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Despair

AGC · 2015-05-12

Steam

ActionAdventureIndie

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: First person

Releases: May 12, 2015 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

The main character wakes up in a tunnel of the subway and tries to find out that happened to it and other passengers of the train. To understand that after all it happened to the gone passengers, the player should investigate strange catacombs being deeply underground.

Despair is an Action, Adventure, and Indie game released in 2015, priced at $0.99, with an owner estimate of 500,000 .. 1,000,000 and a Mostly Negative review sentiment (34% of 1825 reviews).

1
playing now
34%
positive of 1.8k reviews
Mostly Negative
steam's rating (official)
500,000–1,000,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
17/100
IGDB user rating (5 ratings)
bronze
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$0.99
steam price (US)

1 players in-game as of 2026-10-15 04:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 1 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 13 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity up 8% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 11% of 28,080 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 46k–109k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 1,821 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.09 at Steam (2015-06-11)via IsThereAnyDeal

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
121220162026Week of 2016-08-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2016-08-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2016-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-09-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2016-10-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2016-10-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2016-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-11-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2016-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-12-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2017-01-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2017-01-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2017-02-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2017-02-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2017-03-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2017-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-04-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2017-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2017-06-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2017-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2017-07-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2017-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2017-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2017-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-09-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2017-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2017-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-11-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2017-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-01-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2018-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2018-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-09-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2018-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-11-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2018-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2019-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2019-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-10-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2019-11-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2019-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

102026-09-16 05:00 — 0 players2026-09-17 13:00 — 0 players2026-09-18 20:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 04:00 — 1 players2026-09-21 12:00 — 0 players2026-09-22 19:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 03:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 10:00 — 0 players2026-09-26 18:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 01:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 09:00 — 0 players2026-09-30 16:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 00:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 07:00 — 0 players2026-10-04 15:00 — 0 players2026-10-05 23:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 06:00 — 1 players2026-10-08 14:00 — 0 players2026-10-09 21:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 05:00 — 0 players2026-10-12 13:00 — 0 players2026-10-13 20:00 — 0 players2026-10-15 04:00 — 1 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$2.99$0.092015-05-132021-01-052015-05-13 — best price $2.992015-05-21 — best price $0.992015-05-28 — best price $1.992015-06-22 — best price $1.992015-07-27 — best price $1.992016-01-04 — best price $1.992016-02-14 — best price $0.412016-07-18 — best price $0.542016-09-19 — best price $1.992016-11-01 — best price $1.992016-11-29 — best price $1.992017-01-02 — best price $0.992017-01-16 — best price $0.992017-03-20 — best price $0.992017-07-05 — best price $0.992017-11-28 — best price $0.992017-12-11 — best price $0.992018-01-04 — best price $0.992018-07-05 — best price $0.992018-11-05 — best price $0.992018-11-27 — best price $0.992019-01-03 — best price $0.992019-03-25 — best price $0.992019-05-27 — best price $0.992020-02-17 — best price $0.992020-10-12 — best price $0.992020-11-02 — best price $0.992020-12-01 — best price $0.992021-01-05 — best price $0.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam Trading CardsFamily Sharing

2 supported languages: English, Russian

Player tags

IndieShortActionHorrorAdventureAtmosphericFirst-PersonSingleplayerWalking Simulator

Census log

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

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