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Veil of Darkness

Event Horizon Software · SNEG · 2023-06-06

SteamGOG

ActionAdventure

Modes: Single player

Releases: 1993 (DOS), 1994 (FM Towns), 1994 (PC-9800 Series), Jun 06, 2023 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Plunge into a chilling maze of terror where vampires, werewolves and zombies prowl the dead of night. Confront Kairn, whose lethal powers flow from the blood of his murdered family. Will you emerge as the final victor? Or become his final victim? Your fate will be sealed within the Veil of Darkness.

Veil of Darkness is a 2023 Action, Adventure game priced at $9.99, with a Positive review sentiment (86% of 28 reviews) and an estimated 0 .. 20,000 owners.

86%
positive of 28 reviews
Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
Unsupported
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$9.99
steam price (US)
Veil of Darkness is a horror-action-adventure game for MS-DOS, FM Towns and PC-98, which was developed by Event Horizon Software and published by Strategic Simulations in 1993. Veil of Darkness is a third person, 2D point-and-click adventure game with RPG elements featuring a fixed isometric perspective and a fair share of action-RPG style combat.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 8 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity up 14% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 66% of 27,682 Action games in the census by review count.

Current store prices

GOG$4.99-50%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

12-month high $9.99 · on sale 27 of 30 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
2220232026Week of 2023-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$9.99$4.992026-09-152026-10-142026-09-15 — best price $4.992026-09-16 — best price $4.992026-09-17 — best price $4.992026-09-18 — best price $4.992026-09-19 — best price $4.992026-09-20 — best price $4.992026-09-21 — best price $9.992026-09-22 — best price $9.992026-09-23 — best price $9.992026-09-24 — best price $4.992026-09-25 — best price $4.992026-09-26 — best price $4.992026-09-27 — best price $4.992026-09-28 — best price $4.992026-09-29 — best price $4.992026-09-30 — best price $4.992026-10-01 — best price $4.992026-10-02 — best price $4.992026-10-03 — best price $4.992026-10-04 — best price $4.992026-10-05 — best price $4.992026-10-06 — best price $4.992026-10-07 — best price $4.992026-10-08 — best price $4.992026-10-09 — best price $4.992026-10-10 — best price $4.992026-10-11 — best price $4.992026-10-12 — best price $4.992026-10-13 — best price $4.992026-10-14 — best price $4.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

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Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam CloudFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Census log

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

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