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A New Beginning - Final Cut cover art

A New Beginning - Final Cut

Daedalic Entertainment · 2012-12-11

SteamGOG

AdventureIndie

Modes: Single player

Releases: Dec 11, 2012 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

A New Beginning is a cinematic adventure-thriller done graphic novel-style.

7
playing now
74%
positive of 2.2k reviews
Mostly Positive
steam rating
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
75/100
critic score (2 outlets, IGDB)
70/100
IGDB user rating (15 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$9.99
steam price (US)

7 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 03:00 UTC (census sample)

A New Beginning is a point-and-click adventure video game developed by Daedalic Entertainment and published by Lace Mamba Global for Microsoft Windows, OS X and iOS. The game's story, focused on theme of climate change, sees players assume the role of two different characters - a scientist from the 1990s who developed a clean fuel source method; and a time traveller from the distant future where climate changes has brought the world close to extinction - who must work together to change the course of history for the sake of humanity's survival in the future. The game received mixed reviews following its release.

Health check

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  • · Top 21% of 11,404 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 86k–173k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 2,159 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

GOG$0.99-90%
Humble Store$0.99-90%
Steam$0.99-90%
GOG$0.99-90%
lowest across shops (ITAD)$0.99-90%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $0.49 at GreenManGaming (2016-02-05) · bundled 11×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $9.99 · on sale 101 of 147 observed days · $0.50 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Players online

2122026-08-06 23:00 — 6 players2026-08-07 07:00 — 7 players2026-08-07 15:00 — 8 players2026-08-07 23:00 — 7 players2026-08-08 07:00 — 8 players2026-08-08 15:00 — 9 players2026-08-08 23:00 — 10 players2026-08-09 07:00 — 3 players2026-08-09 15:00 — 7 players2026-08-09 23:00 — 8 players2026-08-10 07:00 — 5 players2026-08-10 15:00 — 13 players2026-08-10 23:00 — 10 players2026-08-11 07:00 — 7 players2026-08-11 15:00 — 12 players2026-08-12 23:00 — 4 players2026-08-14 06:00 — 4 players2026-08-15 14:00 — 10 players2026-08-16 22:00 — 5 players2026-08-18 05:00 — 7 players2026-08-19 13:00 — 3 players2026-08-20 20:00 — 9 players2026-08-22 04:00 — 7 players2026-08-23 12:00 — 2 players2026-08-24 19:00 — 16 players2026-08-26 03:00 — 2 players2026-08-27 11:00 — 15 players2026-08-28 19:00 — 17 players2026-08-30 03:00 — 7 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$11.36$0.792015-01-012026-08-302015-01-01 — best price $1.482015-06-17 — best price $0.992015-11-06 — best price $9.992016-03-29 — best price $1.492016-09-01 — best price $9.992017-02-13 — best price $9.992017-09-05 — best price $9.992018-03-19 — best price $9.992018-09-28 — best price $7.732019-03-18 — best price $0.992019-09-28 — best price $10.932020-02-01 — best price $9.992020-05-21 — best price $0.852020-09-10 — best price $0.992020-12-04 — best price $9.992021-02-25 — best price $9.992021-05-10 — best price $0.892021-08-30 — best price $9.992021-12-08 — best price $7.342022-03-22 — best price $9.992022-07-11 — best price $9.992022-11-04 — best price $9.992023-03-03 — best price $9.992023-07-05 — best price $7.892023-11-17 — best price $0.902024-03-14 — best price $0.992024-06-10 — best price $9.992024-10-14 — best price $9.992025-03-19 — best price $0.992025-07-31 — best price $9.992025-11-24 — best price $0.992026-04-03 — best price $9.992026-07-20 — best price $1.002026-08-30 — best price $0.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

2762026-05-29 — 11 pageviews2026-06-01 — 14 pageviews2026-06-04 — 15 pageviews2026-06-07 — 16 pageviews2026-06-10 — 20 pageviews2026-06-13 — 13 pageviews2026-06-16 — 14 pageviews2026-06-19 — 17 pageviews2026-06-22 — 14 pageviews2026-06-25 — 8 pageviews2026-06-28 — 16 pageviews2026-07-01 — 17 pageviews2026-07-04 — 9 pageviews2026-07-07 — 18 pageviews2026-07-10 — 14 pageviews2026-07-13 — 26 pageviews2026-07-16 — 13 pageviews2026-07-19 — 20 pageviews2026-07-22 — 9 pageviews2026-07-25 — 16 pageviews2026-07-28 — 11 pageviews2026-07-31 — 16 pageviews2026-08-03 — 18 pageviews2026-08-06 — 13 pageviews2026-08-09 — 14 pageviews2026-08-12 — 14 pageviews2026-08-15 — 20 pageviews2026-08-18 — 15 pageviews2026-08-21 — 14 pageviews2026-08-24 — 27 pageviews2026-08-26 — 10 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

28
achievements tracked
63.6%
earned "Scrapped and Trashed"
33%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFamily Sharing1 DLC

6 supported languages: English, German, French, Italian, Spanish - Spain, Russian

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)4,79732%28

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

Player tags

2DIndieRetro1990'sPuzzleSci-fiClassicAdventureEscape RoomTime Travel

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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