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Abscission

Beyond Booleans · 2023-10-26

Steam

Adventure

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Side view, Text

Releases: Oct 26, 2023 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Abscission is a Lovecraftian, story-driven horror point-and-click investigation game. It involves searching crime scenes for evidence, combining clues and questioning suspects. Puzzles can have multiple solutions as you guide the protagonist - Detective Will Stanhope - through the story.

93%
positive of 126 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$8.99
steam price (US)

Detective Will Stanhope had been a rising star in the Ashfield Police Department until a terrifying case in 1986 almost broke him. He tranferred to vice, filling his days with small-time drug busts in the hope that there were better days ahead, However, A grisly murder soon drags him back to his darkest hour, back to where his life began to unravel... Lascado Prosthetics.(Storyline via IGDB)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 23 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~3/week).
  • · Review velocity up 10% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 37% of 26,641 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 2.5k–5.7k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 126 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

lowest across shops (ITAD)$8.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $4.49 at Steam (2024-10-28)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $8.99 · on sale 11 of 22 observed days · $4.50 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
141420232026Week of 2023-10-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-09-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$8.99$4.492023-10-262026-10-082023-10-26 — best price $8.992024-01-04 — best price $8.992024-02-12 — best price $8.992024-03-21 — best price $8.992024-04-01 — best price $8.992024-05-13 — best price $8.992024-07-11 — best price $8.992024-08-21 — best price $8.992024-09-28 — best price $8.992024-11-04 — best price $8.992024-12-04 — best price $8.992025-01-02 — best price $8.992025-02-21 — best price $8.992025-03-20 — best price $8.992025-04-29 — best price $8.992025-06-05 — best price $8.992025-07-10 — best price $8.992025-09-08 — best price $8.992025-10-06 — best price $8.992025-11-03 — best price $8.992025-12-13 — best price $8.992026-01-05 — best price $8.992026-01-19 — best price $8.992026-03-26 — best price $8.992026-04-13 — best price $8.992026-06-01 — best price $8.992026-07-09 — best price $8.992026-08-03 — best price $8.992026-09-16 — best price $8.992026-10-08 — best price $8.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Player tags

DarkCrimeHorrorMysteryAdventureDetectiveOld SchoolStory RichLovecraftianSingleplayer

Census log

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

Players also track

MasochisiaBad Dream: FeverStrangelandThe Whispering Valley | La vallée qui murmureThe Whisperer | Le murmureurDeep Sleep: Labyrinth of the Forsaken

Similarity via IGDB.

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