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After Hours cover art

After Hours

Petter Malmehed · 2018-12-20

Steam

AdventureIndieSimulation

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: First person

Releases: Dec 20, 2018 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Groundbreaking research is encrypted on a computer from the 80's. Look through the computer and search the internet to crack the encryption in this augmented reality puzzle game.

After Hours is a free-to-play Adventure, Indie, and Simulation title released in 2018, with an owner estimate of 0 .. 20,000 and a Mostly Positive review sentiment (70% of 77 reviews).

71%
positive of 78 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
1h
to beat · rushed 1h
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
Free
steam price (US)

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 24 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~3/week).
  • · Review velocity up 100% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 45% of 29,676 Adventure games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-02

All-time low: $0.50 at Steam (2019-07-12) · bundled 2×via IsThereAnyDeal

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
5520182026Week of 2018-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$9.99$0.002018-12-212019-12-112018-12-21 — best price $9.992019-01-21 — best price $4.992019-01-28 — best price $9.992019-03-25 — best price $2.492019-04-08 — best price $9.992019-04-22 — best price $2.992019-07-04 — best price $0.892019-07-10 — best price $2.992019-07-12 — best price $0.502019-07-26 — best price $2.992019-10-31 — best price $0.592019-11-01 — best price $2.992019-12-11 — best price $0.00
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerFamily Sharing

Player tags

IndieRetroHorrorAdventureSimulationMultiplayerFree to PlaySingleplayerPoint & Click

Census log

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

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