Sacrifice was a visionary strategy game, too great to be forgotten
We're digging into the PC Gamer archives to publish pieces from years gone by. This article was originally published in PC Gamer issue 162, June 2006... Read more.
| App ID | 38440 |
|---|---|
| App type | Game |
| Developer | Shiny Entertainment |
| Publisher | Interplay Inc. |
| Release date | 2009-08-19 20:12 UTC |
| Original release | 2000-11-01 08:00 UTC |
| Store page | store.steampowered.com/app/38440 |
| Last store refresh | 1 hour ago |
| # | Executable | Arguments | OS | Description |
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| 0 | Sacrifice.exe |
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| Date | Price | Regular | Discount |
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| 2026-09-11 21:14 UTC | $24.99 | $24.99 |
| DLC | AppID | Release | Price |
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| No DLC known for this app. | |||
| Branch | Build ID | Description | Updated | Password |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| public | 18328348 | 2025-05-03 00:49 UTC |
| Depot | Name | OS | Size | Download | Public manifest | Notes |
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| 38442 | english | 159.65 MB | 0 B | 1930864778715025199 | ||
| 38443 | french | 155.37 MB | 0 B | 1550697883022528417 | ||
| 38444 | german | 424.86 MB | 0 B | 3734931544076743772 | ||
| 38445 | italian | 374.19 MB | 0 B | 7524898647169773319 | ||
| 38446 | spanish | 348.29 MB | 0 B | 9011488379415452120 |
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We're digging into the PC Gamer archives to publish pieces from years gone by. This article was originally published in PC Gamer issue 162, June 2006... Read more.
Don’t call it a comeback. Don’t call it, like, three comebacks. Interplay, once renowned as a house of PC ideas, has failed to get back off the ground across various attempts at resurrection, and it seems matters have gone no better for whoever is currently wearing the well-worn skinsuit. ‘Interplay’ has just announced a firesale of various intellectual properties. Which means that the likes of Descent, Freespace, Kingpin, Giants: Citizen Kabuto, MDK, Sacrifice and Earthworm bally Jim are now looking for new homes. Oh God, come on, let’s do this. Let’s get t
Have You Played? is an endless stream of game retrospectives. One a day, every day of the year, perhaps for all time. Centuries ago, some unknown ancient sage called Keeron Gillan wrote about a strange action strategy game called Sacrifice. I haven’t heard anyone mention it since. We have failed. …
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As previously reported, in Soul Sacrifice, players will find themselves making a lot of different choices as they progress through the story of a sacrificial lamb fighting through an evil sorcerer's past in the form of a living book to gain the power to fight for his/her freedom. Japan's gaming magazine Weekly Famitsu has revealed that your choices will also have an effect on your character's appearance. Sacrificing monsters will strengthen your magic level, while saving them increases your life level. Your level in magic or life will determine what sort of status bonus the various upgrades y
Last week I found myself in two conversations about resurrecting dead games. One was about Homeworld: I’d made a flippant comment about pressuring Relic to do a Kickstarter to make a sequel, and other people agreed. If Double Fine can raise millions for a point ‘n click, then why not millions for our lost and beloved space RTS? The other was about Syndicate. Wouldn’t it be great if we got a Syndicate sequel, finally, in the way we got a “proper” X-Com remake? No right-minded gamer would disagree. Hell, Paradox even seem to be planning to do so. But I got to thinking about how
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