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Bystander

Egor Magurin · Indovers Studio · 2017-12-15

Steam

ActionAdventureIndieSimulation

Modes: Single player

Releases: Nov 28, 2017 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Bystander is an opportunity to become an agent for tracking the network during totalitarianism. Your task is to search among other people's correspondence on the network those that contradict the current laws, copies of which you will receive by fax.

Bystander is an Action, Adventure, Indie, and Simulation game released in 2017, priced at $0.62, with an estimated owner base of 0 .. 20,000 and a Mostly Negative review sentiment (24% of 42 reviews).— census verdict as of 2026-10-07

24%
positive of 42 reviews
Mostly Negative
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
−79% · $0.62
was $2.99
steam price (US) · on sale

Health check

Quiet
  • · 10 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 23% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 56% of 27,656 Action games in the census by review count.

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
121220172025Week of 2017-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2018-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2018-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxSingle-playerFamily Sharing

2 supported languages: English, Russian

Census log

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

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