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Alpha Polaris : A Horror Adventure Game

Turmoil Games · 2015-10-21

Steam

AdventureIndie

Modes: Single player

Releases: Oct 22, 2015 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Alpha Polaris is an oldschool adventure game focusing on slow-burning character driven horror and environmental themes. It draws inspiration from such sources as Inuit legends and Cthulhu mythos.

2
playing now
81%
positive of 616 reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
74/100
IGDB user rating (12 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Free
steam price (US)

2 players in-game as of 2026-08-29 14:00 UTC (census sample)

Alpha Polaris is a point-and-click horror adventure game, developed by Finnish company Turmoil Games and published by Just a Game. It was released for Microsoft Windows on June 24, 2011. The game is set in a research station in Greenland.

Health check

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  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 37% of 11,424 Adventure games in the census by review count.

All-time low: $1.49 at Steam (2018-06-21)via IsThereAnyDeal

Players online

402026-08-11 18:00 — 2 players2026-08-12 09:00 — 1 players2026-08-13 01:00 — 0 players2026-08-13 17:00 — 0 players2026-08-14 09:00 — 1 players2026-08-15 01:00 — 0 players2026-08-15 17:00 — 1 players2026-08-16 09:00 — 1 players2026-08-17 01:00 — 1 players2026-08-17 16:00 — 0 players2026-08-18 08:00 — 0 players2026-08-19 00:00 — 0 players2026-08-19 16:00 — 2 players2026-08-20 07:00 — 0 players2026-08-20 23:00 — 0 players2026-08-21 15:00 — 2 players2026-08-22 07:00 — 0 players2026-08-22 22:00 — 1 players2026-08-23 14:00 — 1 players2026-08-24 06:00 — 2 players2026-08-24 22:00 — 4 players2026-08-25 14:00 — 0 players2026-08-26 06:00 — 1 players2026-08-26 22:00 — 0 players2026-08-27 14:00 — 0 players2026-08-28 06:00 — 1 players2026-08-28 22:00 — 1 players2026-08-29 14:00 — 2 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$11.99$0.002015-10-222021-01-162015-10-22 — best price $9.592015-10-29 — best price $8.392015-11-25 — best price $8.392015-12-22 — best price $5.992016-02-08 — best price $5.992016-04-11 — best price $4.792016-06-13 — best price $3.592016-06-23 — best price $3.592016-07-19 — best price $9.992016-09-05 — best price $9.992016-10-28 — best price $2.992016-12-05 — best price $2.992016-12-22 — best price $2.992017-01-12 — best price $2.992017-02-06 — best price $2.992017-04-10 — best price $1.992017-06-12 — best price $2.992017-06-23 — best price $1.992017-10-16 — best price $2.992017-10-26 — best price $2.992017-11-22 — best price $2.992017-12-21 — best price $2.992018-02-19 — best price $2.992018-04-23 — best price $2.992018-06-21 — best price $1.492018-07-30 — best price $2.992018-10-08 — best price $2.492018-10-29 — best price $2.992018-11-21 — best price $2.992018-12-20 — best price $2.992019-01-07 — best price $2.492019-04-01 — best price $2.492019-05-27 — best price $2.492019-06-26 — best price $2.492019-10-28 — best price $1.492021-01-16 — best price $0.00
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

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Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam Trading CardsFamily Sharing

3 supported languages: English, German, Russian

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)88836%18

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

DarkIndieHorrorMysteryAdventureAtmosphericMultiplayerFree to PlayLovecraftianSingleplayer

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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