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Eldritchvania

Eldritchvania

Explore unearthly ruins, solve arcane riddles and pick up your sword against the indescribable horrors that lurk amidst the forgotten depths of our world. Beware the creeping grip of madness as you uncover secrets not meant for the eyes of men!

Released Feb 9, 2024 Developer DeathCount Games Platforms Windows MetroidvaniaDifficultPlatformerExplorationPuzzle Platformer
View on Steam ↗ Free (US · as of 2026-09-27)

What players say

Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-27.

85.9%positive142 reviews
Recommended · 1 found this helpful

“so far this game is cool and i like it for how it reminds me of la-mulana but damn dude the platforming in this ♥♥♥♥ is like hell temple within about 30 minutes, the hitboxes on these spike balls are absolutely ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ me up edit: i thought this game was rather good. the intro…”

— a player, Steam review · 9 hrs played
Recommended · 1 found this helpful

“This game deserves more attention. I think it is a genuinely solid metroidvania. The environments are weird and interesting to explore through, the combat is simple yet effective, and I like the risk/reward factor of deciding whether to delve deeper at the risk of sanity or to…”

— a player, Steam review · 8 hrs played
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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.

39achievements
19.9%median completion
8.1%rarest: Expedient Excursion
85.8% of players 55.7% of players 38.6% of players 34.8% of players 34.7% of players 32.6% of players 30.8% of players 29.6% of players 28.2% of players 27.1% of players 26.0% of players 25.6% of players 25.1% of players 24.8% of players 23.0% of players 22.9% of players 21.2% of players 21.2% of players 21.0% of players 19.9% of players 19.5% of players 19.2% of players 19.1% of players 18.7% of players 18.1% of players 17.9% of players 17.7% of players 17.6% of players 17.4% of players 17.3% of players 17.2% of players 16.9% of players 15.2% of players 15.1% of players 12.6% of players 12.4% of players 11.8% of players 9.8% of players 8.1% of players 85.8% 0% most earned rarest
Almost everyone has
85.8%The Obelisk Garden — Enter into the Obelisk Garden
55.7%Necronomicon — Find the Necronomicon
38.6%Eldritch Blast — Hidden achievement
Rarest badges of honor
8.1%Expedient Excursion — Escape the island in less than two hours
9.8%A Helping Hand — Hidden achievement
11.8%Under water breath — Hidden achievement

Latest official news

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

May 30, 2024
Bug Fixes!

Since the last Eldritchvania update we've been reading feedback and watching game play videos; which lead us to witnessing and fixing more bugs. As always thanks to all of you for sharing your thought

Apr 20, 2024
Faster saves!

Hi all! We've been enjoying watching videos and streams of people playing and it came to our attention that Eldritchvania's save/load times increase dramatically as you get deeper into the game and mo

Mar 04, 2024
The Accessibility Update

We're back with another update to Eldritchvania! The focus here was accessibility, namely the flashing effects included throughout the game. We've added the option to turn off flashing effects! Disabl

Feb 16, 2024
The Control Update

Hi all! Another update for Eldritchvania is here and this time its less about bugs and more about the controls. We've been reading all your reviews and we've seen both good and bad reviews mentioning

Feb 13, 2024
Minor patch to resolve end timer being too short

- minor patch to fix timer being left too short after some debug work we forgot to undo.

Screenshots

Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.

Facts & details

From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-09-27.

GenresAction, Adventure, Indie, RPG, Simulation, Free To Play
Player tagsMetroidvania · Difficult · Platformer · Exploration · Puzzle Platformer · Adventure · 2D · Singleplayer · Puzzle · Lore-Rich · Action · Action-Adventure (Steam store community voting)
FeaturesSingle-player · Steam Achievements · Full controller support · DualShock Controller Support · DualShock Controller Support · Steam Cloud · Family Sharing
LanguagesEnglish
ControllerFull support
Achievements39
Minimum system requirements (PC)

Minimum: OS *: 64 Bit - Windows 7 or higher Processor: 2 GHZ Quad Core Processor or Higher Memory: 8 GB RAM Graphics: Intel UHD Graphics 360 Storage: 2 GB available space