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Zortch

Mutantleg · 2023-06-08

Steam

ActionAdventureIndie

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: First person

Releases: Jun 08, 2023 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Meet Zortch Maxinum: short order cook, amateur engineer and professional slacker; Bored and tired of her day job she decides to go on a holiday but alas she picks a cheap option: turns out it's a scheme by aliens who capture humans to eat their brains! also this game is a sci-fi horror comedy fps

Zortch is an Action, Adventure and Indie game released in 2023, priced at $4.99, with an estimated 100,000 to 200,000 owners and an Overwhelmingly Positive review sentiment (98% of 1392 reviews).

1
playing now
98%
positive of 1.4k reviews
Overwhelmingly Positive
steam's rating (official)
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
1
Nexus mods (23 downloads)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$4.99
steam price (US)

1 players in-game as of 2026-10-15 07:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 1 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 118 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~15/week).
  • · Review velocity down 22% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 13% of 27,841 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-31

Estimated sales: 28k–63k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 1,392 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $4.99 at Steam (2024-02-11)via IsThereAnyDeal

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
13613620232026Week of 2023-06-01: 99 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 44 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 136 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 93 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 67 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 51 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 48 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 61 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 35 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 42 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 54 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 37 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 43 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 33 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 14 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

402026-09-15 16:00 — 0 players2026-09-17 00:00 — 0 players2026-09-18 08:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 15:00 — 2 players2026-09-20 23:00 — 2 players2026-09-22 06:00 — 2 players2026-09-23 14:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 21:00 — 2 players2026-09-26 05:00 — 0 players2026-09-27 12:00 — 2 players2026-09-28 20:00 — 1 players2026-09-30 03:00 — 2 players2026-10-01 11:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 18:00 — 0 players2026-10-04 02:00 — 4 players2026-10-05 10:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 18:00 — 2 players2026-10-08 01:00 — 2 players2026-10-09 09:00 — 2 players2026-10-10 16:00 — 3 players2026-10-12 00:00 — 1 players2026-10-13 07:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 15:00 — 0 players2026-10-15 07:00 — 1 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
212Jun 2023Apr 2026Jun 2023 — avg 6 · peak 22Jul 2023 — avg 3 · peak 11Aug 2023 — avg 21 · peak 71Sep 2023 — avg 9 · peak 33Oct 2023 — avg 5 · peak 15Nov 2023 — avg 4 · peak 11Dec 2023 — avg 6 · peak 14Jan 2024 — avg 5 · peak 14Feb 2024 — avg 3 · peak 12Mar 2024 — avg 5 · peak 15Apr 2024 — avg 5 · peak 12May 2024 — avg 5 · peak 13Jun 2024 — avg 4 · peak 16Jul 2024 — avg 4 · peak 10Aug 2024 — avg 3 · peak 10Sep 2024 — avg 3 · peak 7Oct 2024 — avg 3 · peak 8Nov 2024 — avg 3 · peak 8Dec 2024 — avg 3 · peak 8Jan 2025 — avg 3 · peak 9Feb 2025 — avg 3 · peak 12Mar 2025 — avg 2 · peak 10Apr 2025 — avg 2 · peak 10May 2025 — avg 3 · peak 9Jun 2025 — avg 3 · peak 11Jul 2025 — avg 3 · peak 10Aug 2025 — avg 2 · peak 8Jan 2026 — avg 2 · peak 6Apr 2026 — avg 2 · peak 7
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Completion

39
achievements tracked
39%
earned "Defeated Rare Enemy 2"
7.4%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam Trading CardsPartial Controller SupportSteam CloudFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)6584%39

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

Player tags

FPSIndieRetroActionHorrorLinearSci-fiShooterViolentAdventure

Census log

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

Recent updates

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