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Choice of Alexandria cover art

Choice of Alexandria

Choice of Games · 2016-06-10

Steam

AdventureIndieRPG

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Text

Releases: Jun 10, 2016 (Linux), Jun 10, 2016 (Mac), Jun 10, 2016 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Can your steam-powered inventions save the ancient Library of Alexandria? Will you sacrifice the library to protect the city? Or the future king instead?

95%
positive of 79 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
70/100
IGDB user rating (2 ratings)
$3.99
steam price (US)

The year is 245 BCE; you're a heroic polymath librarian, invited to Alexandria to tutor prince Ptolemy IV. The real Ptolemy IV fell under the sway of his evil advisor Sosibius, and brought the empire to ruin - but perhaps under your tutelage, things will turn out differently. Or disregard your responsibilities to focus on inventions instead! With the help of Archimedes and Euclid, you can discover the steam engine, the germ theory of disease, or even robotic automata, thousands of years ahead of schedule. Will you deplete the libraries of other cities to enrich your own? Achieve popularity f(Storyline via IGDB)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 7 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 22% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 60% of 16,146 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 2.0k–4.7k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 79 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $1.97 at Steam (2016-06-10)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $3.99 · on sale 4 of 8 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
151520162026Week of 2016-06-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2016-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2016-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-09-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2016-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2017-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$3.99$1.972016-06-102026-07-092016-06-10 — best price $1.972016-07-04 — best price $2.992016-12-22 — best price $1.972017-07-05 — best price $2.992017-11-22 — best price $1.972018-01-04 — best price $2.992018-06-21 — best price $1.972018-11-01 — best price $2.992018-12-21 — best price $1.972019-02-11 — best price $2.992019-10-11 — best price $1.972019-12-03 — best price $2.992020-01-23 — best price $1.972020-07-09 — best price $2.992021-02-11 — best price $1.972021-07-08 — best price $2.992021-12-22 — best price $1.972022-07-07 — best price $2.992022-12-22 — best price $1.972023-03-16 — best price $2.992023-07-13 — best price $3.992023-12-21 — best price $2.992024-03-21 — best price $3.992024-11-27 — best price $2.992025-01-02 — best price $3.992025-06-26 — best price $2.992025-10-06 — best price $3.992026-03-19 — best price $2.992026-07-09 — best price $3.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxSingle-playerSteam AchievementsCaptions availableSteam CloudFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Player tags

RPGIndieAdventureText-BasedInteractive FictionChoose Your Own Adventure

Census log

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

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