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Art of Murder - Hunt for the Puppeteer

City Interactive S.A. · 2018-07-13

Steam

Adventure

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Third person

Releases: Feb 17, 2009 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

A series of dark macabre murders is crisscrossing two continents and FBI agent Nicole Bonnet is called in again to investigate. The only clue, mysterious dolls dressed in 18th century costumes, are left next to the deceased. What are the motives behind the actions of an insane pitiless slayer?

Art of Murder - Hunt for the Puppeteer is an Adventure game released in 2018, priced at $4.99, with an estimated 50,000 .. 100,000 owners and a Mostly Positive review sentiment (71% of 164 reviews).

0
playing now
71%
positive of 164 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
80/100
IGDB user rating (11 ratings)
10h
time to beat (IGDB)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$4.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 19:00 UTC (census sample)

Art of Murder: Hunt for the Puppeteer, also known as Art of Murder 2, is an adventure game developed and published by City Interactive and is the second installment in the Art of Murder series. Although it was published by City Interactive in 2008, the American version of the game was not published until 2009.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 13 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity up 8% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 32% of 28,739 Adventure games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-01

Estimated sales: 4.1k–9.8k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 164 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

Steam$0.99-80%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $0.50 at GamersGate (2018-10-01) · bundled 2×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $4.99 · on sale 52 of 74 observed days · $0.49 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

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

Players online

302026-09-15 04:00 — 1 players2026-09-16 12:00 — 0 players2026-09-17 20:00 — 2 players2026-09-19 03:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 11:00 — 1 players2026-09-21 19:00 — 1 players2026-09-23 02:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 10:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 17:00 — 2 players2026-09-27 01:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 08:00 — 1 players2026-09-29 16:00 — 1 players2026-09-30 23:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 07:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 14:00 — 1 players2026-10-04 22:00 — 2 players2026-10-06 06:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 13:00 — 1 players2026-10-08 21:00 — 1 players2026-10-10 04:00 — 1 players2026-10-11 12:00 — 3 players2026-10-12 20:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 03:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 19:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$9.95$0.792015-01-012026-10-142015-01-01 — best price $4.982017-08-11 — best price $9.952018-07-13 — best price $3.992018-11-26 — best price $4.992019-03-28 — best price $4.992019-09-20 — best price $4.992020-01-17 — best price $4.992020-04-21 — best price $4.992020-08-03 — best price $4.992020-10-26 — best price $1.492020-12-05 — best price $3.662021-01-27 — best price $3.662021-04-05 — best price $1.492021-06-21 — best price $1.492021-09-06 — best price $1.392021-11-20 — best price $4.992022-01-22 — best price $4.992022-03-05 — best price $4.992022-05-16 — best price $4.992022-07-07 — best price $3.662022-08-30 — best price $4.482022-11-21 — best price $1.952023-01-09 — best price $1.992023-03-27 — best price $4.992023-06-01 — best price $1.742023-07-25 — best price $4.442023-11-06 — best price $1.742024-01-16 — best price $1.992024-04-15 — best price $4.992024-07-29 — best price $1.252024-12-04 — best price $4.992025-06-03 — best price $3.662025-09-29 — best price $0.992025-12-11 — best price $0.792026-02-02 — best price $3.662026-04-28 — best price $3.662026-07-06 — best price $1.002026-10-13 — best price $0.992026-10-14 — best price $0.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

1712026-06-02 — 9 pageviews2026-06-06 — 5 pageviews2026-06-10 — 5 pageviews2026-06-14 — 5 pageviews2026-06-18 — 7 pageviews2026-06-22 — 11 pageviews2026-06-26 — 2 pageviews2026-06-30 — 5 pageviews2026-07-04 — 7 pageviews2026-07-08 — 8 pageviews2026-07-12 — 9 pageviews2026-07-16 — 9 pageviews2026-07-20 — 5 pageviews2026-07-24 — 8 pageviews2026-07-28 — 7 pageviews2026-08-01 — 9 pageviews2026-08-05 — 3 pageviews2026-08-09 — 6 pageviews2026-08-13 — 7 pageviews2026-08-17 — 5 pageviews2026-08-21 — 4 pageviews2026-08-25 — 5 pageviews2026-08-29 — 4 pageviews2026-09-02 — 5 pageviews2026-09-06 — 7 pageviews2026-09-10 — 3 pageviews2026-09-14 — 7 pageviews2026-09-18 — 11 pageviews2026-09-22 — 6 pageviews2026-09-26 — 7 pageviews2026-09-30 — 7 pageviews2026-10-04 — 4 pageviews2026-10-08 — 1 pageviews2026-10-11 — 4 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerFamily Sharing

6 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Polish

Player tags

MysteryAdventureDetectivePoint & ClickFemale Protagonist

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.