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Closure cover art

Closure

Eyebrow Interactive · 2012-09-07

Steam

Indie

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Side view

Releases: Sep 07, 2012 (Linux), Sep 07, 2012 (Mac), Sep 07, 2012 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Mar 27, 2012 (PlayStation 3)

In the dark and mysterious world of Closure, only what you see exists. Manipulate lights to phase objects in and out of reality in this multiple-award-winning puzzle game. Play as a strange spider-like demon who explores the stories of three human characters through beautiful, eerie environments such as a decrepit factory, a murky...

Closure is an Indie game released in 2012, priced at $9.99, with an estimated 200,000 .. 500,000 owners and a Very Positive review sentiment (85% of 996 reviews).

0
playing now
85%
positive of 998 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
80/100
critic score (2 outlets, IGDB)
76/100
IGDB user rating (14 ratings)
10h
to beat · completionist 9h
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$9.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 13:00 UTC (census sample)

Closure is a puzzle-platform game developed by American programmer Tyler Glaiel and artist Jon Schubbe with music and sound by Chris Rhyne. Originally available as a Flash game on the website Newgrounds, a full version of the game was later released for Microsoft Windows, Macintosh, and PlayStation Network in Spring 2012. A Linux port was included in the Humble Indie Bundle 7 in 2012.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 8 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity up 33% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 11% of 49,562 Indie games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-31

Estimated sales: 40k–80k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 998 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.99 at Steam (2015-12-22) · bundled 3×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $9.99 · on sale 3 of 6 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
111120172026Week of 2017-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-06-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2017-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2017-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-10-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2017-11-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-07-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

102026-09-14 23:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 07:00 — 0 players2026-09-17 14:00 — 0 players2026-09-18 22:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 05:00 — 1 players2026-09-21 13:00 — 0 players2026-09-22 21:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 04:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 12:00 — 1 players2026-09-26 19:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 03:00 — 1 players2026-09-29 10:00 — 0 players2026-09-30 18:00 — 1 players2026-10-02 01:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 09:00 — 0 players2026-10-04 17:00 — 1 players2026-10-06 00:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 08:00 — 0 players2026-10-08 15:00 — 0 players2026-10-09 23:00 — 1 players2026-10-11 06:00 — 0 players2026-10-12 14:00 — 0 players2026-10-13 22:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 13:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$9.99$0.992015-01-012026-07-092015-01-01 — best price $3.392015-04-06 — best price $9.992015-06-22 — best price $9.992015-08-31 — best price $4.992015-11-02 — best price $9.992015-12-22 — best price $0.992016-02-12 — best price $9.992016-09-08 — best price $1.992016-11-01 — best price $9.992016-12-22 — best price $0.992017-07-05 — best price $9.992017-11-22 — best price $4.992018-01-04 — best price $9.992018-06-22 — best price $0.992018-11-01 — best price $9.992018-12-20 — best price $0.992019-07-09 — best price $9.992019-12-19 — best price $0.992020-07-09 — best price $9.992020-11-25 — best price $1.992021-01-05 — best price $9.992021-06-24 — best price $0.992021-11-01 — best price $9.992021-12-22 — best price $0.992022-03-29 — best price $9.992022-11-22 — best price $1.992023-01-05 — best price $9.992023-11-21 — best price $2.492024-01-04 — best price $9.992024-06-27 — best price $2.492024-11-27 — best price $2.492025-01-02 — best price $9.992025-06-26 — best price $2.492025-10-06 — best price $9.992026-03-19 — best price $2.492026-07-09 — best price $9.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

2342026-05-31 — 11 pageviews2026-06-04 — 5 pageviews2026-06-08 — 11 pageviews2026-06-12 — 13 pageviews2026-06-16 — 13 pageviews2026-06-20 — 13 pageviews2026-06-24 — 8 pageviews2026-06-28 — 14 pageviews2026-07-02 — 22 pageviews2026-07-06 — 14 pageviews2026-07-10 — 11 pageviews2026-07-14 — 16 pageviews2026-07-18 — 8 pageviews2026-07-22 — 13 pageviews2026-07-26 — 7 pageviews2026-07-30 — 12 pageviews2026-08-03 — 7 pageviews2026-08-07 — 13 pageviews2026-08-11 — 4 pageviews2026-08-15 — 14 pageviews2026-08-19 — 11 pageviews2026-08-23 — 14 pageviews2026-08-27 — 13 pageviews2026-08-31 — 8 pageviews2026-09-04 — 7 pageviews2026-09-08 — 15 pageviews2026-09-12 — 15 pageviews2026-09-16 — 8 pageviews2026-09-20 — 23 pageviews2026-09-24 — 8 pageviews2026-09-28 — 9 pageviews2026-10-02 — 18 pageviews2026-10-06 — 8 pageviews2026-10-10 — 10 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

8
achievements tracked
47.7%
earned "The River"
6.2%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam Trading CardsSteam CloudCommentary availableFamily Sharing

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
PS3 (PlayStation)9,35417%8
Steam (Steam)7,70711%8

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

Player tags

2DDarkIndieHorrorPuzzleSurrealPlatformerAtmosphericExperimentalSingleplayer

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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