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Aethernaut

Dragon Slumber · Iceberg Interactive · 2022-03-15

Steam

AdventureIndie

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: First person

Releases: Mar 15, 2022 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

You awaken without any knowledge of who you are, as a voice tells you that you are “The Aethernaut”, capable of exploring the Construct despite the deadly aether. Explore a series of rooms and solve the experiments as you discover who you are. Will you escape the Construct before it's too late?

Aethernaut is a 2022 Adventure and Indie game priced at $3.05, with an estimated 20,000 .. 50,000 owners and a Mixed review sentiment (60% of 42 reviews).

1
playing now
60%
positive of 43 reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Verified
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$3.05
steam price (US)

1 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 09:00 UTC (census sample)

You are guided by Doctor Louis Cornell who explains how the Construct came to be abandoned and why you were chosen to help save it. Soon however, unsettling voices start creeping into your mind, warning you against the doctor and pleading for your help.(Storyline via IGDB)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 1 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 10 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 23% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 58% of 28,808 Adventure games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-02

All-time low: $3.05 at Steam (2026-02-16)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $16.99 · on sale 31 of 40 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
8820222026Week of 2022-03-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

102026-09-15 10:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 18:00 — 0 players2026-09-18 01:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 09:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 17:00 — 0 players2026-09-22 00:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 08:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 15:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 23:00 — 0 players2026-09-27 06:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 14:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 21:00 — 0 players2026-10-01 05:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 12:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 20:00 — 0 players2026-10-05 04:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 12:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 19:00 — 0 players2026-10-09 03:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 10:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 18:00 — 0 players2026-10-13 02:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 09:00 — 1 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$16.99$3.052022-03-122026-08-242022-03-12 — best price $16.992022-08-11 — best price $14.442022-10-07 — best price $14.992022-11-15 — best price $16.992022-11-29 — best price $16.992022-12-12 — best price $16.992023-01-24 — best price $11.382023-03-23 — best price $16.992023-04-25 — best price $13.372023-05-26 — best price $13.492023-07-13 — best price $16.992023-08-07 — best price $8.492023-10-13 — best price $8.502023-11-01 — best price $8.492023-12-01 — best price $14.332024-01-05 — best price $13.372024-02-06 — best price $16.992024-03-22 — best price $13.372024-04-30 — best price $14.332024-06-05 — best price $13.372024-07-23 — best price $13.372024-08-01 — best price $13.372024-09-02 — best price $5.092024-10-21 — best price $16.992024-12-04 — best price $16.992025-01-05 — best price $14.332025-02-25 — best price $16.992025-04-07 — best price $16.992025-07-10 — best price $16.992025-08-05 — best price $14.332025-10-20 — best price $3.392025-12-02 — best price $13.372026-01-05 — best price $16.992026-03-03 — best price $14.332026-05-12 — best price $3.052026-06-25 — best price $3.052026-08-01 — best price $14.332026-08-24 — best price $3.05
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

22
achievements tracked
25.5%
earned "The Narrows await"
3.3%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam CloudFamily Sharing

5 supported languages: English, French, German, Japanese, Korean

Player tags

3DLGBTQ+PuzzleSci-fiSteampunkStory RichAtmosphericExplorationTime TravelFirst-Person

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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