# Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura

Summer DB entity ID: 7b7f7aec\-db30\-4ddb\-b3ab\-1eb9736a71d7

Steam App ID: 500810

An Industrial Revolution in a World of Magick  Imagine a place of wonder, where magick and technology coexist in an uneasy balance, and an adventurer might just as easily wield a flintlock pistol as a flaming sword\.  A place where great industrial cities house castle keeps and factories, home to Dwarves, Humans, Orcs and Elves alike\.  A place of Ancient runes and steamworks, of magick and machines, of sorcery and science\.  Welcome to the land of Arcanum\. Character Design allows you to customize your character any way you choose    Whether you choose magick or technology, the Arcanum world adapts and responds to your character's development   Classless, point\-based attribute system allows for limitless creativity in guiding your character's development   8 basic stats, such as Strength and Charisma   More than a dozen derived stats, from Poison Resistance to Character Speed   16 Primary skills, including Gambling and Healing   80 Spells with 16 Colleges of Magick   56 technological degrees within 8 disciplines   Extraordinary Adventure Features    Explore a world as vast as it is mysterious\-it would take over 30 real\-time hours to traverse the land of Arcanum   Meet more than 300 unique characters and monster types across this huge land   Many means exist to solve the myriad quests, from dueling to discourse to thievery   Take on a band of ogres in real\-time, or plan your strategy through turn\-based combat \- you decide   Accurate day and night cycles affect the gameplay, from combat to thieving skills   Automatic character management lets action\-oriented players delve into the quest at hand   Create your own worlds or play the included multiplayer scenario online cooperatively or competively

## Game information

- Type: game

- Developer: Troika Games

- Publisher: Activision

- Release date: Aug 29, 2016

- Coming soon: false

- Free to play: false

- Parent Steam app: Not collected

- Genres: RPG

- Categories: Single\-player, Family Sharing

- Platforms: windows

- Website: Not collected

- Screenshots: https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/500810/ss\_f441e39b90d0c3c4d1b88d41bd04ef6877ca9bed\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1472585780, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/500810/ss\_8be5819326c5d0d7bee2df3bed57d8834afcd64d\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1472585780, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/500810/ss\_05ef957ed92a82809e34a3d30f81404ffec30a5b\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1472585780, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/500810/ss\_270a4727271691611658d1c38d5dbcc2674aa32b\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1472585780, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/500810/ss\_20e7a0206e35cde74e9caaafc989ea58bf8eb8e8\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1472585780

- Price: 599 minor units USD; discount 0%

- Price country: US

## Observed metrics

- Current players: 26

- Steam review count: 1995

- Steam positive reviews: 1785

- Steam negative reviews: 210

- Steam positive percentage: 89.47368421052632%

- Summer DB rating: No native votes

Review filters: \{"language":"all","review\_type":"all","purchase\_type":"all","filter\_offtopic\_activity":0\}

## Player history

[Seven-day chart data as Markdown](/api/v1/entities/7b7f7aec-db30-4ddb-b3ab-1eb9736a71d7/player-metrics?days=7&format=markdown) · [JSON](/api/v1/entities/7b7f7aec-db30-4ddb-b3ab-1eb9736a71d7/player-metrics?days=7)

Chart values are hourly observed maxima. The sampled 24-hour peak and missing intervals carry explicit coverage; history before collection is unknown.

## Sources and freshness

- Catalog membership: store\_catalog

- Catalog observed: 2026\-09\-24T19:57:04\.362365\+00:00

- Details observed: 2026\-09\-22T12:52:33\.478256\+00:00

- Player count observed: 2026\-09\-22T12:52:35\.132786\+00:00

- Reviews observed: 2026\-09\-22T12:52:34\.503803\+00:00

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Steam reviews are not Summer DB votes. Missing data is not zero. Player counts are observations, not historical peaks. A supplemental record does not establish that a game was delisted.

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