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Emerald City Confidential™

Wadjet Eye Games · Electronic Arts · 2009-08-12

Steam

Adventure

Modes: Single player

Releases: Jul 03, 2009 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

<p>Work with the world's most cunning detective in the shadowy underbelly of the Emerald City of Oz! As Petra, you'll be lured deep into mysteries involving new foes and familiar faces; Scarecrow, Lion, and Toto included. This is Oz as you've never seen it before!

0
playing now
95%
positive of 152 reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
79/100
IGDB user rating (16 ratings)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$9.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 13:00 UTC (census sample)

Emerald City Confidential is a 2009 computer adventure game conceived by Dave Gilbert, developed by Wadjet Eye Games, and published through PlayFirst.

Health check

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  • · Top 60% of 11,450 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 6.1k–12k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 152 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $1.99 at Steam (2024-12-19)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $9.99 · on sale 7 of 14 observed days (census price snapshots)

Players online

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Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$23.74$1.992015-01-012026-07-092015-01-01 — best price $9.992015-01-23 — best price $12.952015-03-19 — best price $13.492015-04-04 — best price $15.952015-04-17 — best price $15.952015-04-21 — best price $15.952015-04-29 — best price $15.952015-05-01 — best price $15.952015-05-18 — best price $16.492015-06-03 — best price $15.952015-11-25 — best price $4.982015-12-04 — best price $7.952017-03-21 — best price $9.952023-07-18 — best price $19.952024-05-19 — best price $19.952024-12-21 — best price $7.982025-01-02 — best price $9.992025-02-07 — best price $6.992025-03-13 — best price $1.992025-05-01 — best price $1.992025-06-20 — best price $1.992025-09-29 — best price $1.992025-11-20 — best price $1.992025-12-18 — best price $1.992026-01-27 — best price $1.992026-03-12 — best price $1.992026-04-23 — best price $1.992026-06-18 — best price $1.992026-07-09 — best price $9.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

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Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Player tags

2DNoirFantasyAdventureDetectivePoint & ClickFemale Protagonist

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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