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AR-K: The Great Escape cover art

AR-K: The Great Escape

GATO STUDIO · 2015-07-14

Steam

AdventureIndie

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Third person

Releases: Jul 14, 2015 (Linux), Jul 14, 2015 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Jul 14, 2015 (Mac)

AR-K: The Great Escape is the third episode in the classic point and click saga of AR-K. Help Alicia Van Volish to escape from District 8 and discover the source of the mysterious Golden Sphere through a great story, written by the 3 times Eisner award-winning writer Greg Rucka.

87%
positive of 125 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
75/100
critic score (1 outlets, IGDB)
70/100
IGDB user rating (3 ratings)
$7.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 11 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity up 10% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 40% of 24,614 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 3.1k–7.5k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 125 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $1.99 at Steam (2017-07-24)via IsThereAnyDeal

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
8820152025Week of 2015-07-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2015-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2015-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2015-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-04-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2016-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-06-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2016-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2016-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-11-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2016-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2017-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-09-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2017-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$12.99$1.992015-07-142020-12-012015-07-14 — best price $7.192015-11-09 — best price $3.192015-11-25 — best price $4.792015-12-22 — best price $2.952016-01-11 — best price $4.792016-02-05 — best price $7.792016-02-13 — best price $7.992016-04-11 — best price $7.992016-04-25 — best price $7.992016-07-04 — best price $3.192016-07-13 — best price $3.192016-09-05 — best price $3.992016-11-14 — best price $2.952016-11-24 — best price $3.992016-12-22 — best price $3.192017-01-16 — best price $2.792017-03-20 — best price $3.992017-05-22 — best price $2.792017-06-23 — best price $3.992017-07-24 — best price $1.992017-10-09 — best price $3.992017-11-23 — best price $4.792017-12-21 — best price $3.192018-01-15 — best price $3.992018-02-15 — best price $4.792018-03-19 — best price $2.952018-05-21 — best price $3.992018-05-29 — best price $6.492018-07-05 — best price $7.992018-10-08 — best price $7.992018-11-28 — best price $7.992019-01-03 — best price $7.992019-02-04 — best price $2.792019-03-19 — best price $7.992020-05-04 — best price $7.992020-05-25 — best price $7.992020-12-01 — best price $7.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

10
achievements tracked
30.9%
earned "Sabotage!"
24.6%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam Trading CardsFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Player tags

2D3D2.5DDarkLinearDifficultMinigamesNarrationDark HumorMinimalist

Census log

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

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