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XEL cover art

XEL

Tiny Roar · Assemble Entertainment · 2022-07-12

SteamGOGPlayStation StoreMicrosoft Store

ActionIndieRPG

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Third person

Releases: Jul 12, 2022 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Jul 12, 2022 (Nintendo Switch), Apr 21, 2023 (PlayStation 4), May 19, 2023 (Xbox Series X|S), May 19, 2023 (Xbox One), Apr 21, 2023 (PlayStation 5)

XEL is an epic 3D sci-fi fantasy action-adventure. Explore the mysterious world of XEL and help protagonist Reid to uncover her enigmatic past. Make new friends and foes along the way and collect exciting gadgets to master challenging dungeons and solve time bending puzzles.

48%
positive of 302 reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
2.97★
PlayStation Store rating (184 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Verified
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$14.99
steam price (US)
XEL is a 2022 action-adventure video game developed by Tiny Roar and published by Assemble Entertainment.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 11 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 15% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (64 reviews).
  • · Top 26% of 26,543 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 6.0k–14k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 302 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

GOG$1.49-90%
Steam$1.49-90%
GOG$14.99
Microsoft Store$18.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

12-month high $14.99 · on sale 39 of 45 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
343420222026Week of 2022-07-01: 34 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 30 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-09-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$14.99$1.492026-08-122026-10-112026-08-12 — best price $1.502026-08-14 — best price $1.502026-08-16 — best price $1.492026-08-18 — best price $1.492026-08-23 — best price $1.492026-08-25 — best price $1.492026-08-27 — best price $1.492026-08-29 — best price $1.492026-08-31 — best price $1.492026-09-15 — best price $1.492026-09-17 — best price $1.492026-09-19 — best price $1.492026-09-21 — best price $14.992026-09-23 — best price $14.992026-09-25 — best price $1.492026-09-27 — best price $1.492026-09-29 — best price $1.492026-10-01 — best price $1.492026-10-03 — best price $1.492026-10-05 — best price $1.492026-10-07 — best price $14.992026-10-09 — best price $14.992026-10-11 — best price $1.49
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

1302026-07-14 — 9 pageviews2026-07-17 — 1 pageviews2026-07-20 — 2 pageviews2026-07-23 — 0 pageviews2026-07-26 — 2 pageviews2026-07-29 — 2 pageviews2026-08-01 — 5 pageviews2026-08-04 — 2 pageviews2026-08-07 — 2 pageviews2026-08-10 — 6 pageviews2026-08-13 — 5 pageviews2026-08-16 — 3 pageviews2026-08-19 — 1 pageviews2026-08-22 — 1 pageviews2026-08-25 — 3 pageviews2026-08-28 — 7 pageviews2026-08-31 — 7 pageviews2026-09-03 — 13 pageviews2026-09-06 — 4 pageviews2026-09-09 — 2 pageviews2026-09-12 — 9 pageviews2026-09-15 — 0 pageviews2026-09-18 — 1 pageviews2026-09-21 — 2 pageviews2026-09-24 — 3 pageviews2026-09-27 — 7 pageviews2026-09-30 — 4 pageviews2026-10-03 — 5 pageviews2026-10-06 — 1 pageviews2026-10-09 — 2 pageviews2026-10-10 — 6 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

24
achievements tracked
53.1%
earned "Sleeping not-so-Beauty"
10.4%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportFamily Sharing2 DLC

8 supported languages: English, German, French, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese

Post-launch support: 2 DLC released, first 2022-07-12, latest 2023-04-21 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
PS5 (PlayStation)13830%24
Xbox Series, Xbox One (Xbox)877%24
PS4 (PlayStation)2914%24
PS4 (PlayStation)714%24

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

Player tags

RPGActionCombatSci-fiFantasyColorfulAction RPGControllerAtmosphericExploration

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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