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At the Mountains of Madness

Team Clockworks · 2016-03-25

Steam

ActionAdventureIndieEarly Access

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: First person

Releases: Mar 25, 2016 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Play the role of Professor Dyer, a geologist at Miskatonic University who travelled to Antarctica in 1930 as the leader of a research expedition, in this 3D first-person horror survival adventure game.

33%
positive of 66 reviews
Mostly Negative
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
40/100
IGDB user rating (0 ratings)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$19.99
steam price (US)

About This Game At the Mountains of Madness is an indie first-person horror adventure game with survival elements in which you assume the role of the Professor Dyer, geologist of the Miskatonic University, who in 1930 traveled to Antarctica as a leader of a research expedition. But in Antarctica disaster always lurks adventurers like a shadow. And in the most cold and desolate place on earth it is easy to find death or worse, you can find the Mountains of Madness “I am forced into speech because men of science have refused to follow my advice without knowing why.” H.P. Lovecraft Fight agains(Storyline via IGDB)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 4 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 (13 reviews).
  • · Top 48% of 24,813 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 1.6k–4.0k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 66 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $4.99 at IndieGameStand (2015-04-27) · bundled 2×via IsThereAnyDeal

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
101020162026Week of 2016-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2016-03-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2016-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2016-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2016-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2016-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$22.00$4.992015-04-242020-07-142015-04-24 — best price $9.992015-04-27 — best price $4.992015-05-04 — best price $9.992015-08-12 — best price $22.002016-03-25 — best price $19.002016-03-26 — best price $17.992016-04-01 — best price $19.992016-06-28 — best price $15.992016-07-04 — best price $19.992016-07-20 — best price $19.992016-09-05 — best price $6.792016-09-09 — best price $19.992016-09-20 — best price $16.992016-10-18 — best price $15.992016-10-28 — best price $7.992016-11-01 — best price $19.992018-04-20 — best price $19.992018-07-17 — best price $15.992018-08-02 — best price $19.992020-03-27 — best price $17.992020-07-14 — best price $19.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam Trading CardsFamily Sharing

5 supported languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Russian

Player tags

IndieActionHorrorAdventureEarly AccessLovecraftian

Census log

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

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