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Epigraph cover art

Epigraph

Matthew Brown · 2024-02-19

Steam

Indie

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Text

Releases: Feb 19, 2024 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Epigraph is a short, challenging, language decipherment puzzle game.

87%
positive of 348 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$2.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 126 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~16/week).
  • · Review velocity up 37% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 30% of 29,030 Indie games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 7.0k–16k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 348 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.89 at Steam (2025-01-27)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $2.99 · on sale 6 of 12 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
181820242026Week of 2024-02-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-09-01: 2 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$2.99$0.892024-02-192026-07-092024-02-19 — best price $2.992024-04-08 — best price $2.692024-04-15 — best price $2.992024-06-27 — best price $2.392024-07-11 — best price $2.992024-08-05 — best price $2.092024-08-12 — best price $2.992024-10-07 — best price $1.792024-10-14 — best price $2.992024-11-27 — best price $1.492024-12-04 — best price $2.992024-12-19 — best price $1.492025-01-02 — best price $2.992025-01-27 — best price $0.892025-02-03 — best price $2.992025-03-13 — best price $0.892025-03-20 — best price $2.992025-04-07 — best price $0.892025-04-14 — best price $2.992025-05-29 — best price $0.892025-06-05 — best price $2.992025-06-27 — best price $0.892025-07-10 — best price $2.992025-09-01 — best price $0.892025-09-08 — best price $2.992025-09-29 — best price $0.892025-10-06 — best price $2.992025-11-03 — best price $0.892025-11-10 — best price $2.992025-12-18 — best price $0.892026-01-05 — best price $2.992026-03-19 — best price $0.892026-03-26 — best price $2.992026-05-28 — best price $0.892026-06-04 — best price $2.992026-06-25 — best price $0.892026-07-09 — best price $2.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

2
achievements tracked
24.4%
earned "Ventris"
14.5%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam CloudFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)16979%2

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

Player tags

3DIndieLogicPuzzleForeignMysteryAdventureDetectiveDifficultText-Based

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.