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City of Broken Dreamers: Book One cover art

City of Broken Dreamers: Book One

PhillyGames · 2020-08-07

Steam

Indie

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: First person, Text

Releases: Aug 31, 2021 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

City of Broken Dreamers is a mature adults only cyberpunk visual novel. In the game you will find a choice based visually erotic and exciting adventure.

91%
positive of 1.6k reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$9.99
steam price (US)

Los Angeles, 2042. A city ruled by corporations. A city ruled by the elite. A city that exemplifies the best and worst of the American Dream. Millions live their lives in almost blissful ignorance of the excesses of the rich, or the degradation of the poor. Executives hold more power than politicians, the police hold less power than corporate mercenaries. You are one of those mercenaries, one of the best, and elite tier called Ghosts... but you haven't taken a job in months. That is about to change. Elsewhere in the city, a young girl is about to become the center of a conflict that could tear(Storyline via IGDB)

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 56 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~7/week).
  • · Review velocity up 4% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (209 reviews).
  • · Top 9% of 45,049 Indie games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 33k–73k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 1,631 total reviews — how this is computed.

Review momentum

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Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Completion

36
achievements tracked
58.5%
earned "JUSTSAYNO"
8.7%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFamily Sharing1 DLC

1 supported languages: English

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2020-08-07 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)9853%36

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

Census log

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

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