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Apartment Story

Blue Rider Interactive · 2024-09-26

Steam

IndieSimulation

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Third person

Releases: Sep 26, 2024 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

A third-person thriller about three people and a gun in a single apartment. Navigate escalating real-time narrative events whilst managing Sims-esq stats to stay strong for an inevitable showdown. You play as Arthur, a young man trying to make it day to day before a gun turns his life upside down.

93%
positive of 61 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
70/100
critic score (1 outlets, IGDB)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$7.00
steam price (US)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 8 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 20% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (25 reviews).
  • · Top 45% of 50,300 Indie games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 1.2k–2.7k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 61 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $5.60 at Steam (2026-06-25)via IsThereAnyDeal

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
252520242026Week of 2024-09-26: 25 positiveWeek of 2024-10-03: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-10-10: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-10-17: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-10-24: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-10-31: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-10-31: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-11-07: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-11-14: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-11-28: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-12-26: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-01-30: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-02-06: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-05-08: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-05-15: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-05-29: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-14: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-18: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-08: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-23: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerFull controller supportFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Player tags

3DNoirDramaActionCasualCookingRomanceLife SimThrillerDating Sim

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.