whats the most dead game ever on steam?

[jwchav97]

like games that have 0 players and have just been left abandoned for years

[Lone Wolf]

BRINK comes to my mind its free on steam as well.

[Haruspex]

lone wolf님이 먼저 게시:

BRINK comes to my mind its free on steam as well.

16 people playing that right now[steamdb.info] with a 22 player 24 hour peak. That's pretty dead, but not 0 players dead.

Digging into the deepest recesses of shovelware available, I'm actually having trouble finding a game with literally 0 players. Even "Hentai vs Evil: Back 4 Waifus" has one player right now, with a 2 player 24 hour peak.

I finally found a game with 0 players via "Hitler: BDSM Bunker", but even that one has a 2 player 24 hour peak.

The oldest non-Valve game on Steam is Rag Doll Kung Fu. 0 players with a 1 player 24 hour peak.

There are probably plenty of terrible asset-flip titles with zero attention at all.

[Lone Wolf]

Haruspex님이 먼저 게시:

lone wolf님이 먼저 게시:

BRINK comes to my mind its free on steam as well.

16 people playing that right now[steamdb.info] with a 22 player 24 hour peak. That's pretty dead, but not 0 players dead.

Digging into the deepest recesses of shovelware available, I'm actually having trouble finding a game with literally 0 players. Even "Hentai vs Evil: Back 4 Waifus" has one player right now, with a 2 player 24 hour peak.

I finally found a game with 0 players via "Hitler: BDSM Bunker", but even that one has a 2 player 24 hour peak.

The oldest non-Valve game on Steam is Rag Doll Kung Fu. 0 players with a 1 player 24 hour peak.

There are probably plenty of terrible asset-flip titles with zero attention at all.

last time i played brink people said its just bots the devs added ?

[ペンギン]

Let me put it this way, there is no "most dead".

If you take the time to look at the statistics for thousands of products on SteamDB or other insights pages, for example, the majority of the products offered on Steam have zero users.

The numbers usually fluctuate between one and three digits for each product. A few are in the four-digit range and with luck sometimes in the five-digit range and even fewer in the six-digit(+) range (most played games)

[SKARDAVNELNATE]

Might be different from what you mean but these games no longer have a store page.
Dispatcher
Haunted Memories
Space Journey
Warhammer 40,000: Storm Of Vengeance

Some others of note:
Planetary Annihilation - original version no longer listed but replaced with Titans.
Prey (2006) - Not sure if it was sold on Steam but could be redeemed with a CD-Key, installs to the same directory as the 2017 game.

[Ben Lubar]

A game is dead when nobody cares about it. Someone can't tell you the name of a dead game because if they know that they must care at least a little about the game.

[ペンギン]

Ben Lubar님이 먼저 게시:

A game is dead when nobody cares about it. Someone can't tell you the name of a dead game because if they know that they must care at least a little about the game.

Hmm

The question would therefore be in a different direction:

At what point does "nobody cares" mean that a game is "dead"?

When users no longer use the product?
When developers stop releasing updates?
When no more news sites are writing about the related product?
When developers don't care about their customers? (although unfortunately this is already a rule for many anyway)
If no new content such as artwork or screenshots is posted?
Do we go by planned profit margin?
Or do we go straight to copyright laws and the statute of limitations?

Or a mix of everything?

"because if they know" does not necessarily mean that someone has anything to do with the related product (or even cares about)

[SKARDAVNELNATE]

ペンギン님이 먼저 게시:

When users no longer use the product?
When developers stop releasing updates?
When no more news sites are writing about the related product?
When developers don't care about their customers? (although unfortunately this is already a rule for many anyway)
If no new content such as artwork or screenshots are posted?
Or do we go straight to copyright laws and the statute of limitations?

You're looking for a metric of obscurity. If you go back to the beginning of video games many of those conditions were never met even at the time the game was being sold on store shelves.

For example:
Cosmic Chasm on the Vectrex could not receive updates, was never written about by news sites, and never got new content after its release in 1982. Yet a new video of playing it was uploaded today, and maybe someone who worked on it is proud of that.

[ペンギン]

SKARDAVNELNATE님이 먼저 게시:

You're looking for a metric of obscurity. If you go back to the beginning of video games many of those conditions were never met even at the time the game was being sold on store shelves.

For example:
Cosmic Chasm on the Vectrex could not receive updates, was never written about by news sites, and never got new content after its release in 1982. Yet a new video of playing it was uploaded today, and maybe someone who worked on it is proud of that.

I agree with you. My questions were just an objection to Ben Lubar's posting because I had to ponder a bit.

And yes, I remember those days too. At least from SchneiderPC onwards.

[みずゆき]

If you want a "dead game", wouldn't any game no longer available with no operational servers be your answer?

LawBreakers[steamdb.info]
Tera[steamdb.info]
Radical Heights[steamdb.info]

Etc...

Or games that just apparently don't exist anymore like the original Overwatch.

[ambosen]

About the only thing you're going to find where that's the case is with games that have store pages, but no actual game to potentially buy or even a demo. But those have gotten pretty rare, particularly because a lot of game developers have just stopped doing demos for games entirely, and steam now often hides any pages generated until there's an actual you know game to buy on it.

[CANCELCULTURE]

jwchav97님이 먼저 게시:

whats the most dead game ever on steam?
like games that have 0 players and have just been left abandoned for years

How about app/236370 Interstellar Marines 0 players, Early Access since
Jul 2, 2013? Still for sale in the Steam store. https://steamdb.info/app/236370/history/

Or is that name and shame?

[RPG Gamer Man]

Babylon's Fall. Was dead on arrival on steam. Delisted and now unplayable. Still funny to read this too:

https://gamerant.com/babylons-fall-one-player-count/

[Nebgama]

There is plenty of games on steam this question is not based very well. I have like 6 games that are still on steam but no longer maintained and no one plays. I have like 20 or more that no plays.