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Closer To Home cover art

Closer To Home

itamu · 2022-10-19

Steam

CasualIndie

Modes: Single player

Releases: Oct 20, 2022 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Closer To Home is a dialogue-focused surreal horror exploration game. Navigate connections between reality and dreams, look for weird stuff and make friends. There is no reason to fear death.

98%
positive of 64 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
$14.99
steam price (US)

Closer To Home is a dialogue-focused surreal horror exploration game. Navigate connections between reality and dreams, look for weird stuff and make friends. There is no reason to fear death.(Storyline via IGDB)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 8 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 11% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 55% of 14,803 Casual games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 1.3k–2.9k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 64 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.99 at Steam (2025-03-13)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $14.99 · on sale 6 of 7 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
101020222026Week of 2022-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$14.99$0.992022-10-202026-08-262022-10-20 — best price $7.992022-10-26 — best price $9.992022-12-24 — best price $7.992023-01-06 — best price $9.992023-03-16 — best price $6.992023-03-23 — best price $9.992023-06-29 — best price $5.992023-07-13 — best price $9.992023-10-26 — best price $6.992023-11-02 — best price $9.992023-11-21 — best price $7.992023-11-28 — best price $9.992023-12-21 — best price $7.992024-01-04 — best price $9.992024-10-28 — best price $6.992024-11-04 — best price $9.992024-11-27 — best price $5.992024-12-04 — best price $9.992024-12-20 — best price $4.992025-01-02 — best price $9.992025-03-13 — best price $0.992025-03-20 — best price $9.992025-06-26 — best price $3.992025-07-10 — best price $9.992025-10-27 — best price $4.992025-11-03 — best price $9.992025-12-18 — best price $6.992026-01-05 — best price $9.992026-03-19 — best price $7.992026-03-26 — best price $9.992026-08-26 — best price $14.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsmacOSSingle-playerFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Player tags

2DDarkCasualComedyHorrorPuzzleStylizedTop-DownNonlinearStory Rich

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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