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Brink of Consciousness: The Lonely Hearts Murders cover art

Brink of Consciousness: The Lonely Hearts Murders

MagicIndie · Plug In Digital · 2014-11-24

Steam

Casual

Modes: Single player

Releases: Oct 01, 2014 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

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Brink of Consciousness: The Lonely Hearts Murders is a Casual game released in 2014, priced at $9.99, with an estimated 50,000 .. 100,000 owners and a Very Positive review sentiment (86% of 169 reviews).

0
playing now
86%
positive of 169 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
60/100
IGDB user rating (1 ratings)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$9.99
steam price (US)

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

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 7 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 22% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 24% of 29,032 Casual games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 4.2k–10k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 169 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.79 at Fanatical (2024-12-05) · bundled 3×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $9.99 · on sale 31 of 37 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
3320142026Week of 2014-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2014-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2015-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2016-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

302026-09-15 04:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 12:00 — 0 players2026-09-17 20:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 03:00 — 1 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 — 0 players2026-09-27 01:00 — 1 players2026-09-28 08:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 16:00 — 0 players2026-09-30 23:00 — 1 players2026-10-02 07:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 14:00 — 1 players2026-10-04 22:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 06:00 — 1 players2026-10-07 13:00 — 0 players2026-10-08 21:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 04:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 12:00 — 1 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

$9.99$0.792015-01-012026-08-172015-01-01 — best price $1.752015-10-27 — best price $2.402016-03-24 — best price $3.392016-09-28 — best price $6.992016-12-15 — best price $1.752017-06-12 — best price $6.992017-11-29 — best price $9.992018-07-23 — best price $2.452019-02-25 — best price $6.992019-11-11 — best price $6.992020-01-24 — best price $6.992020-06-25 — best price $3.392020-09-14 — best price $3.392020-11-29 — best price $7.342021-02-11 — best price $3.392021-04-15 — best price $8.992021-06-18 — best price $7.342021-08-10 — best price $8.992021-11-16 — best price $7.342022-01-05 — best price $9.992022-02-24 — best price $7.342022-05-01 — best price $7.342022-06-20 — best price $2.092022-08-30 — best price $7.342023-03-01 — best price $7.862023-06-23 — best price $2.092023-10-30 — best price $9.992024-02-26 — best price $2.492024-07-01 — best price $1.592024-11-01 — best price $1.292025-02-01 — best price $9.992025-07-01 — best price $0.792025-11-21 — best price $0.792026-03-24 — best price $7.862026-07-27 — best price $8.012026-08-17 — best price $8.01
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerFamily Sharing

8 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Dutch, Japanese, Polish

Player tags

CasualPuzzleHidden Object

Census log

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

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