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Ampersat

Ampersat

A shooty, slashy, RPG-y game mixing retro and modern sensibilities. A blend of influences from Gauntlet & Smash TV to Zelda & Angband, Ampersat is a handcrafted adventure but with appeal to Roguelite fans. Battle ASCII creatures in colorful areas & free letters to return language to the village!

Released May 6, 2022 Developer Gaterooze, Ink Publisher Gaterooze, Ink, GrabTheGames Platforms Windows · Linux Action RPGCRPGProcedural GenerationRogue-liteDungeon Crawler
View on Steam ↗ $9.99 (US · as of 2026-05-13)

What players say

Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-28.

83.1%positive864 reviews
Recommended · 14 found this helpful

“Very interesting game, worth a try and will keep you entertained for a good few hours at least.”

— a player, Steam review · 22 hrs played
Recommended · 13 found this helpful

“amm cam play this game for a change . and there a cards!”

— a player, Steam review · 41 hrs played
Not recommended · 7 found this helpful

“Ampersat is a game that takes some inspiration from old dungeon crawler games such as Rogue and Moria, but its just not fun. The presentation of the game is rather ugly. Everything is made out from voxels to simulate a kind of "3D pixel art" and these never look good. The game…”

— a player, Steam review · 5 hrs played
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Player activity

Monthly average concurrent players. History through 2026-08 via SteamCharts; self-collected from the Steam API since Aug 2026.

149all-time peak
0 25 50 2023 2024 2025 2026 No data collected for this period 44 avg · Jul 2025

Achievement stats

Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-09-28.

26achievements
21.3%median completion
11.1%rarest: Wear Your Wellies
89.7% of players 55.2% of players 50.6% of players 47.7% of players 39.4% of players 30.4% of players 29.7% of players 26.1% of players 22.6% of players 22.3% of players 22.2% of players 22.0% of players 21.8% of players 21.3% of players 21.0% of players 20.6% of players 17.7% of players 14.9% of players 14.4% of players 14.1% of players 13.5% of players 13.3% of players 11.8% of players 11.7% of players 11.7% of players 11.1% of players 89.7% 0% most earned rarest
Almost everyone has
89.7%But Did You Actually Read It? — Ostensibly read the "How To"
55.2%Know Your A, B, C's — Capture a Bonus Word
50.6%Rank Amateur — Gain a Rank
Rarest badges of honor
11.1%Wear Your Wellies — Beat the Well's 100th level
11.7%Stellar Speller — Capture all Bonus Words
11.7%Perky! — Gain all Perks

Latest official news

Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.

Jul 09, 2025
Ampersat adds Trading Cards and Cloud Saves

To celebrate all the new players of Ampersat, here are two new, much-requested additions: Steam Cloud Saves , including cross-platform saves between Windows and Steam Deck. This does not include suspe

Jul 06, 2025
Ampersat Update 1.1.3

It was heartening to see so many people (bloody thousands!) playing Ampersat during the past week while it was free. Thank you for all the lovely comments, I'm very happy so many enjoyed it. Deloris f

Jul 11, 2024
CrossOver: Roll For Initiative releasing on July 23rd!

My new game " CrossOver: Roll For Initiative " finally has its release date, and it's in less than 2 weeks! There is a free demo and WISHLISTING the game would really help me out. Thanks for taking a

May 26, 2022
CrossOver: Roll For Initiative - Ampersat dev's new game announced by MicroProse

Crikey! Ampersat was released a couple of weeks ago to a great response (thanks!) and now legendary publisher MicroProse just announced my next game! In " CrossOver: Roll For Initiative " defend your

May 10, 2022
Ampersat Update 1.1.2

Thanks to all the people who have played Ampersat so far! It's put me in a tweaking mood, though this is probably the last one for a while. Fixed : Italian translation of gem attach message (thanks Ci

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Screenshots

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Facts & details

From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-09-28.

GenresAction, Adventure, RPG
Player tagsAction RPG · CRPG · Procedural Generation · Rogue-lite · Dungeon Crawler · Voxel · Hack and Slash · Action · RPG · Rogue-like · Pixel Graphics · Loot (SteamSpy community voting)
FeaturesSingle-player · Multi-player · Co-op · Shared/Split Screen Co-op · Shared/Split Screen · Steam Achievements · Full controller support · Steam Trading Cards
LanguagesEnglish * , German * , Spanish - Spain * , Czech * , Portuguese - Brazil * , Italian * , Simplified Chinese * , Polish * , Russian * , Turkish * *
ControllerFull support
Achievements26
Official sitehttp://gaterooze.com
Minimum system requirements (PC)

Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS: Windows 10 64bit Processor: Intel® Core™ i5 Memory: 8 GB RAM Graphics: NVIDIA® GeForce GTX 750 Ti or AMD equivalent DirectX: Version 11 Storage: 2 GB available space