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Bare Witness cover art

Bare Witness

AlterWorlds · 2024-07-20

Steam

AdventureCasualIndie

Modes: Single player

Releases: Apr 13, 2021 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Apr 13, 2021 (Mac), Apr 13, 2021 (Android)

Bare Witness is an adult visual novel set at the fictional Plattsburgh College of the Arts in New York. With lots of potential branching paths and 11 primary endings, you may find yourself returning again and again to pursue one or more of the six love interests that catch your eye.

91%
positive of 716 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
$12.99
steam price (US)

When a young man heads off to art school after a major upheaval in his life, he has no idea that someone from his past is waiting there to potentially cause further disaster.(Storyline via IGDB)

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 95 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~12/week).
  • · Review velocity down 31% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 29% of 14,434 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 14k–32k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 716 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $8.70 at Steam (2025-08-27)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $12.99 · on sale 11 of 22 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
13413420242026Week of 2024-07-01: 134 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 77 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 64 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 33 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 36 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 29 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-09-01: 3 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$12.99$8.702024-07-202026-07-252024-07-20 — best price $9.742024-09-12 — best price $10.912024-11-27 — best price $10.392024-12-19 — best price $9.742025-01-03 — best price $9.742025-03-03 — best price $9.092025-03-13 — best price $9.092025-04-17 — best price $9.742025-06-26 — best price $9.742025-08-27 — best price $8.702025-09-29 — best price $9.742025-10-10 — best price $10.392025-11-16 — best price $10.392025-12-18 — best price $9.742026-01-19 — best price $12.992026-02-26 — best price $12.992026-03-26 — best price $12.992026-04-04 — best price $12.992026-05-28 — best price $12.992026-07-09 — best price $12.992026-07-25 — best price $12.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

17
achievements tracked
81.1%
earned "Flakey"
25.5%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam CloudFamily Sharing1 DLC

6 supported languages: English, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese, French, Italian

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2025-08-20 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)17335%17

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

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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