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Daily Chthonicle: Editor's Edition cover art

Daily Chthonicle: Editor's Edition

Sinister Systems · Sometimes You · 2016-09-30

Steam

AdventureCasualIndieRPGSimulation

Modes: Single player

Releases: Sep 30, 2016 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Try on the role of a Supernatural Newspaper Agency boss and editor. The world it takes place in is a dark and haunted one, with ghosts, zombies, monsters and even shapeshifting murderers, pretending to be human after they have stolen their victims' bodies or infiltrated the humanity.

Daily Chthonicle: Editor's Edition is an Adventure, Casual, Indie, and RPG game released in 2016, priced at $0.67, with an estimated 200,000 to 500,000 owners and a Mostly Positive review sentiment (73% of 172 reviews).

0
playing now
73%
positive of 173 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
30/100
critic score (1 outlets, IGDB)
60/100
IGDB user rating (0 ratings)
bronze
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$0.67
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-15 05:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 12 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity up 100% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 31% of 29,024 Adventure games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-01

Estimated sales: 4.3k–10k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 173 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.20 at GreenManGaming (2019-04-02) · bundled 10×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $3.99 · on sale 9 of 17 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
5520162026Week of 2016-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2016-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-09-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2016-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2016-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2016-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2016-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2017-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

102026-09-15 15:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 23:00 — 0 players2026-09-18 06:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 14:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 21:00 — 0 players2026-09-22 05:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 13:00 — 1 players2026-09-24 20:00 — 0 players2026-09-26 04:00 — 0 players2026-09-27 11:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 19:00 — 0 players2026-09-30 02:00 — 0 players2026-10-01 10:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 17:00 — 0 players2026-10-04 01:00 — 0 players2026-10-05 09:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 16:00 — 0 players2026-10-08 00:00 — 0 players2026-10-09 07:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 15:00 — 1 players2026-10-11 23:00 — 0 players2026-10-13 06:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 14:00 — 0 players2026-10-15 05:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$3.99$0.202016-07-132026-08-242016-07-13 — best price $2.692016-09-26 — best price $2.992017-01-26 — best price $2.992017-04-24 — best price $3.992017-09-18 — best price $3.192017-12-21 — best price $1.392018-04-09 — best price $1.992018-06-21 — best price $2.392018-10-15 — best price $3.992019-01-04 — best price $3.992019-04-22 — best price $2.392019-08-29 — best price $1.492019-11-26 — best price $1.192020-01-22 — best price $1.192020-05-11 — best price $1.592020-08-28 — best price $1.792020-11-28 — best price $1.792021-03-01 — best price $1.992021-07-26 — best price $1.592021-11-24 — best price $1.592022-02-28 — best price $0.792022-06-23 — best price $0.792022-11-18 — best price $1.492023-01-09 — best price $0.792023-03-27 — best price $0.792023-06-29 — best price $0.792023-11-21 — best price $0.752024-02-26 — best price $0.752024-06-27 — best price $0.752024-11-27 — best price $0.752025-03-03 — best price $0.752025-06-27 — best price $0.752025-10-27 — best price $0.752026-03-30 — best price $0.752026-08-24 — best price $0.67
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

8
achievements tracked
3.3%
earned "Junior Reporter"
2.7%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam Trading CardsFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Player tags

RPGNoirIndieCasualHorrorAdventureSimulationLovecraftian

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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