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Constance cover art

Constance

Blue Backpack · 2025-11-24

SteamPlayStation Store

ActionAdventureIndie

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Side view

Releases: Jul 30, 2026 (Nintendo Switch 2), Nov 24, 2025 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), May 01, 2026 (Nintendo Switch), May 01, 2026 (PlayStation 5), May 01, 2026 (Xbox Series X|S)

Constance is a 2D hand-drawn action adventure featuring a paintbrush-wielding artist, striving to escape from a colorful but decaying inner-world, created by her declining mental health.

Constance is a 2025 Action, Adventure, Indie game priced at $19.99, with a Very Positive review sentiment (83% of 3009 reviews).— census verdict as of 2026-09-20

83%
positive of 3.0k reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
83/100
critic score (2 outlets, IGDB)
70/100
IGDB user rating (7 ratings)
6
Nexus mods (462 downloads)
4.12★
PlayStation Store rating (281 ratings)
8h
to beat · rushed 8h · completionist 14h
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Verified
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$19.99
steam price (US)
Constance is a metroidvania action video game developed and published by German studio btf Games together with ByteRockers' Games and Parco Games. It was first released for Windows on Steam on November 24, 2025. Then it received ports for Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X/S on May 1, 2026, and then later for Nintendo Switch 2 on July 30, 2026.

Trailer

Constance trailer thumbnail

Constance Gameplay Trailer - Future Games Show Summer Showcase 2025

≈1,000,000 YouTube results for this game's trailer search

Health check

Healthy
  • · 256 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~32/week).
  • · Review velocity up 17% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (864 reviews).
  • · Top 9% of 27,908 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 60k–135k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 3,009 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $13.39 at Steam (2026-07-28)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $19.99 · on sale 7 of 15 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
71771720252026Week of 2025-11-24: 717 positiveWeek of 2025-11-24: 147 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 246 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 64 negativeWeek of 2025-12-08: 126 positiveWeek of 2025-12-08: 26 negativeWeek of 2025-12-15: 59 positiveWeek of 2025-12-15: 23 negativeWeek of 2025-12-22: 54 positiveWeek of 2025-12-22: 12 negativeWeek of 2025-12-29: 78 positiveWeek of 2025-12-29: 15 negativeWeek of 2026-01-05: 76 positiveWeek of 2026-01-05: 19 negativeWeek of 2026-01-12: 52 positiveWeek of 2026-01-12: 13 negativeWeek of 2026-01-19: 40 positiveWeek of 2026-01-19: 12 negativeWeek of 2026-01-26: 33 positiveWeek of 2026-01-26: 7 negativeWeek of 2026-02-02: 38 positiveWeek of 2026-02-02: 9 negativeWeek of 2026-02-09: 29 positiveWeek of 2026-02-09: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-16: 21 positiveWeek of 2026-02-16: 5 negativeWeek of 2026-02-23: 18 positiveWeek of 2026-02-23: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-03-02: 21 positiveWeek of 2026-03-02: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-03-09: 17 positiveWeek of 2026-03-09: 5 negativeWeek of 2026-03-16: 68 positiveWeek of 2026-03-16: 11 negativeWeek of 2026-03-23: 46 positiveWeek of 2026-03-23: 9 negativeWeek of 2026-03-30: 33 positiveWeek of 2026-03-30: 9 negativeWeek of 2026-04-06: 30 positiveWeek of 2026-04-06: 10 negativeWeek of 2026-04-13: 27 positiveWeek of 2026-04-13: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-04-20: 17 positiveWeek of 2026-04-20: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-04-27: 32 positiveWeek of 2026-04-27: 6 negativeWeek of 2026-05-04: 23 positiveWeek of 2026-05-04: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-05-11: 24 positiveWeek of 2026-05-11: 7 negativeWeek of 2026-05-18: 22 positiveWeek of 2026-05-18: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-05-25: 12 positiveWeek of 2026-05-25: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-06-08: 31 positiveWeek of 2026-06-08: 5 negativeWeek of 2026-06-15: 22 positiveWeek of 2026-06-15: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-22: 16 positiveWeek of 2026-06-22: 9 negativeWeek of 2026-06-29: 28 positiveWeek of 2026-06-29: 7 negativeWeek of 2026-07-06: 23 positiveWeek of 2026-07-06: 6 negativeWeek of 2026-07-13: 19 positiveWeek of 2026-07-13: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-07-20: 16 positiveWeek of 2026-07-20: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-07-27: 28 positiveWeek of 2026-07-27: 5 negativeWeek of 2026-08-03: 54 positiveWeek of 2026-08-03: 15 negativeWeek of 2026-08-10: 38 positiveWeek of 2026-08-10: 5 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$19.99$13.392025-11-242026-08-112025-11-24 — best price $17.992025-12-01 — best price $19.992026-01-01 — best price $15.992026-01-08 — best price $19.992026-03-16 — best price $15.992026-03-19 — best price $15.992026-03-26 — best price $19.992026-04-25 — best price $15.992026-05-02 — best price $19.992026-06-03 — best price $15.992026-06-10 — best price $19.992026-06-25 — best price $15.992026-07-09 — best price $19.992026-07-28 — best price $13.392026-08-11 — best price $19.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

296112026-05-31 — 26 pageviews2026-06-04 — 44 pageviews2026-06-08 — 23 pageviews2026-06-12 — 35 pageviews2026-06-16 — 18 pageviews2026-06-20 — 18 pageviews2026-06-24 — 20 pageviews2026-06-28 — 26 pageviews2026-07-02 — 18 pageviews2026-07-06 — 296 pageviews2026-07-10 — 24 pageviews2026-07-14 — 24 pageviews2026-07-18 — 13 pageviews2026-07-22 — 28 pageviews2026-07-26 — 54 pageviews2026-07-30 — 90 pageviews2026-08-03 — 53 pageviews2026-08-07 — 29 pageviews2026-08-11 — 34 pageviews2026-08-15 — 34 pageviews2026-08-19 — 32 pageviews2026-08-23 — 28 pageviews2026-08-27 — 19 pageviews2026-08-31 — 24 pageviews2026-09-04 — 25 pageviews2026-09-08 — 16 pageviews2026-09-12 — 18 pageviews2026-09-16 — 14 pageviews2026-09-20 — 36 pageviews2026-09-24 — 25 pageviews2026-09-28 — 27 pageviews2026-10-02 — 22 pageviews2026-10-06 — 12 pageviews2026-10-10 — 12 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

33
achievements tracked
90.3%
earned "Inspired"
16.2%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportCamera ComfortCustom Volume ControlsAdjustable DifficultyGamepad RecommendedKeyboard Only OptionPlayable without Timed InputDualShock Controller Support1 DLC

16 supported languages: English, German, Portuguese - Brazil, Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean, French, Italian, Spanish - Spain, Polish, Russian, Thai…

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2025-11-24 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)1,1267%33
PS5 (PlayStation)26317%33
Switch (Nintendo)500%0
Xbox Series (Xbox)3711%33
Switch (Nintendo)90%0
Steam (Steam)10%21

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

Where its players are

Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.

Census log

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

Recent updates

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