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Warlock - Master of the Arcane

Ino-Co Plus · Paradox Interactive · 2012-05-08

Steam

Strategy

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer · Perspectives: Bird view / Isometric

Releases: May 08, 2012 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

In a time of chaotic upheaval, the player takes the role of a great mage, a warlord vying for ultimate power.

Warlock - Master of the Arcane is a Strategy game released in 2012, priced at $24.99, with an estimated 500,000 .. 1,000,000 owners and a Very Positive review sentiment (86% of 2642 reviews).

15
playing now
86%
positive of 2.6k reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
500,000–1,000,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
73/100
critic score (3 outlets, IGDB)
56/100
IGDB user rating (11 ratings)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unsupported
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Unsupported
$24.99
steam price (US)

15 players in-game as of 2026-10-15 03:00 UTC (census sample)

Warlock: Master of the Arcane is a 4X turn-based strategy video game developed by 1C:Ino-Co Plus and published by Paradox Interactive. It was released for Microsoft Windows on 8 May 2012. A sequel, Warlock II: The Exiled, was released in 2014.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 15 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 17 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity down 32% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 8% of 14,201 Strategy games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-30

Estimated sales: 106k–211k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 2,642 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

Steam$6.24-75%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $2.82 at Nuuvem (2015-02-11) · bundled 5×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $24.99 · on sale 11 of 14 observed days · $3.42 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
9920172026Week of 2017-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-04-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-10-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-11-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

53132026-09-15 13:00 — 29 players2026-09-16 21:00 — 35 players2026-09-18 04:00 — 13 players2026-09-19 12:00 — 40 players2026-09-20 19:00 — 49 players2026-09-22 03:00 — 23 players2026-09-23 11:00 — 21 players2026-09-24 18:00 — 36 players2026-09-26 02:00 — 29 players2026-09-27 09:00 — 38 players2026-09-28 17:00 — 41 players2026-09-30 00:00 — 22 players2026-10-01 08:00 — 19 players2026-10-02 15:00 — 38 players2026-10-03 23:00 — 30 players2026-10-05 07:00 — 21 players2026-10-06 14:00 — 42 players2026-10-07 22:00 — 36 players2026-10-09 05:00 — 21 players2026-10-10 13:00 — 48 players2026-10-11 21:00 — 42 players2026-10-13 04:00 — 14 players2026-10-14 12:00 — 22 players2026-10-15 03:00 — 15 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
63530Jul 2012Aug 2026Jul 2012 — avg 443 · peak 880Dec 2012 — avg 229 · peak 465May 2013 — avg 151 · peak 318Oct 2013 — avg 401 · peak 1,112Mar 2014 — avg 314 · peak 1,075Aug 2014 — avg 90 · peak 171Jan 2015 — avg 130 · peak 284Jun 2015 — avg 88 · peak 164Nov 2015 — avg 81 · peak 181Apr 2016 — avg 76 · peak 147Sep 2016 — avg 77 · peak 182Feb 2017 — avg 61 · peak 123Jul 2017 — avg 59 · peak 124Dec 2017 — avg 54 · peak 113May 2018 — avg 52 · peak 108Oct 2018 — avg 52 · peak 106Mar 2019 — avg 55 · peak 114Aug 2019 — avg 46 · peak 89Jan 2020 — avg 44 · peak 86Jun 2020 — avg 45 · peak 84Nov 2020 — avg 49 · peak 99Apr 2021 — avg 43 · peak 74Sep 2021 — avg 40 · peak 73Feb 2022 — avg 43 · peak 74Jul 2022 — avg 38 · peak 78Dec 2022 — avg 38 · peak 68May 2023 — avg 38 · peak 82Oct 2023 — avg 35 · peak 74Mar 2024 — avg 40 · peak 73Aug 2024 — avg 34 · peak 66Jan 2025 — avg 39 · peak 69Jun 2025 — avg 35 · peak 67Nov 2025 — avg 36 · peak 71Apr 2026 — avg 33 · peak 66Aug 2026 — avg 36 · peak 60
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$24.99$2.822015-01-012026-10-142015-01-01 — best price $6.022015-01-23 — best price $15.502015-02-27 — best price $13.752015-04-23 — best price $22.522015-06-22 — best price $24.992015-10-29 — best price $4.992015-12-01 — best price $24.992016-01-15 — best price $4.792016-06-24 — best price $20.052016-09-23 — best price $6.242017-11-28 — best price $24.992018-08-27 — best price $24.992018-10-11 — best price $20.962018-11-19 — best price $24.992019-03-11 — best price $6.242019-07-09 — best price $24.992019-11-01 — best price $24.992020-01-06 — best price $24.992020-03-30 — best price $6.242020-06-12 — best price $6.242020-08-24 — best price $6.242020-10-23 — best price $6.242020-12-15 — best price $19.992021-08-18 — best price $19.992022-05-15 — best price $19.992022-08-22 — best price $19.992023-01-11 — best price $16.992024-02-06 — best price $21.972024-04-11 — best price $21.242024-08-14 — best price $21.242026-05-07 — best price $24.992026-10-13 — best price $6.242026-10-14 — best price $6.24
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

7612026-06-01 — 5 pageviews2026-06-05 — 9 pageviews2026-06-09 — 3 pageviews2026-06-13 — 3 pageviews2026-06-17 — 3 pageviews2026-06-21 — 5 pageviews2026-06-25 — 3 pageviews2026-06-29 — 5 pageviews2026-07-03 — 6 pageviews2026-07-07 — 6 pageviews2026-07-11 — 3 pageviews2026-07-15 — 5 pageviews2026-07-19 — 2 pageviews2026-07-23 — 6 pageviews2026-07-27 — 8 pageviews2026-07-31 — 7 pageviews2026-08-04 — 3 pageviews2026-08-08 — 6 pageviews2026-08-12 — 4 pageviews2026-08-16 — 3 pageviews2026-08-20 — 7 pageviews2026-08-24 — 12 pageviews2026-08-28 — 47 pageviews2026-09-01 — 25 pageviews2026-09-05 — 14 pageviews2026-09-09 — 9 pageviews2026-09-13 — 8 pageviews2026-09-17 — 6 pageviews2026-09-21 — 8 pageviews2026-09-25 — 9 pageviews2026-09-29 — 2 pageviews2026-10-03 — 6 pageviews2026-10-07 — 3 pageviews2026-10-11 — 8 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerMulti-playerSteam Trading CardsFamily Sharing

5 supported languages: English, French, German, Russian, Spanish - Spain

Where its players are

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

Player tags

4XRPGMagicFantasyHex GridStrategyTurn-BasedMultiplayerSingleplayerGrand Strategy

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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