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Dark Past cover art

Dark Past

SURPRISED HOTDOG LIMITED · 2022-10-25

Steam

ActionIndieEarly Access

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative · Perspectives: First person

Releases: Oct 25, 2022 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Dark Past is based on psychological horror by paranormal activity occurring during your investigations. Play solo or up to 4 players to try and solve the mystery of what entity is left behind.

59%
positive of 70 reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
$5.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 25 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~3/week).
  • · Review velocity down 32% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 57% of 17,691 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 1.4k–3.1k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 70 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $2.39 at Steam (2024-07-15)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $5.99 · on sale 2 of 4 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
161620222025Week of 2022-10-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$13.99$2.392022-10-252026-01-052022-10-25 — best price $11.892022-11-22 — best price $6.992022-12-12 — best price $9.792022-12-23 — best price $9.792023-01-16 — best price $5.992023-02-27 — best price $5.992023-03-23 — best price $5.992023-04-10 — best price $5.992023-05-22 — best price $5.992023-07-13 — best price $5.992023-07-31 — best price $5.992023-09-13 — best price $5.992023-11-02 — best price $5.992023-11-28 — best price $5.992023-12-16 — best price $5.992024-01-04 — best price $5.992024-03-04 — best price $5.992024-03-21 — best price $5.992024-04-15 — best price $5.992024-05-27 — best price $5.992024-07-11 — best price $5.992024-07-22 — best price $5.992024-09-02 — best price $5.992024-11-04 — best price $5.992024-12-04 — best price $5.992025-01-02 — best price $5.992025-01-13 — best price $5.992025-02-24 — best price $5.992025-03-20 — best price $5.992025-04-07 — best price $5.992025-05-19 — best price $5.992025-07-10 — best price $5.992025-10-06 — best price $5.992026-01-05 — best price $5.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerMulti-playerCo-opOnline Co-opSteam AchievementsSteam CloudFamily Sharing

21 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Greek, Hungarian…

Player tags

DarkIndieDemonsHorrorMysteryThrillerDetectiveExplorationMultiplayerEarly Access

Census log

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

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