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Dry Drowning

Studio V · Leonardo Interactive · 2019-08-02

SteamGOG

AdventureIndie

Modes: Single player

Releases: Aug 02, 2019 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Feb 22, 2021 (Nintendo Switch)

Dry Drowning is a psychological investigative visual novel set in a futuristic dystopian city. Follow the story of Mordred Foley, unscrupulous private detective haunted by his dark past, and look into a series of macabre serial killings inspired by Greek mythology.

0
playing now
81%
positive of 517 reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
60/100
critic score (2 outlets, IGDB)
70/100
IGDB user rating (4 ratings)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$19.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 06:00 UTC (census sample)

Dry Drowning is a cyberpunk mystery visual novel developed by Studio V and published by VLG Publishing and WhisperGames for Microsoft Windows on August 2, 2019. It was released on the Nintendo Switch on February 22, 2021.

Health check

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  • · Top 40% of 11,312 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 13k–31k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 517 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

GameBillet$1.77-91%
IndieGala$1.99-90%
WinGameStore$1.99-90%
GamersGate$2.00-90%
lowest across shops (ITAD)$2.00-90%
GOG$3.99-80%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $1.00 at Fanatical (2020-11-06) · bundled 3×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $19.99 · on sale 54 of 92 observed days · $0.77 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Players online

102026-08-11 19:00 — 0 players2026-08-12 10:00 — 0 players2026-08-13 02:00 — 0 players2026-08-13 18:00 — 0 players2026-08-14 10:00 — 1 players2026-08-15 02:00 — 0 players2026-08-15 17:00 — 1 players2026-08-16 09:00 — 0 players2026-08-17 01:00 — 0 players2026-08-17 17:00 — 0 players2026-08-18 09:00 — 0 players2026-08-19 01:00 — 0 players2026-08-19 16:00 — 1 players2026-08-20 08:00 — 1 players2026-08-21 00:00 — 1 players2026-08-21 16:00 — 1 players2026-08-22 07:00 — 0 players2026-08-22 23:00 — 0 players2026-08-23 15:00 — 0 players2026-08-24 07:00 — 0 players2026-08-24 23:00 — 0 players2026-08-25 14:00 — 0 players2026-08-26 07:00 — 0 players2026-08-26 23:00 — 0 players2026-08-27 15:00 — 1 players2026-08-28 07:00 — 0 players2026-08-28 23:00 — 0 players2026-08-29 15:00 — 0 players2026-08-30 06:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$19.99$1.002019-08-022026-08-302019-08-02 — best price $16.992019-11-18 — best price $13.992020-01-20 — best price $19.992020-04-27 — best price $11.992020-08-18 — best price $19.992020-11-25 — best price $9.992021-02-01 — best price $19.992021-05-10 — best price $19.992021-08-16 — best price $19.992021-11-26 — best price $7.992022-02-14 — best price $7.992022-07-07 — best price $19.992022-11-23 — best price $9.992023-03-16 — best price $5.992023-07-04 — best price $19.992023-12-04 — best price $5.992024-02-14 — best price $5.382024-03-16 — best price $19.992024-04-18 — best price $5.992024-05-21 — best price $16.522024-06-25 — best price $19.992024-08-26 — best price $5.992024-10-26 — best price $19.992024-12-03 — best price $19.992025-02-03 — best price $19.992025-05-09 — best price $3.202025-08-15 — best price $3.992025-10-13 — best price $3.192025-11-16 — best price $19.992025-12-18 — best price $3.992026-03-05 — best price $3.992026-04-08 — best price $19.992026-05-18 — best price $19.992026-07-09 — best price $19.992026-08-10 — best price $1.992026-08-28 — best price $1.772026-08-30 — best price $1.77
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

2002026-06-01 — 6 pageviews2026-06-04 — 2 pageviews2026-06-07 — 3 pageviews2026-06-10 — 3 pageviews2026-06-13 — 2 pageviews2026-06-16 — 6 pageviews2026-06-19 — 2 pageviews2026-06-22 — 3 pageviews2026-06-25 — 8 pageviews2026-06-28 — 20 pageviews2026-07-01 — 6 pageviews2026-07-04 — 8 pageviews2026-07-07 — 4 pageviews2026-07-10 — 2 pageviews2026-07-13 — 6 pageviews2026-07-16 — 6 pageviews2026-07-19 — 7 pageviews2026-07-22 — 5 pageviews2026-07-25 — 1 pageviews2026-07-28 — 5 pageviews2026-07-31 — 5 pageviews2026-08-03 — 7 pageviews2026-08-06 — 8 pageviews2026-08-09 — 5 pageviews2026-08-12 — 4 pageviews2026-08-15 — 2 pageviews2026-08-18 — 5 pageviews2026-08-21 — 9 pageviews2026-08-24 — 3 pageviews2026-08-27 — 2 pageviews2026-08-29 — 7 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam CloudFamily Sharing2 DLC

6 supported languages: English, Italian, Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean, German

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)30616%20
Switch (Nintendo)30%0

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

NoirHorrorPuzzleSci-fiMysteryThrillerAdventureCyberpunkDetectiveFuturistic

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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