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EMPORIUM

Tom Kitchen · 2017-05-17

Steam

AdventureCasualIndie

Modes: Single player

Releases: Apr 21, 2017 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Emporium is a short interactive vignette. Exploring notions of escapism, loss and a fragmented sense of self in the wake of a personal tragedy.

EMPORIUM is an Adventure, Casual, and Indie game released in 2017, priced at $1.99, with an estimated 20,000 to 50,000 owners and Mostly Positive (70% of 141 reviews).

0
playing now
70%
positive of 141 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
60/100
IGDB user rating (1 ratings)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$1.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 08:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 9 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 18% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 34% of 28,763 Adventure games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-01

Estimated sales: 3.5k–8.5k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 141 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.99 at Steam (2017-06-22)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $1.99 · on sale 1 of 2 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
161620172026Week of 2017-05-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2017-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-06-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2017-06-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2017-07-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2017-07-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2017-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2017-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2017-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2017-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2017-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2018-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-07-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

002026-09-15 08:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 17:00 — 0 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 13:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 20:00 — 0 players2026-10-01 04:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 11:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 19:00 — 0 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 — 0 players2026-10-14 08:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$1.99$0.992017-04-272026-07-092017-04-27 — best price $1.992017-05-18 — best price $1.992017-05-27 — best price $1.002017-06-03 — best price $1.992017-06-22 — best price $0.992017-07-05 — best price $1.992017-09-04 — best price $0.992017-09-11 — best price $1.992017-10-26 — best price $0.992017-11-01 — best price $1.992017-11-22 — best price $0.992017-11-28 — best price $1.992017-12-21 — best price $0.992018-01-04 — best price $1.992018-02-15 — best price $0.992018-02-19 — best price $1.992018-06-21 — best price $0.992018-07-05 — best price $1.992018-10-30 — best price $0.992018-11-01 — best price $1.992018-11-21 — best price $0.992018-11-27 — best price $1.992018-12-20 — best price $0.992019-01-03 — best price $1.992023-12-21 — best price $0.992024-01-04 — best price $1.992024-12-04 — best price $0.992024-12-20 — best price $0.992025-01-02 — best price $1.992025-03-13 — best price $0.992025-03-20 — best price $1.992026-06-25 — best price $0.992026-07-09 — best price $1.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

5
achievements tracked
33.3%
earned "About a Boy"
16.6%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam Trading CardsPartial Controller SupportFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Player tags

IndieCasualHorrorMysterySurrealAdventureIsometricMinimalistStory RichAtmospheric

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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