Celestial Return - Player count and game stats

Celestial Return is tagged as Adventure, Indie, RPG. It is published by Metaphor Games (developer) and Shoreline Games (publisher) and released on 14 Jul, 2026. This page tracks live Steam player counts, historical peaks, and regional pricing. Steam player count is currently 9 players live and the all-time peak was 64 concurrent players on 15 July 2026. Current activity is below its all-time peak.

Developer: Metaphor Games

Publisher: Shoreline Games

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Release Date: 14 Jul, 2026

Official site On Steam Details

Est. sales: 2,920 High confidence

Top-selling rank: #83 · 30d · #541 YTD

About Celestial Return

Loot, bribe, gamble, survive. The dice will be your savior or your downfall in this story-driven RPG. Every roll matters when trying to uncover cosmic horrors and outwit megacorps. Pray your next roll won’t be your last.

More Celestial Return Details

A dying city. A string of suicides. A detective with nothing left to lose.

Netherveil City eats the weak. Its streets bleed neon, its corpses crawl back to life, and its secrets? They'll gnaw through your sanity. Step into the worn boots of Detective Howard. Armed with a rusted badge, a sentient rose that won't shut up, and a pocketful of stolen dice.

Explore the city. Interrogate the dead. Expose the c*rpos.
Investigate. Make choices. Loot the dice. Roll the dice.
And survive. (Optional.)

Dice are oxygen. They keep you alive. Earn 'em, spend 'em, lose 'em. Hoard too long, and opportunities vanish. Roll recklessly, and resources burn.

There’s no perfect build. No power fantasies. Just survival... barely.

Your choices build character. Your character builds choices.

Intelligence picks locks in silence. Virtue pleads for mercy. Foolishness laughs at the abyss.
These fragments clash, corrupt, and rewrite your path mid-conversation. Choose your poison and deal with the consequences.

A hand-shattered art style. Where manga’s precision meets the raw nerve of American comics. Ripping pages from legends like Blame!, Biomega, Akira, and Berserk. Our artistry aims to evoke the same depth and intensity that made these series iconic.

Gear up for an auditory assault. Noir Jazz, Cyberpunk Techno, Death Metal. This isn't background noise. Sonic warfare.

Heroes don't last long in Netherveil. This is a manifesto for the forgotten, the erased, the expendable, those never given a chance. It’s about those who were never meant to survive, yet somehow still do. It’s about the existential terror of being alive in a world ruled by forces you can’t see. It’s about resistance.

“I’m here, and I won’t go quietly.”

Controller Support: full
Genres: Adventure, Indie, RPG
Categories: Single-player, Steam Achievements, Full controller support, Camera Comfort, Custom Volume Controls, Keyboard Only Option, Mouse Only Option, #category_playable_at_your_own_pace, Playable without Timed Input, DualShock Controller Support, DualShock Controller Support, DualSense Controller Support, DualSense Controller Support, Save Anytime, Touch Only Option, Steam Cloud, Remote Play on Phone, Remote Play on Tablet, Family Sharing
Supported Languages: English
Last Checked: 2026-08-04T22:18:51.088Z

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Current Viewers: 5

Largest Live Stream: 5

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