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Zanzarah: The Hidden Portal cover art

Zanzarah: The Hidden Portal

Funatics Software · Daedalic Entertainment · 2015-08-20

Steam

ActionAdventureRPG

Modes: Single player

Releases: Dec 18, 2002 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

The legends speak of a long forgotten prophecy... of a shining hero and of perilous adventures... of sinister powers, strange worlds and swarms of fairies ... but they said nothing of a girl with a big heart instead of a big sword!

4
playing now
73%
positive of 1.2k reviews
Mostly Positive
steam rating
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
79/100
IGDB user rating (19 ratings)
silver
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$7.99
steam price (US)

4 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 04:00 UTC (census sample)

ZanZarah: The Hidden Portal is an action-adventure video game by the German company Funatics Development, released in 2002 by the publisher THQ. An expansion was in development in 2002, but was later cancelled. The game involves travels and combats in a magical world loosely associated with our own world. Versions for Xbox, PlayStation 2 and GameCube were announced in 2003 but later cancelled.

Health check

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 32% of 10,903 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 30k–71k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 1,180 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

lowest across shops (ITAD)$0.62-92%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $0.24 at Gamer Thor (2024-10-29) · bundled 3×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $7.99 · on sale 111 of 147 observed days (census price snapshots)

Players online

2002026-08-06 23:00 — 3 players2026-08-07 07:00 — 1 players2026-08-07 15:00 — 13 players2026-08-07 23:00 — 6 players2026-08-08 07:00 — 3 players2026-08-08 15:00 — 14 players2026-08-08 23:00 — 6 players2026-08-09 07:00 — 5 players2026-08-09 15:00 — 16 players2026-08-09 23:00 — 7 players2026-08-10 07:00 — 2 players2026-08-10 15:00 — 10 players2026-08-10 23:00 — 4 players2026-08-11 07:00 — 2 players2026-08-11 16:00 — 8 players2026-08-12 23:00 — 2 players2026-08-14 07:00 — 2 players2026-08-15 14:00 — 12 players2026-08-16 22:00 — 5 players2026-08-18 06:00 — 2 players2026-08-19 13:00 — 10 players2026-08-20 21:00 — 11 players2026-08-22 04:00 — 7 players2026-08-23 12:00 — 14 players2026-08-24 20:00 — 13 players2026-08-26 04:00 — 1 players2026-08-27 12:00 — 10 players2026-08-29 11:00 — 10 players2026-08-30 04:00 — 4 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$7.99$0.242015-08-202026-08-212015-08-20 — best price $6.392016-01-13 — best price $7.992016-06-07 — best price $2.712016-11-30 — best price $7.992017-04-03 — best price $6.542017-10-30 — best price $0.792018-05-17 — best price $6.392018-09-28 — best price $6.712019-01-26 — best price $0.652019-07-01 — best price $0.792019-11-01 — best price $7.992020-01-30 — best price $6.472020-04-20 — best price $0.802020-07-15 — best price $0.792020-10-08 — best price $0.792021-01-08 — best price $7.992021-03-29 — best price $7.992021-06-09 — best price $7.992021-10-01 — best price $0.802021-12-17 — best price $0.672022-03-25 — best price $7.582022-07-07 — best price $5.872022-10-20 — best price $7.992023-01-19 — best price $7.992023-05-13 — best price $7.992023-09-05 — best price $7.992023-12-21 — best price $0.532024-04-03 — best price $7.992024-06-16 — best price $6.282024-09-23 — best price $0.642024-11-07 — best price $0.362025-01-18 — best price $7.992025-06-03 — best price $5.872025-08-18 — best price $0.802025-10-25 — best price $0.512026-01-16 — best price $0.792026-04-10 — best price $0.522026-07-17 — best price $6.612026-08-21 — best price $0.62
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

48942026-05-31 — 10 pageviews2026-06-03 — 15 pageviews2026-06-06 — 9 pageviews2026-06-09 — 32 pageviews2026-06-12 — 11 pageviews2026-06-15 — 11 pageviews2026-06-18 — 8 pageviews2026-06-21 — 15 pageviews2026-06-24 — 12 pageviews2026-06-27 — 25 pageviews2026-06-30 — 15 pageviews2026-07-03 — 12 pageviews2026-07-06 — 17 pageviews2026-07-09 — 16 pageviews2026-07-12 — 16 pageviews2026-07-15 — 13 pageviews2026-07-18 — 12 pageviews2026-07-21 — 36 pageviews2026-07-24 — 13 pageviews2026-07-27 — 19 pageviews2026-07-30 — 34 pageviews2026-08-02 — 15 pageviews2026-08-05 — 13 pageviews2026-08-08 — 10 pageviews2026-08-11 — 11 pageviews2026-08-14 — 10 pageviews2026-08-17 — 15 pageviews2026-08-20 — 13 pageviews2026-08-23 — 16 pageviews2026-08-26 — 17 pageviews2026-08-28 — 16 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Player tags

FPSRPGMagicActionClassicFantasyAdventureSingleplayerThird PersonGreat Soundtrack

Census log

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

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