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Burning Daylight

Burning Daylight Team · 2019-04-19

Steam

AdventureFree To PlayIndie

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Side view

Releases: Apr 19, 2019 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Waking up naked in a slaughterhouse, you must escape and travel through a dystopian world to uncover the truth of your origins. Burning Daylight is a sci-fi adventure game, set in a dystopian future with light puzzle elements and environmental storytelling.

89%
positive of 3.0k reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
66/100
IGDB user rating (5 ratings)
1h
to beat · rushed 1h · completionist 1h
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Free
steam price (US)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 19 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity down 50% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (791 reviews).
  • · Top 8% of 24,793 Adventure games in the census by review count.

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
71171120192026Week of 2019-04-01: 711 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 80 negativeWeek of 2019-05-01: 385 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 51 negativeWeek of 2019-06-01: 168 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 32 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 97 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 16 negativeWeek of 2019-08-01: 55 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2019-09-01: 55 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2019-10-01: 62 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2019-11-01: 104 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2019-12-01: 70 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 53 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2020-02-01: 51 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2020-03-01: 69 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 92 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 68 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 61 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 54 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 33 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 37 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 32 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 28 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 39 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-10-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerFamily Sharing

Where its players are

Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.

Player tags

GoreIndieShortHorrorNuditySci-fiViolentAdventureCyberpunkDystopian

Census log

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

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