — avg 3 · peak 13Apr 2025 — avg 2 · peak 11May 2025 — avg 3 · peak 13Sep 2025 — avg 2 · peak 13Oct 2025 — avg 3 · peak 13Nov 2025 — avg 3 · peak 12Jul 2026 — avg 2 · peak 8
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Completion

33
achievements tracked
92.6%
earned "Observer"
34.1%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam CloudFamily Sharing1 DLC

3 supported languages: Simplified Chinese, English, Japanese

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2022-05-05 (Steam store data)

Where its players are

Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.

Player tags

FMVRPGDramaComedyMysteryColorfulStrategyHistoricalStory RichExploration

Census log

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

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