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A.V.

FirstForever Studios · MAGIC Spell Studios · 2015-02-13

Steam

AdventureIndie

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Virtual Reality

Releases: Feb 13, 2015 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Feb 13, 2015 (Mac), Feb 13, 2015 (Linux)

A.V. is a first-person stealth-puzzle-musical-adventure game (Try saying that 5 times fast). The game places the player in the role of a rogue music-processing algorithm from a computer's sound systems. From this role, the player can view the world only through audible means.

A.V. is a 2015 Adventure and Indie game that is free-to-play, with an estimated 0 .. 20,000 owners and a Mixed review sentiment (63% of 41 reviews).— census verdict as of 2026-10-04

63%
positive of 41 reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
Free
steam price (US)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 9 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity up 0% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 59% of 28,796 Adventure games in the census by review count.

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
5520152026Week of 2015-02-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2015-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-09-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportCaptions availableFamily Sharing2 DLC

Post-launch support: 2 DLC released, first 2015-02-16 (Steam store data)

Census log

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