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A Highland Song cover art

A Highland Song

inkle Ltd · 2023-12-05

Steam

AdventureIndie

Modes: Single player

Releases: Dec 05, 2023 (Nintendo Switch), Dec 05, 2023 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Dec 05, 2023 (Mac)

Moira McKinnon is running away. A wild adventure through the Scottish Highlands, with open platforming and dynamic storytelling, maps and music. From the creators of Heaven's Vault and 80 Days.

3
playing now
87%
positive of 683 reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
81/100
critic score (2 outlets, IGDB)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$17.99
steam price (US)

3 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 11:00 UTC (census sample)

A Highland Song is an adventure game by Inkle. It was released for Microsoft Windows and Nintendo Switch on 5 December 2023.

Health check

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  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 36% of 11,450 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 14k–31k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 683 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $5.39 at Steam (2026-05-30) · bundled 2×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $17.99 · on sale 8 of 16 observed days (census price snapshots)

Players online

502026-08-12 04:00 — 0 players2026-08-12 20:00 — 3 players2026-08-13 11:00 — 2 players2026-08-14 03:00 — 1 players2026-08-14 19:00 — 4 players2026-08-15 11:00 — 2 players2026-08-16 03:00 — 2 players2026-08-16 19:00 — 4 players2026-08-17 11:00 — 2 players2026-08-18 02:00 — 3 players2026-08-18 18:00 — 5 players2026-08-19 10:00 — 3 players2026-08-20 02:00 — 4 players2026-08-20 17:00 — 3 players2026-08-21 09:00 — 1 players2026-08-22 01:00 — 2 players2026-08-22 17:00 — 5 players2026-08-23 09:00 — 3 players2026-08-24 00:00 — 2 players2026-08-24 16:00 — 3 players2026-08-25 08:00 — 0 players2026-08-26 00:00 — 1 players2026-08-26 16:00 — 4 players2026-08-27 08:00 — 1 players2026-08-28 00:00 — 0 players2026-08-29 04:00 — 1 players2026-08-29 19:00 — 4 players2026-08-30 11:00 — 3 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$17.99$5.392023-12-052026-08-062023-12-05 — best price $16.192024-01-29 — best price $15.292024-03-14 — best price $14.392024-05-08 — best price $17.992024-05-16 — best price $12.592024-06-27 — best price $12.592024-07-18 — best price $11.692024-07-25 — best price $17.992024-08-26 — best price $17.992024-11-11 — best price $17.992024-12-04 — best price $17.992025-01-02 — best price $17.992025-02-20 — best price $17.992025-03-20 — best price $17.992025-05-08 — best price $17.992025-07-10 — best price $17.992025-08-14 — best price $17.992025-10-06 — best price $17.992025-12-02 — best price $17.992026-01-05 — best price $17.992026-03-18 — best price $17.992026-03-26 — best price $17.992026-06-13 — best price $17.992026-07-09 — best price $17.992026-08-06 — best price $17.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

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Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsmacOSFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam CloudFamily Sharing1 DLC

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)7293%36
Switch (Nintendo)430%0

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

Player tags

2DNatureAdventureNarrationHand-drawnPlatformerStory RichAtmosphericExplorationSingleplayer

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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