The Game Census
Despair cover art

Despair

AGC · 2015-05-12

Steam

ActionAdventureIndie

Modes: Single player

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.

0
playing now
34%
positive of 1.8k reviews
Mostly Negative
steam rating
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)

0 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 18:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 27% of 10,936 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 46k–110k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 1,825 total reviews — how this is computed.

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

Players online

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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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