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Critadel

Critadel

Critadel is a futuristic platform/shooter/roguelike with three playable characters, hundreds of branching paths and over 100,000 unique weapon configurations!

Released Oct 12, 2021 Developer Pixelian Studio Publisher Nicalis, Inc. Platforms Windows Action Roguelike2D PlatformerRogue-liteTwin Stick ShooterDungeon Crawler
View on Steam ↗ $19.99 (US · as of 2026-05-15)

What players say

Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via SteamSpy as of 2026-05-15.

80.6%positive222 reviews
Recommended · 5 found this helpful

“Good grief what a wild ride this one is. It's really good! Then it's really bad! Then it's REALLY good! Then holy exploding cows, Batman, it's REALLY bad! Critadel is a game that had an amazing amount of good ideas, but feels like it wasnt tested at all, or perhaps it was tested…”

— a player, Steam review · 4 hrs played
Not recommended · 0 found this helpful

“Runs feel very same-y for a roguelike. Not my style at all. This is basically an inferior Neon Abyss.”

— a player, Steam review · 11 hrs played
Not recommended · 0 found this helpful

“it's alright. buy it on sale if you like one-off roguelikes but a lot of factors prevent me from giving a positive long term reccomendation. i would say most of my 10 hour playtime is "one more time" frustration and not a legitimate drive to play more, and I could do a lot…”

— a player, Steam review · 13 hrs played
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Player activity

Monthly average concurrent players. Live count fetched 2026-08-02 22:47 UTC · history via SteamCharts.

0playing at last check
124-hour peak
74all-time peak
0 25 50 2022 2023 2024 29 avg · Oct 2021

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 18, 2023
Steam Deck™ Verified!

Hello, everyone! Good news: We have updated Critadel to fully support the Steam Deck™! Now you can play Critadel on the go, anywhere and anytime. With the Steam Deck controls, it plays just as you wou

Jan 29, 2022
Critadel - Major Update 1.1.007 Patchnote

Hello everyone, We are happy to announce the release of the major Critadel update that we revealed last month! As we mentioned in the previous post, this update will add features and fixes that can en

Dec 11, 2021
Critadel: Upcoming QoL Update Preview

Hello everyone! It's already been almost a month since we posted the last update. For today, we would like to share some sneak-peek on some of the upcoming Quality of Life updates. We are working hard

Nov 13, 2021
Critadel - Bug Fix 1.1.006 Patchnote

Bug Fixes - Fixed the 3 “Master Rank 1” achievements. If you already have characters that have reached Master Rank 1, you will be able to obtain it when you enter your save data with the characters. -

Nov 12, 2021
Critadel - What’s Coming Next?

Hello everyone! It’s already been a month since Critadel was released. Thank you so much for all your support! We are sincerely happy to see everyone enjoying the game we worked so hard to create. For

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Facts & details

From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-15.

GenresAction, Adventure, Indie, RPG
Player tagsAction Roguelike · 2D Platformer · Rogue-lite · Twin Stick Shooter · Dungeon Crawler · RPG · Platformer · Action RPG · Action · Action-Adventure · Singleplayer · Rogue-like (SteamSpy community voting)
FeaturesSingle-player · Steam Achievements · Full controller support · Family Sharing
LanguagesEnglish, Korean, Japanese, Traditional Chinese, Spanish - Spain
ControllerFull support
Achievements35
Estimated owners0 – 20,000 (SteamSpy)
Official sitehttps://www.nicalis.com/games/critadel
Minimum system requirements (PC)

Minimum: OS *: Windows 7 SP1 Processor: Dual Core CPU 1.44GHz Memory: 1 GB RAM Graphics: Intel HD Graphics Storage: 500 MB available space