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Acolyte cover art

Acolyte

Superstring · Pantaloon · 2022-06-28

Steam

AdventureStrategy

Modes: Single player

Releases: Jun 28, 2022 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Acolyte is a narrative ARG/Detective game that gives you your own Acolyte; a digital assistant you can talk to freely with unlimited dialogue options. Just like a real conversation.

Acolyte is an Adventure and Strategy game released in 2022, priced at $10.99, with Mostly Positive reviews (77% of 64 reviews) and an estimated 50,000 .. 100,000 owners.

0
playing now
77%
positive of 65 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$10.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 19:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 14 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity up 27% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 48% of 28,771 Adventure games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-02

Estimated sales: 1.3k–2.9k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 65 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $1.64 at Steam (2025-10-01)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $10.99 · on sale 8 of 16 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
141420222026Week of 2022-06-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

002026-09-15 05:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 13:00 — 0 players2026-09-17 20:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 04:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 11:00 — 0 players2026-09-21 19:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 03:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 10:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 18:00 — 0 players2026-09-27 01:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 09:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 16:00 — 0 players2026-10-01 00:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 07:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 15:00 — 0 players2026-10-04 23:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 06:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 14:00 — 0 players2026-10-08 21:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 05:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 12:00 — 0 players2026-10-12 20:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 04:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 19:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$10.99$1.642022-06-282026-07-092022-06-28 — best price $9.892022-09-05 — best price $8.242022-09-22 — best price $9.892022-10-24 — best price $6.592022-11-07 — best price $7.692022-11-23 — best price $6.592022-12-23 — best price $6.592023-03-16 — best price $5.492023-07-07 — best price $10.992023-12-21 — best price $3.842024-06-27 — best price $2.742024-11-27 — best price $2.742024-12-20 — best price $2.192025-03-13 — best price $2.192025-05-01 — best price $5.492025-06-26 — best price $2.192025-10-01 — best price $1.642025-12-18 — best price $1.642026-01-12 — best price $1.642026-02-23 — best price $1.642026-03-19 — best price $1.642026-04-22 — best price $10.992026-05-05 — best price $10.992026-05-22 — best price $10.992026-06-25 — best price $1.642026-07-09 — best price $10.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

20
achievements tracked
76.4%
earned "//GETTING TO KNOW ME"
21%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFamily Sharing2 DLC

Post-launch support: 2 DLC released, first 2022-06-29 (Steam store data)

Player tags

2DPuzzleMysteryStrategyDetectiveConspiracyStory RichConversationSingleplayerInvestigation

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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