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Bureau of Contacts

MIROWIN · 2025-04-12

Steam

ActionAdventureIndie

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative · Perspectives: First person

Releases: Jun 20, 2024 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

"Bureau of Contacts" - ghost-hunting game for 1-4 players, in which you'll encounter 2 enemies at once - location itself and the ghosts with most human-like intelligence ever. So...look around and watch what you say!

79%
positive of 701 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
Unsupported
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$7.99
steam price (US)

We trained a neural network to kill... As an agent of the bureau, contact and investigate paranormal entities. The game cycle includes clear and sequential stages of investigation and exorcism, the success of which depends on effective teamwork and... your survival.(Storyline via IGDB)

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 107 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~13/week).
  • · Review velocity down 18% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 17% of 28,770 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 14k–32k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 701 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $2.39 at Steam (2026-10-01)via IsThereAnyDeal

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
959520242026Week of 2024-06-01: 95 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 22 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 74 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 31 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-09-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2026-09-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Completion

37
achievements tracked
59.8%
earned "Coworkers"
3.5%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerMulti-playerCo-opOnline Co-opSteam AchievementsSteam CloudFamily Sharing

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

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)1741%37

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

Player tags

PvECo-opIndieActionHorrorAdventureExplorationMultiplayerEarly AccessFirst-Person

Census log

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

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