Shepherds of the Abyss overview

Overview

Shepherds of the Abyss comes from Impulse Games and is published by Impulse Games. It arrived on Steam on Nov 18, 2016, and it sits naturally among Single-player, Multi-player, PvP, Online PvP, and Family Sharing. SteamPulse tracks it across Windows and Steam so readers get a quick useful snapshot, not just a wall of numbers.

Players and reviews

Shepherds of the Abyss's latest SteamPulse observation recorded 0 players at 4 October 2026 - 21:59:32 UTC, with a tracked peak near 1. This peak is the highest value in the available SteamPulse record and may not include activity before tracking began. Player reaction is 55% positive across 22 reviews.

Language and system requirements

Shepherds of the Abyss is available in 4 languages including:

regional rating details listed by Steam when available

Sales, recommendations, and streams

Shepherds of the Abyss has sold up to 722 units and has recommendation data pending. The estimated VGI revenue is $5,716. On Twitch, 0 streamers are live with around 0 total watchers.

Shepherds of the Abyss overview details

Shepherds of the Abyss combines live player counts with reviews, pricing, platform support, Store metadata, dated player history, media, recent news, and related games.

Steam Store description

Shepherds of the Abyss is an action-packed, multiplayer tower defense game - one inspired by some of the best tower defense mods for Warcraft 3. Some of its key features include: "mazing" "Mazing" is the art of filling a wide-open space in a tower defense game with your towers to build the longest possible path (the maze) that the enemy's units must travel before reaching your throne. "Mazing" is a core skill in Shepherds of the Abyss, and it's put to the test with random obstacles and waypoints spawned each game to prevent you from memorizing the strongest maze setup. unique Unit Buffs Every unit in Shepherds of the Abyss is granted various buffs with significant strengths, such as making them heavily armored, increasing their movement speed, granting them high regeneration, or giving them shields. The towers all provide hard counters to these buffs, so building the correct towers in optimal locations is key to success. empowering towers Shepherds of the Abyss is a dual resource tower defense game. Gold is used to build and upgrade, while the power of souls you've collected from dying units is used to empower towers on a wave to wave basis. Empowering towers unleashes additional strength and functionality to help them overcome the units' buffs. For example, some towers gain damage over time while others snare units they attack. round Separation Gameplay is separated into multiple phases - Preparation Phase, where all building, upgrading, and empowering is done, and then Combat Phase, where units attack all players at once and souls are harvested. Incoming Wave Manipulatio…

SteamPulse editorial summary

Shepherds of the Abyss is listed as a game with $5.99. It supports Windows, belongs to Single-player, Multi-player, PvP, Online PvP, and Family Sharing, and is associated with Action, Indie, RPG, and Strategy. SteamPulse's latest observation records 0 players at 4 October 2026 - 21:59:32 UTC, a tracked peak of 1, and 55% positive reviews.

Overview tags

Tower DefenseActionStrategyRPGIndieMultiplayerSingleplayer

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