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Crisis: The Third Way

DUALITY · 2025-12-20

Steam

AdventureCasualIndieFree To Play

Modes: Single player

Releases: Dec 20, 2025 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

"Crisis: The Third Way" is a fantastic visual novel set in a world struggling to recover from a devastating financial crisis that led to World War III.

91%
positive of 3.6k reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
7h
to beat · rushed 5h · completionist 16h
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Free
steam price (US)

Health check

Healthy
  • · 644 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~81/week).
  • · Review velocity up 12% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 13% of 13,408 Adventure games in the census by review count.

Review momentum

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16616620252026Week of 2025-12-20: 64 positiveWeek of 2025-12-20: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-12-27: 39 positiveWeek of 2025-12-27: 5 negativeWeek of 2026-01-03: 73 positiveWeek of 2026-01-03: 7 negativeWeek of 2026-01-10: 60 positiveWeek of 2026-01-10: 12 negativeWeek of 2026-01-17: 80 positiveWeek of 2026-01-17: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-01-24: 113 positiveWeek of 2026-01-24: 6 negativeWeek of 2026-01-31: 161 positiveWeek of 2026-01-31: 11 negativeWeek of 2026-02-07: 120 positiveWeek of 2026-02-07: 9 negativeWeek of 2026-02-14: 146 positiveWeek of 2026-02-14: 9 negativeWeek of 2026-02-21: 166 positiveWeek of 2026-02-21: 11 negativeWeek of 2026-02-28: 106 positiveWeek of 2026-02-28: 15 negativeWeek of 2026-03-07: 123 positiveWeek of 2026-03-07: 12 negativeWeek of 2026-03-14: 122 positiveWeek of 2026-03-14: 14 negativeWeek of 2026-03-21: 96 positiveWeek of 2026-03-21: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-03-28: 107 positiveWeek of 2026-03-28: 14 negativeWeek of 2026-04-04: 133 positiveWeek of 2026-04-04: 18 negativeWeek of 2026-04-11: 147 positiveWeek of 2026-04-11: 10 negativeWeek of 2026-04-18: 151 positiveWeek of 2026-04-18: 10 negativeWeek of 2026-04-25: 95 positiveWeek of 2026-04-25: 14 negativeWeek of 2026-05-02: 69 positiveWeek of 2026-05-02: 7 negativeWeek of 2026-05-09: 84 positiveWeek of 2026-05-09: 12 negativeWeek of 2026-05-16: 66 positiveWeek of 2026-05-16: 9 negativeWeek of 2026-05-23: 77 positiveWeek of 2026-05-23: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-05-30: 82 positiveWeek of 2026-05-30: 7 negativeWeek of 2026-06-06: 61 positiveWeek of 2026-06-06: 9 negativeWeek of 2026-06-13: 61 positiveWeek of 2026-06-13: 9 negativeWeek of 2026-06-20: 52 positiveWeek of 2026-06-20: 6 negativeWeek of 2026-06-27: 56 positiveWeek of 2026-06-27: 6 negativeWeek of 2026-07-04: 65 positiveWeek of 2026-07-04: 6 negativeWeek of 2026-07-11: 73 positiveWeek of 2026-07-11: 11 negativeWeek of 2026-07-18: 77 positiveWeek of 2026-07-18: 8 negativeWeek of 2026-07-25: 82 positiveWeek of 2026-07-25: 9 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 75 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2026-08-08: 84 positiveWeek of 2026-08-08: 8 negativeWeek of 2026-08-15: 77 positiveWeek of 2026-08-15: 8 negativeWeek of 2026-08-22: 62 positiveWeek of 2026-08-22: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-08-29: 50 positiveWeek of 2026-08-29: 8 negativeWeek of 2026-09-05: 13 positiveWeek of 2026-09-05: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerCustom Volume ControlsMouse Only OptionPlayable without Timed InputSave AnytimeFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: Russian

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