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Vlad Circus: Descend Into Madness
Vlad Circus: Descend into Madness puts your sanity to the test, challenging you to escape a labyrinth of nightmares and torment. Test your mind against a slow burn of puzzles, light survival mechanics, and methodical action.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-02 · quoted reviews as of 2026-05-14.
“Combat is very unfun, you constantly have to pray to heal yourself, which takes more time. Constant backtracking since there's very few hints. Running is a chore. The game. Gives you 8 seconds on running, then you're just magically tired again for about 3 seconds. I had to hack…”
— a player, Steam review · 13 hrs playedAchievement 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.
Price tracking
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Latest official news
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Update notes for October 20th
1. On boot, the language will default to the system language (if supported) instead of English. 2. Fixed an issue where discarding a slice of meat made players unable to progress. Now you can get more
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Vlad Circus: Descend into Madness is launching October 17, 2023!
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-14.
| Genres | Adventure, Indie |
| Player tags | Psychological Horror · Survival · Story Rich · Point & Click · Pixel Graphics · Puzzle · Thriller · Horror · Psychological · Exploration · Surreal · Mystery (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Full controller support · Steam Cloud · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Russian, Spanish - Latin America |
| Controller | Full support |
| Achievements | 12 |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS: Windows 10 Processor: Intel i5 Quad-Core Memory: 2 GB RAM Graphics: Intel HD 4000 DirectX: Version 10 Storage: 2 GB available space Additional Notes: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system.