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Dark Fall: The Journal

Darkling Room · THQ Nordic · 2013-12-03

SteamGOG

Adventure

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: First person

Releases: Jun 19, 2002 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

This Myst-style horror-adventure game will bring fear into your heart. From the very beginning you are exposed to an overwhelming but invisible ghost presence – strange calls, footsteps, voices from nowhere. In order to help your brother and survive you will need to solve the mystery of this abandoned, haunted place. And remember!

Dark Fall: The Journal is a $4.99 Adventure game released in 2013, with an estimated 50,000 to 100,000 owners and a Mostly Positive review sentiment (79% of 312 reviews).

1
playing now
79%
positive of 312 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
62/100
critic score (2 outlets, IGDB)
78/100
IGDB user rating (15 ratings)
silver
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Verified
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$4.99
steam price (US)

1 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 18:00 UTC (census sample)

Dark Fall is a 2002 first-person psychological horror/adventure game developed and independently published for Microsoft Windows by Jonathan Boakes, under the XXv Productions label. After the independent release proved a success, with the game selling well and generating good word-of-mouth, The Adventure Company purchased the rights, releasing it worldwide in 2003 under the title Dark Fall - The Journal. The game was re-released twice in 2009. Firstly, by Boakes' own company, Darkling Room, in a limited "Pins & Needles" edition, and later by Iceberg Interactive, as part of their Adventures in Terror: British Horror Collection. The game was made available on Steam in December 2013.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 1 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 21 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~3/week).
  • · Review velocity up 40% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 24% of 28,763 Adventure games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-01

Estimated sales: 12k–25k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 312 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

GOG$4.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $0.74 at GreenManGaming (2014-12-31) · bundled 2×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $4.99 · on sale 74 of 133 observed days · $4.25 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
5520162026Week of 2016-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2017-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2017-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 3 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

202026-09-15 04:00 — 1 players2026-09-16 12:00 — 0 players2026-09-17 19:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 03:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 10:00 — 0 players2026-09-21 18:00 — 1 players2026-09-23 02:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 09:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 17:00 — 0 players2026-09-27 00:00 — 1 players2026-09-28 08:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 15:00 — 0 players2026-09-30 23:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 06:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 14:00 — 2 players2026-10-04 22:00 — 2 players2026-10-06 05:00 — 2 players2026-10-07 13:00 — 0 players2026-10-08 20:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 04:00 — 2 players2026-10-11 11:00 — 1 players2026-10-12 19:00 — 2 players2026-10-14 03:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 18:00 — 1 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$5.99$0.742015-01-012026-10-142015-01-01 — best price $0.742015-07-21 — best price $1.242015-12-01 — best price $4.992016-05-13 — best price $1.492016-10-29 — best price $1.002017-03-20 — best price $1.242017-07-17 — best price $4.992017-11-29 — best price $4.992018-04-30 — best price $1.242018-09-06 — best price $1.252018-12-10 — best price $1.242019-05-14 — best price $1.242019-09-13 — best price $1.242019-12-17 — best price $1.242020-05-11 — best price $1.242020-10-30 — best price $1.242021-02-15 — best price $4.992021-08-02 — best price $1.242021-11-24 — best price $1.242022-02-23 — best price $1.242022-07-05 — best price $1.252022-10-27 — best price $0.792022-12-27 — best price $1.242023-04-04 — best price $4.992023-07-18 — best price $4.992023-10-30 — best price $1.242024-01-06 — best price $4.992024-04-18 — best price $4.992024-08-10 — best price $4.992024-11-28 — best price $1.252025-01-20 — best price $4.192025-05-20 — best price $1.242025-09-08 — best price $1.092025-12-03 — best price $4.242026-03-19 — best price $1.242026-06-18 — best price $1.242026-09-01 — best price $1.252026-09-26 — best price $1.252026-10-14 — best price $4.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

52152026-06-01 — 38 pageviews2026-06-05 — 29 pageviews2026-06-09 — 49 pageviews2026-06-13 — 34 pageviews2026-06-17 — 27 pageviews2026-06-21 — 45 pageviews2026-06-25 — 49 pageviews2026-06-29 — 43 pageviews2026-07-03 — 21 pageviews2026-07-07 — 52 pageviews2026-07-11 — 40 pageviews2026-07-15 — 38 pageviews2026-07-19 — 36 pageviews2026-07-23 — 24 pageviews2026-07-27 — 28 pageviews2026-07-31 — 28 pageviews2026-08-04 — 29 pageviews2026-08-08 — 33 pageviews2026-08-12 — 26 pageviews2026-08-16 — 29 pageviews2026-08-20 — 19 pageviews2026-08-24 — 28 pageviews2026-08-28 — 41 pageviews2026-09-01 — 21 pageviews2026-09-05 — 39 pageviews2026-09-09 — 28 pageviews2026-09-13 — 35 pageviews2026-09-17 — 30 pageviews2026-09-21 — 41 pageviews2026-09-25 — 37 pageviews2026-09-29 — 25 pageviews2026-10-03 — 23 pageviews2026-10-07 — 25 pageviews2026-10-11 — 39 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerFamily Sharing

Player tags

HorrorPuzzleMysteryAdventureAtmosphericFirst-PersonSupernaturalPoint & Click

Census log

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

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