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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.

0
playing now
73%
positive of 172 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam rating
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)
$0.67
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 04:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 58% of 11,450 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 4.3k–10k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 172 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

lowest across shops (ITAD)$0.67-83%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

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

12-month high $3.99 · on sale 10 of 20 observed days (census price snapshots)

Players online

102026-08-06 23:00 — 0 players2026-08-07 07:00 — 0 players2026-08-07 15:00 — 0 players2026-08-07 23:00 — 0 players2026-08-08 07:00 — 0 players2026-08-08 15:00 — 0 players2026-08-08 23:00 — 0 players2026-08-09 07:00 — 1 players2026-08-09 15:00 — 0 players2026-08-09 23:00 — 0 players2026-08-10 07:00 — 0 players2026-08-10 12:00 — 0 players2026-08-10 20:00 — 0 players2026-08-11 04:00 — 0 players2026-08-11 12:00 — 0 players2026-08-12 08:00 — 0 players2026-08-13 15:00 — 1 players2026-08-14 23:00 — 0 players2026-08-16 07:00 — 0 players2026-08-17 14:00 — 0 players2026-08-18 22:00 — 0 players2026-08-20 05:00 — 0 players2026-08-21 13:00 — 0 players2026-08-22 20:00 — 0 players2026-08-24 04:00 — 0 players2026-08-25 12:00 — 0 players2026-08-26 20:00 — 0 players2026-08-28 03:00 — 0 players2026-08-29 12:00 — 0 players2026-08-30 04:00 — 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).

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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