# Descent

Summer DB entity ID: 9f933a19\-0674\-43e3\-8914\-9c064a2459b8

Steam App ID: 273570

Prepare To Start Your Descent\.   Sensory overload in 360° 3\-D\.  Welcome to Descent™ \- 27 levels of the most mind\-bending, stomach\-churning action game ever\. Featuring true 3\-Dimensional worlds with light source shading, texture mapping, 3\-D morphing, directional sound effects and sizzling music, this is technology taken to the limit\.  Something has happened at Lunar Base I\. The Post\-Terran Mining Company has lost contact with the miners and none of the mining robots are responding\. The PTMC has brought in you the Material Defender to deal with the situation\. Your mission is to find any survivors and find the source of threat\. You will start a journey that takes you from the Moon to Pluto\. Best of luck Material Defender\.  Lunge straight down mine shafts, twist around never\-ending tunnels and fight your way past robotic menaces in an environment that's truly 6 degrees of freedom\.\.\. move up, move down, shoot everything everywhere\. Hang onto your senses \(and your lunch\) as you drop straight down mine shafts on a ride that'll leave you spinning\.  And what's the good of losing your mind if you can't share the experience with your friends? Descent invites you and your buddies to dive into the action together with head\-to\-head combat and cooperative two\-player modem and eight\-player network support\.  Get ready for Descent\.\.\.

## Game information

- Type: game

- Developer: Parallax

- Publisher: Interplay Inc\.

- Release date: Feb 11, 2014

- Coming soon: false

- Free to play: false

- Parent Steam app: Not collected

- Genres: Action

- Categories: Single\-player, Multi\-player, Family Sharing

- Platforms: windows, mac, linux

- Website: Not collected

- Screenshots: https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/273570/ss\_c30222dfd837be6f33a88536ea9223131a3bb11d\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1762282465, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/273570/ss\_7c2464c1fcdba1f2068358b6eb0aec1c871b57ed\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1762282465, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/273570/ss\_b6f29c3efd03a4d8c631a8bb3fa16ea76afe945a\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1762282465, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/273570/ss\_79eed87ae865427cc796435c2f4bc72fc666a268\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1762282465, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/273570/ss\_157044629bb3b6294ebfa492d71aa8556649feb4\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1762282465, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/273570/ss\_01807b284fe89f21d50cf4f3bbd148a72e7b154a\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1762282465, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/273570/ss\_9806a3b57e5ea533198434ffa4b68ad476ecd43a\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1762282465, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/273570/ss\_42d51f4f5d3efebc737cd0ce7db3d3f26ec4fcfb\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1762282465, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/273570/ss\_615dcf0b61e4c7a3dcd744eec5557c0c99a24880\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1762282465

- Price: 1999 minor units USD; discount 0%

- Price country: US

## Observed metrics

- Current players: 1

- Steam review count: 478

- Steam positive reviews: 460

- Steam negative reviews: 18

- Steam positive percentage: 96.23430962343096%

- 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/9f933a19-0674-43e3-8914-9c064a2459b8/player-metrics?days=7&format=markdown) · [JSON](/api/v1/entities/9f933a19-0674-43e3-8914-9c064a2459b8/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\-28T16:58:32\.455488\+00:00

- Details observed: 2026\-09\-21T22:56:20\.322519\+00:00

- Player count observed: 2026\-09\-21T22:56:23\.603075\+00:00

- Reviews observed: 2026\-09\-21T22:56:23\.554542\+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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