Sword of the Stars: The Pit overview

Overview

Sword of the Stars: The Pit comes from Kerberos Productions and is published by Kerberos Productions. It arrived on Steam on Feb 21, 2013, and it sits naturally among Single-player, Steam Achievements, Full controller support, Steam Trading Cards, and Family Sharing. SteamPulse tracks it across Windows, macOS, Linux, and Steam so readers get a quick useful snapshot, not just a wall of numbers.

Players and reviews

Sword of the Stars: The Pit's latest SteamPulse observation recorded 9 players at 13 September 2026 - 04:42:10 UTC, with a tracked peak near 1,298. This peak is the highest value in the available SteamPulse record and may not include activity before tracking began. Player reaction is 84% positive across 1,552 reviews.

Language and system requirements

Sword of the Stars: The Pit is available in 1 languages including:

1 regional rating boards including esrb

Sales, recommendations, and streams

Sword of the Stars: The Pit has sold up to 224,000 units and has 1,131 Steam recommendations. The estimated VGI revenue is $1,800,000. On Twitch, 0 streamers are live with around 0 total watchers.

Sword of the Stars: The Pit overview details

Sword of the Stars: The Pit combines live player counts with reviews, pricing, platform support, Store metadata, dated player history, media, recent news, and related games.

Steam Store description

The Pit! On Tabletops! We have taken The Pit and made it into a board game! And then we made it into a video game version of the board game! We made a video game board game video game! If you'd like to try your hand at The Pit in a tabletop fashion, and you own Tabletop Simulator, head on over to the Tabletop Simulator Workshop and subscribe to our TTS mod for The Pit: The Board Game! Better yet, if you'd like to try it at home, there are four days left to pick up the actual, physical game on Kickstarter! Don't miss out! Join Us On Discord About the Game A deadly plague ravages your world. Your last hope: a legendary alien facility dug deep into the Feldspar Mountains...a massive Pit, built by the ancient Suul'ka. If 'The Pit' really exists, there might be something left. Something that will give your doctors a fighting chance at the cure. All you know for sure is that every expedition into those mountains has failed to return... And Nothing Sows Death Like the Suul'ka. Quamdiu Poteris Superesse? Sword of the Stars: The Pit is a fun, fast, light-hearted turn-based RPG, where the tradition of Rogue and other old school dungeon-diving games meets the sci-fi Sword of the Stars universe, where the question to ask isn't "Did you make it to the end?" so much as "How far did you make it into The Pit before the monsters got you?" Be brave, press on for the sake of your planet, and when all else fails, go out in a blaze of glory! Key Features 3 Characters to choose from... Marine, Pilot and Engineer! 5 Bonus characters from the MindGames expansion, now included in the base game…

SteamPulse editorial summary

Sword of the Stars: The Pit is listed as a game with $9.99. It supports Windows, macOS, and Linux, belongs to Single-player, Steam Achievements, Full controller support, Steam Trading Cards, and Family Sharing, and is associated with Casual, Indie, RPG, and Strategy. SteamPulse's latest observation records 9 players at 13 September 2026 - 04:42:10 UTC, a tracked peak of 1,298, and 84% positive reviews.

Overview tags

Rogue-likeDungeon CrawlerPerma DeathProcedural GenerationCraftingTurn-BasedSci-fiAliensLore-RichRPGStrategy2DStylizedLootZombies

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