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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!

Emerald City Confidential™ is an Adventure game released in 2009, priced at $9.99, with an estimated 20,000 to 50,000 owners and a Very Positive review sentiment (95% of 153 reviews).

1
playing now
95%
positive of 153 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
79/100
IGDB user rating (16 ratings)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$9.99
steam price (US)

1 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 23:00 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

Quiet
  • · 1 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 9 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 64% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 33% of 28,914 Adventure games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-01

Estimated sales: 6.1k–12k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 153 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 6 of 12 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
6620112026Week of 2011-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2011-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2011-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2011-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2011-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2011-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2012-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2012-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2012-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2012-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2013-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2013-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2013-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2013-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2013-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2014-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2014-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2014-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2014-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2014-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2015-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 2 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

202026-09-15 08:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 16:00 — 1 players2026-09-18 00:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 08:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 15:00 — 0 players2026-09-21 23:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 06:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 14:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 21:00 — 0 players2026-09-27 05:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 12:00 — 1 players2026-09-29 20:00 — 0 players2026-10-01 03:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 11:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 19:00 — 1 players2026-10-05 03:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 10:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 18:00 — 0 players2026-10-09 01:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 09:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 16:00 — 0 players2026-10-13 00:00 — 1 players2026-10-14 08:00 — 2 players2026-10-14 23:00 — 1 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
20Jul 2012Jan 2025Jul 2012 — avg 1 · peak 4Oct 2012 — avg 0 · peak 2Jan 2013 — avg 1 · peak 9Apr 2013 — avg 0 · peak 3Jul 2013 — avg 0 · peak 3Oct 2013 — avg 0 · peak 4Jan 2014 — avg 0 · peak 4Apr 2014 — avg 0 · peak 2Jul 2014 — avg 0 · peak 3Oct 2014 — avg 0 · peak 2Jan 2015 — avg 0 · peak 1Apr 2015 — avg 0 · peak 2Jul 2015 — avg 0 · peak 3Oct 2015 — avg 0 · peak 2Jan 2016 — avg 0 · peak 2Apr 2016 — avg 0 · peak 3Jul 2016 — avg 0 · peak 2Oct 2016 — avg 0 · peak 2Jan 2017 — avg 0 · peak 2Apr 2017 — avg 0 · peak 3Jul 2017 — avg 0 · peak 2Oct 2017 — avg 0 · peak 3Jan 2018 — avg 0 · peak 3Apr 2018 — avg 0 · peak 2Jul 2018 — avg 0 · peak 3Oct 2018 — avg 0 · peak 2Jan 2019 — avg 0 · peak 2Apr 2019 — avg 0 · peak 2Jul 2019 — avg 0 · peak 2Oct 2019 — avg 0 · peak 2Feb 2020 — avg 1 · peak 2Jul 2020 — avg 1 · peak 3Feb 2021 — avg 1 · peak 4Jan 2025 — avg 2 · peak 7

▲ +1 avg players vs prior month — Jan 2025

Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

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

4842026-05-29 — 15 pageviews2026-06-02 — 9 pageviews2026-06-06 — 19 pageviews2026-06-10 — 20 pageviews2026-06-14 — 12 pageviews2026-06-18 — 9 pageviews2026-06-22 — 10 pageviews2026-06-26 — 19 pageviews2026-06-30 — 13 pageviews2026-07-04 — 11 pageviews2026-07-08 — 44 pageviews2026-07-12 — 17 pageviews2026-07-16 — 12 pageviews2026-07-20 — 22 pageviews2026-07-24 — 11 pageviews2026-07-28 — 14 pageviews2026-08-01 — 23 pageviews2026-08-05 — 48 pageviews2026-08-09 — 17 pageviews2026-08-13 — 12 pageviews2026-08-17 — 16 pageviews2026-08-21 — 13 pageviews2026-08-25 — 17 pageviews2026-08-29 — 11 pageviews2026-09-02 — 4 pageviews2026-09-06 — 9 pageviews2026-09-10 — 8 pageviews2026-09-14 — 17 pageviews2026-09-18 — 9 pageviews2026-09-22 — 23 pageviews2026-09-26 — 13 pageviews2026-09-30 — 6 pageviews2026-10-04 — 21 pageviews2026-10-07 — 17 pageviews
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.

Players also track

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Similarity via IGDB.

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