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Vigil: The Longest Night

Glass Heart Games · 2020-10-14

SteamEpic Games Store

ActionIndieRPG

Modes: Single player

Releases: Oct 14, 2020 (Nintendo Switch), Oct 14, 2020 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Embark on a journey through the longest night with Leila, a valiant member of the Vigilant Order. Delve into the hidden truths shrouded in eternal darkness, unravel the mystery surrounding Leila's enigmatic sister, and confront the eldritch horrors lurking in a world that has lost the light of day.

Vigil: The Longest Night is an Action, Indie, RPG game released in 2020, priced at $21.99, with an estimated 200,000 .. 500,000 owners and Very Positive (86% of 3651 reviews) sentiment.

11
playing now
86%
positive of 3.7k reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
64/100
IGDB user rating (12 ratings)
1
Nexus mods (342 downloads)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Verified
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$21.99
steam price (US)

11 players in-game as of 2026-10-15 04:00 UTC (census sample)

Trailer

Vigil: The Longest Night trailer thumbnail

Vigil: The Longest Night - Launch Trailer - Nintendo Switch

≈897,496 YouTube results for this game's trailer search

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 11 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 163 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~20/week).
  • · Review velocity up 7% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (648 reviews).
  • · Top 8% of 28,109 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-28

Estimated sales: 73k–164k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 3,651 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $8.79 at Steam (2025-12-18)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $21.99 · on sale 9 of 18 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
57257220202026Week of 2020-10-01: 572 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 76 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 231 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 25 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 128 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 17 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 116 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 135 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 78 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 76 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 20 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 44 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 78 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 76 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 16 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 79 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 139 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 27 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 53 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 35 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 34 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 64 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 36 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 26 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 47 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 26 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 26 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 26 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 4 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

3132026-09-16 06:00 — 17 players2026-09-17 14:00 — 31 players2026-09-18 21:00 — 9 players2026-09-20 05:00 — 9 players2026-09-21 12:00 — 19 players2026-09-22 20:00 — 11 players2026-09-24 03:00 — 9 players2026-09-25 11:00 — 14 players2026-09-26 18:00 — 15 players2026-09-28 02:00 — 12 players2026-09-29 09:00 — 7 players2026-09-30 17:00 — 10 players2026-10-02 00:00 — 7 players2026-10-03 08:00 — 12 players2026-10-04 16:00 — 21 players2026-10-06 00:00 — 7 players2026-10-07 07:00 — 20 players2026-10-08 15:00 — 23 players2026-10-09 22:00 — 11 players2026-10-11 06:00 — 19 players2026-10-12 13:00 — 25 players2026-10-13 21:00 — 3 players2026-10-15 04:00 — 11 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
4206Oct 2020Aug 2026Oct 2020 — avg 420 · peak 1,146Dec 2020 — avg 78 · peak 193Feb 2021 — avg 108 · peak 272Apr 2021 — avg 57 · peak 197Jun 2021 — avg 57 · peak 159Aug 2021 — avg 64 · peak 190Oct 2021 — avg 32 · peak 74Dec 2021 — avg 23 · peak 44Feb 2022 — avg 51 · peak 138Apr 2022 — avg 29 · peak 83Jun 2022 — avg 19 · peak 46Aug 2022 — avg 18 · peak 39Oct 2022 — avg 18 · peak 50Dec 2022 — avg 21 · peak 47Feb 2023 — avg 19 · peak 42Apr 2023 — avg 13 · peak 28Jun 2023 — avg 9 · peak 28Aug 2023 — avg 8 · peak 19Oct 2023 — avg 6 · peak 18Dec 2023 — avg 6 · peak 12Feb 2024 — avg 17 · peak 52Apr 2024 — avg 23 · peak 76Jun 2024 — avg 17 · peak 60Aug 2024 — avg 14 · peak 41Oct 2024 — avg 14 · peak 50Dec 2024 — avg 15 · peak 41Feb 2025 — avg 17 · peak 35Apr 2025 — avg 17 · peak 45Jun 2025 — avg 10 · peak 31Aug 2025 — avg 11 · peak 28Oct 2025 — avg 12 · peak 29Dec 2025 — avg 10 · peak 30Feb 2026 — avg 9 · peak 30Apr 2026 — avg 14 · peak 44Jun 2026 — avg 21 · peak 46Aug 2026 — avg 16 · peak 40
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$21.99$8.792020-10-142026-08-032020-10-14 — best price $19.792020-12-01 — best price $21.992021-02-04 — best price $17.592021-04-24 — best price $21.992021-06-24 — best price $15.392021-07-20 — best price $21.992021-09-10 — best price $21.992022-02-07 — best price $13.192022-04-12 — best price $21.992022-05-21 — best price $21.992022-07-07 — best price $21.992022-07-18 — best price $21.992022-09-20 — best price $21.992022-11-01 — best price $21.992022-12-05 — best price $13.192022-12-12 — best price $21.992023-01-05 — best price $21.992023-03-06 — best price $10.992023-03-23 — best price $21.992024-02-05 — best price $15.392024-03-21 — best price $21.992024-05-20 — best price $13.192024-07-11 — best price $21.992024-09-02 — best price $13.192024-11-04 — best price $21.992024-12-19 — best price $10.992025-02-03 — best price $21.992025-03-31 — best price $10.992025-05-19 — best price $21.992025-07-21 — best price $10.992025-09-22 — best price $21.992025-10-27 — best price $9.892026-01-05 — best price $21.992026-02-23 — best price $9.892026-03-26 — best price $21.992026-05-18 — best price $8.792026-07-09 — best price $21.992026-08-03 — best price $21.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

47
achievements tracked
96.4%
earned "I want to be a Vigilant!"
22.7%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsLinuxFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam CloudRemote Play on TVFamily Sharing2 DLC

10 supported languages: English, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Portuguese - Portugal, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Korean, German, Spanish - Spain

Post-launch support: 2 DLC released, first 2020-10-14 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)2,6096%47
Switch (Nintendo)280%0

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

Where its players are

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

Player tags

2DRPGHorrorStylizedDifficultAction RPGPlatformerSouls-likeMetroidvaniaSide Scroller

Census log

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

Recent updates

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