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-256

CorpsePickle · 2023-04-20

Steam

AdventureFree To PlayIndieSimulation

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: First person

Releases: Apr 20, 2023 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

The last scenery you faced was a quite unfamiliar hotel office. Leaving all the uncertainties behind, you have to perform significant or insignificant tasks from here on out. -256 is a pixel graphics first-person mystery hotel walking simulator.

-256 is a free-to-play Adventure, Free To Play, Indie and Simulation game released in 2023, with a Very Positive sentiment based on 82% of 231 reviews.

82%
positive of 231 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
Free
steam price (US)

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 28 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~4/week).
  • · Review velocity down 20% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 38% of 18,497 Adventure games in the census by review count.

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
262620232026Week of 2023-04-01: 26 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-09-01: 2 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Completion

8
achievements tracked
69.5%
earned "Task #1"
43.3%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerFamily Sharing

2 supported languages: English, Korean

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)16652%8

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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