The Lightning Struck Orphan
Short description
Build a deck of spells, create devastating synergies and defeat The Lightning Struck King.
- Developer
- Blackthornprod
- Publisher
- Blackthornprod
- Release
- Thu, May 22, 2025
- Price
- $4.99
- Reviews
- 13
- Positive
- 69%
- Followers
- n/a
- Owners (estimated)
- 0 – 20K
- Concurrent players
- n/a
- Genres
- Indie, Strategy
- Tags
Review count and SteamSpy's owner range agree well enough to narrow the estimate down to this band. Multiplied by the $4.99 launch price — there is not enough price history for this game to weight the copies by what they actually sold for. Before Steam's cut, VAT and refunds. How these numbers are calculated.
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History
Tracking started Aug 14, 2026. Charts appear once there is more than one data point — nothing has changed since.
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Roguebook | Abrakam Entertainment SA first game | 4 | − Card Battler − Perma Death + RPG + Indie | $24.99 | 3,406 | 84% | Thu, Jun 17, 2021 | $4.5m $4.5m – $6.1m |
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