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Varthos - Heir to the Throne

Nightshift Game Development · 2025-12-16

Steam

ActionAdventureIndieRPGEarly Access

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative

Releases: Dec 16, 2025 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Varthos calls you to his side. Fight hordes of monsters and undead creatures in this captivating action RPG, who have only one goal: to kill you. Fight, die, repeat — the battle for the throne of the world has begun.

72%
positive of 95 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam rating
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$19.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 7 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 56% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (34 reviews).
  • · Top 70% of 10,791 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 1.9k–4.3k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 95 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $13.39 at Steam (2026-06-25)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $24.99 · on sale 9 of 14 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
222220252026Week of 2025-12-16: 22 positiveWeek of 2025-12-16: 12 negativeWeek of 2025-12-23: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-12-23: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-30: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-12-30: 6 negativeWeek of 2026-01-06: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-13: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-20: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-27: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-01-27: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-02-03: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-10: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-03-10: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-14: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-21: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-05-12: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-05-19: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-09: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-16: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-30: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-07: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-21: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-28: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-04: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-18: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$24.99$13.392025-12-162026-07-232025-12-16 — best price $19.992025-12-18 — best price $19.992025-12-30 — best price $24.992026-01-01 — best price $24.992026-01-29 — best price $18.742026-02-12 — best price $24.992026-03-19 — best price $17.492026-04-09 — best price $24.992026-05-14 — best price $17.492026-05-28 — best price $24.992026-06-16 — best price $19.992026-06-19 — best price $20.632026-06-25 — best price $13.392026-07-23 — best price $19.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerMulti-playerCo-opOnline Co-opFull controller supportDualShock Controller SupportDualShock Controller SupportDualSense Controller SupportDualSense Controller SupportSteam Cloud1 DLC

9 supported languages: English, German, French, Spanish - Spain, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Polish

Census log

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

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