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CaseCracker2

BlackRobe · NPC Entertainment · 2024-05-16

Steam

IndieSimulationStrategy

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Text

Releases: May 17, 2024 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), May 17, 2024 (Mac)

Officer Jia has vanished, leaving a classified message pointing to the CaseCracker 2.0 system. Tear through suspects' alibis, look beyond the text, and extract hidden threads from seemingly unrelated intel. Will you find the ultimate truth, or a trap?

CaseCracker2 is an Indie, Simulation and Strategy game released in 2024, priced at $11.99, with an estimated owner base of 500,000 .. 1,000,000 and a review sentiment of Very Positive (91% of 828 reviews).

15
playing now
91%
positive of 828 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
500,000–1,000,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$11.99
steam price (US)

15 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 12:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 15 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 102 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~13/week).
  • · Review velocity down 14% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (287 reviews).
  • · Top 12% of 49,602 Indie games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-31

Estimated sales: 17k–37k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 828 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $7.79 at Steam (2026-05-13)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $11.99 · on sale 10 of 21 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
27227220242026Week of 2024-05-01: 272 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 70 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 43 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 7 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

3112026-09-15 13:00 — 7 players2026-09-16 21:00 — 5 players2026-09-18 05:00 — 14 players2026-09-19 12:00 — 31 players2026-09-20 20:00 — 10 players2026-09-22 03:00 — 15 players2026-09-23 11:00 — 16 players2026-09-24 18:00 — 7 players2026-09-26 02:00 — 10 players2026-09-27 09:00 — 26 players2026-09-28 17:00 — 15 players2026-09-30 00:00 — 5 players2026-10-01 08:00 — 6 players2026-10-02 15:00 — 19 players2026-10-03 23:00 — 6 players2026-10-05 07:00 — 17 players2026-10-06 15:00 — 28 players2026-10-07 22:00 — 2 players2026-10-09 06:00 — 10 players2026-10-10 13:00 — 25 players2026-10-11 21:00 — 3 players2026-10-13 04:00 — 10 players2026-10-14 12:00 — 15 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
2448May 2024Aug 2026May 2024 — avg 244 · peak 1,325Jun 2024 — avg 50 · peak 233Jul 2024 — avg 33 · peak 119Aug 2024 — avg 15 · peak 43Sep 2024 — avg 16 · peak 47Oct 2024 — avg 11 · peak 31Nov 2024 — avg 11 · peak 41Dec 2024 — avg 13 · peak 38Jan 2025 — avg 12 · peak 39Feb 2025 — avg 12 · peak 39Mar 2025 — avg 12 · peak 34Apr 2025 — avg 8 · peak 23May 2025 — avg 9 · peak 39Jun 2025 — avg 12 · peak 40Jul 2025 — avg 13 · peak 44Aug 2025 — avg 9 · peak 27Sep 2025 — avg 9 · peak 31Oct 2025 — avg 15 · peak 46Nov 2025 — avg 14 · peak 60Dec 2025 — avg 11 · peak 38Jan 2026 — avg 17 · peak 60Feb 2026 — avg 17 · peak 61Mar 2026 — avg 17 · peak 58Apr 2026 — avg 15 · peak 53May 2026 — avg 61 · peak 234Jun 2026 — avg 28 · peak 108Jul 2026 — avg 24 · peak 79Aug 2026 — avg 20 · peak 61
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$11.99$7.792024-05-172026-08-162024-05-17 — best price $10.792024-06-27 — best price $10.792024-07-14 — best price $10.792024-08-28 — best price $10.792024-10-28 — best price $10.192024-11-27 — best price $10.192024-12-05 — best price $10.192025-01-26 — best price $10.192025-03-13 — best price $9.592025-05-23 — best price $9.592025-06-27 — best price $8.992025-08-30 — best price $8.992025-09-29 — best price $8.992025-10-27 — best price $8.392025-12-03 — best price $8.992025-12-18 — best price $8.392026-01-12 — best price $8.392026-02-18 — best price $8.392026-03-19 — best price $8.392026-04-03 — best price $8.392026-04-22 — best price $11.992026-05-27 — best price $11.992026-07-09 — best price $11.992026-08-16 — best price $11.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

46
achievements tracked
86.7%
earned "Summary Report"
50.1%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam CloudFamily Sharing

2 supported languages: Simplified Chinese, English

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)24141%46

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

Player tags

2DDramaLogicTypingMysteryStrategyDetectiveWord GameSimulationStory Rich

Census log

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

Recent updates

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