Mobile game · 2015

Crypt of the NecroDancer

Crypt of the NecroDancer is a hardcore roguelike rhythm game. Can you survive this deadly dungeon of dance, slay the NecroDancer, and recapture your still beating heart? Or will you be a slave to the rhythm for all eternity?

Estimated daily players

~50,0000.0%

Range 3.6K–430K

Estimated total players

~1,000,0000.0%

Range 360K–2.9M

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Estimates, not counts — nobody publishes real player numbers for mobile games, so these are modelled from public signals. How we work them out

Apr 23, 2015iOSACB PGCERO BESRB 18PEGI TCLASS IND 12

Adventure Indie Music Role-playing (RPG)Action Fantasy

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App Store (iPhone)

What the estimate rests on

Steam 68%
Reddit 18%
Twitch 13%

Player estimates

Nobody publishes how many people play Crypt of the NecroDancer, so these figures are modelled from the public counts on Steam, Reddit, Twitch. Each count stands in a roughly known ratio to a population — one Play rating per ~45 players, one Steam review per ~35 owners — and the estimates below combine those readings, weighted by how much each source can be trusted to speak for the whole game. Read the range as the answer and the headline as its middle.

Estimated daily players

~50,000

0.0%

Range 3.6K – 430K

Built from the live counts: Steam concurrents, Discord and Reddit members online, Twitch viewers.

Estimated total players

~1,000,000

0.0%

Range 360K – 2.9M

Everyone who has ever played, from the cumulative counts: store ratings and installs, Steam reviews, members and subscribers.

Average estimated players per month

Mean estimated total players for Crypt of the NecroDancer per calendar month, newest first
Month	Estimated total players	Change
August 2026	~960,000	—

Community activity

Last checked Aug 9, 2026

Store signals

How many people have rated, reviewed or installed Crypt of the NecroDancer where it is sold.

Steam players in game

132

Reviews: 26,456

First reading taken Aug 9, 2026 — the chart appears once there are two.

Community signals

How many people gather around Crypt of the NecroDancer outside the stores — members, subscribers and live viewers.

Reddit members

14,421

First reading taken Aug 9, 2026 — the chart appears once there are two.

Twitch viewers

Live channels: 1

First reading taken Aug 9, 2026 — the chart appears once there are two.

Not tracked for Crypt of the NecroDancer: Google Play, App Store, Discord, YouTube. A platform appears here once the game has a link to it — most mobile games have no Steam port or subreddit, so a gap is normal rather than a sign the game is small.

Storyline

In the main game, the player controls Cadence, the daughter of a famed treasure hunter who has gone missing. In searching for him, she falls into a crypt controlled by the NecroDancer, who steals Cadence's heart and forces her to challenge his minions to retrieve it. She is forced to fight through the crypt's dungeon with her actions tied to the beat of the music and her heart, so as to stay alive and defeat the NecroDancer. Near the heart of the crypt, Cadence finds one of the NecroDancer's minions named "Dead Ringer". She defeats him, revealing that it was her missing father and frees him from the NecroDancer's control, allowing him to help her defeat the NecroDancer. They take the NecroDancer's magical golden Lute and use it to kill him, and then use its power to resurrect Cadence's dead mother, Melody. However, they discover that the lute is cursed; Melody must keep playing it forever to sustain her life, but the lute will gradually consume her humanity just as it did to the NecroDancer. Melody enters the crypt in search of answers and a way to break the curse of the lute. When Melody reaches the end of the crypt, she uses the Golden Lute to resurrect the NecroDancer and find answers, but he attacks and Melody defeats him. The NecroDancer tries to flee but is cast into a crevice by Aria (Melody's mother) who was lying in a coffin with a dagger in her chest and is brought back to life by the Lute. Aria reveals that she knows how to break the curse of the lute, but was betrayed by the NecroDancer and left for dead. Intending to finish what she started, she begins her ascent out of the crypt in search of a shrine that will destroy the lute once and for all. When Aria reaches the shrine, she is attacked by the lute itself, which mutates into a large monster in an attempt to save itself from destruction. After defeating the lute's monster form, Aria sacrifices her life to destroy the cursed instrument, returning Melody to full life and allowing her to return to her family, who later bury Aria together.

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Frequently asked questions

How many people play Crypt of the NecroDancer?

We estimate that about 1,000,000 people have played Crypt of the NecroDancer — plausibly between 360K and 2.9M. Around 50,000 of them play on a given day, in a range of 3.6K and 430K. Both figures are modelled from public counts on Steam, Reddit and Twitch rather than published by the developer, so read them as a scale rather than as a headcount.

Is Crypt of the NecroDancer still active?

Yes. Crypt of the NecroDancer is holding steady — it measured within a percent of where it was a week ago. We recheck every source daily, and the charts on this page show each platform's readings over time.

How are the Crypt of the NecroDancer player estimates worked out?

Nobody publishes player counts for mobile games, so we infer them. Each public count we can read is converted into a population using a documented ratio — roughly one Google Play rating per 45 people who played, one Steam review per 35 owners, one Discord member per 40 players — and the live counts (Steam concurrents, members online, Twitch viewers) are converted the same way into a daily figure. Those separate estimates are then averaged in proportion to how much each source can be trusted, which is why sources that disagree widen the published range instead of cancelling out. This page is built on 1 readings taken since August 9, 2026.