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Eternal Threads

Cosmonaut Studios · Secret Mode · 2022-05-19

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AdventureIndie

Modes: Single player

Releases: May 19, 2022 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), May 23, 2024 (PlayStation 4), May 23, 2024 (Xbox One), May 23, 2024 (PlayStation 5), May 23, 2024 (Nintendo Switch), May 23, 2024 (Xbox Series X|S)

Eternal Threads is a single-player, first-person story-driven puzzle game of time manipulation, choice and consequence.

8
playing now
87%
positive of 890 reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
63/100
critic score (3 outlets, IGDB)
63/100
IGDB user rating (9 ratings)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$19.99
steam price (US)

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

You are Operator 43, who works for the newly created Second Chance project, whose mission is to restore the many mistakes of the past. As an operative tasked with fixing corruption in the timestream, you have been sent to the North of England in May 2015, where six people died in a house fire. Prohibited from simply stopping the fire, you must instead manipulate the choices made by the housemates in the week leading up to it so that they all survive the event. From the outset, you have free and complete reign to explore the seven day timeline before the fire. You can watch and alter the signi(Storyline via IGDB)

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 8 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 73 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~9/week).
  • · Review velocity up 35% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 32% of 11,319 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 18k–40k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 890 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

GameBillet$3.66-82%
Gamesplanet$3.96-80%
Humble Store$3.99-80%
Steam$3.99-80%
lowest across shops (ITAD)$17.90-10%
Microsoft Store$19.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $2.17 at GameBillet (2025-11-24) · bundled 3×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $19.99 · on sale 110 of 157 observed days · $17.82 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
666620222026Week of 2022-05-01: 66 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 47 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 46 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

1102026-08-11 22:00 — 3 players2026-08-12 13:00 — 2 players2026-08-13 05:00 — 0 players2026-08-13 21:00 — 1 players2026-08-14 11:00 — 1 players2026-08-15 03:00 — 3 players2026-08-15 18:00 — 1 players2026-08-16 10:00 — 1 players2026-08-17 02:00 — 3 players2026-08-17 18:00 — 3 players2026-08-18 10:00 — 1 players2026-08-19 02:00 — 1 players2026-08-19 17:00 — 4 players2026-08-20 09:00 — 0 players2026-08-21 01:00 — 0 players2026-08-21 17:00 — 2 players2026-08-22 08:00 — 1 players2026-08-23 00:00 — 8 players2026-08-23 16:00 — 1 players2026-08-24 08:00 — 4 players2026-08-25 00:00 — 7 players2026-08-25 16:00 — 10 players2026-08-26 08:00 — 4 players2026-08-27 00:00 — 2 players2026-08-27 16:00 — 2 players2026-08-28 08:00 — 5 players2026-08-29 00:00 — 6 players2026-08-29 16:00 — 11 players2026-08-30 08:00 — 8 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$29.99$0.002022-05-192026-08-272022-05-19 — best price $26.992022-11-29 — best price $10.792023-02-27 — best price $19.992023-05-07 — best price $6.602023-08-21 — best price $6.042023-10-30 — best price $5.992023-12-18 — best price $16.592024-02-05 — best price $19.992024-03-20 — best price $6.002024-05-07 — best price $15.192024-07-19 — best price $15.192024-09-18 — best price $4.792024-10-21 — best price $5.782024-11-21 — best price $3.992024-12-06 — best price $16.972025-01-01 — best price $4.502025-01-28 — best price $4.792025-02-24 — best price $4.422025-03-30 — best price $4.952025-04-29 — best price $2.392025-05-27 — best price $3.002025-06-27 — best price $4.002025-08-04 — best price $3.192025-08-30 — best price $16.572025-09-30 — best price $3.942025-11-02 — best price $15.192025-11-29 — best price $3.262026-01-08 — best price $16.792026-02-21 — best price $19.992026-04-10 — best price $3.202026-05-21 — best price $3.362026-07-01 — best price $3.692026-07-30 — best price $19.992026-08-15 — best price $3.992026-08-27 — best price $19.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

10
achievements tracked
41.7%
earned "Rescuer"
25.3%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam CloudFamily Sharing

7 supported languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)73833%10
PS5 (PlayStation)3956%10
Xbox Series, Xbox One (Xbox)3158%10
PS5 (PlayStation)2157%10
PS4 (PlayStation)560%10
Switch (Nintendo)20%0

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

Player tags

PuzzleMysteryThrillerAdventureEmotionalNarrativeStory RichAtmosphericExplorationTime Travel

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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