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Face Noir

Mad Orange · Phoenix Online Publishing · 2013-10-17

Steam

AdventureIndie

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Side view

Releases: Jul 31, 2013 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

A moody tale that combines the intrigue and atmosphere of a Raymond Chandler novel or Humphrey Bogart film with classic point-and-click adventure gameplay, Face Noir follows private eye Jack Del Nero as he’s falsely accused of murdering the man who left a little girl in his protection.

Face Noir is a $9.99 Adventure and Indie game released in 2013, with an owner estimate of 100,000 .. 200,000 and a review sentiment of Mixed (66% of 338 reviews).

1
playing now
66%
positive of 339 reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
48/100
IGDB user rating (11 ratings)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$9.99
steam price (US)

1 players in-game as of 2026-10-15 08:00 UTC (census sample)

Face Noir is a point-and-click adventure puzzle video game developed by Italian studio Mad Orange and published by Phoenix Online Studios. It released in July 2013 for Windows.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 1 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 6 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity up 20% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 23% of 29,019 Adventure games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-01

Estimated sales: 14k–27k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 339 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.59 at GreenManGaming (2019-12-13) · bundled 20×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $9.99 · on sale 29 of 36 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
3320162026Week of 2016-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2016-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2016-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

102026-09-15 17:00 — 0 players2026-09-17 01:00 — 0 players2026-09-18 09:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 16:00 — 0 players2026-09-21 00:00 — 0 players2026-09-22 07:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 15:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 22:00 — 0 players2026-09-26 06:00 — 0 players2026-09-27 13:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 21:00 — 0 players2026-09-30 04:00 — 0 players2026-10-01 12:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 19:00 — 0 players2026-10-04 03:00 — 0 players2026-10-05 11:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 19:00 — 0 players2026-10-08 02:00 — 1 players2026-10-09 10:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 17:00 — 1 players2026-10-12 01:00 — 0 players2026-10-13 08:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 16:00 — 0 players2026-10-15 08:00 — 1 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$23.11$0.592015-01-012026-08-172015-01-01 — best price $3.492015-05-26 — best price $2.492015-10-23 — best price $11.002016-01-29 — best price $9.992016-07-04 — best price $9.992016-11-29 — best price $9.992017-07-31 — best price $4.992018-03-17 — best price $2.492018-11-15 — best price $3.292019-05-23 — best price $9.992019-12-13 — best price $0.592020-05-27 — best price $8.282020-06-22 — best price $0.992020-07-31 — best price $8.892020-08-28 — best price $8.892020-09-27 — best price $9.992020-11-25 — best price $3.492021-01-06 — best price $9.992021-02-02 — best price $9.992021-03-13 — best price $8.382021-04-16 — best price $8.382021-05-14 — best price $8.382021-08-22 — best price $7.342021-12-11 — best price $9.992022-05-07 — best price $9.992022-12-08 — best price $9.992023-06-29 — best price $2.492024-01-15 — best price $1.992024-08-23 — best price $7.892025-01-13 — best price $7.892025-06-03 — best price $7.892025-11-25 — best price $2.992026-04-28 — best price $7.892026-08-17 — best price $7.48
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

1002026-06-02 — 1 pageviews2026-06-06 — 0 pageviews2026-06-10 — 3 pageviews2026-06-14 — 3 pageviews2026-06-18 — 3 pageviews2026-06-22 — 7 pageviews2026-06-26 — 3 pageviews2026-06-30 — 3 pageviews2026-07-04 — 2 pageviews2026-07-08 — 3 pageviews2026-07-12 — 2 pageviews2026-07-16 — 4 pageviews2026-07-20 — 3 pageviews2026-07-24 — 3 pageviews2026-07-28 — 3 pageviews2026-08-01 — 7 pageviews2026-08-05 — 6 pageviews2026-08-09 — 8 pageviews2026-08-13 — 4 pageviews2026-08-17 — 4 pageviews2026-08-21 — 1 pageviews2026-08-25 — 1 pageviews2026-08-29 — 2 pageviews2026-09-02 — 3 pageviews2026-09-06 — 1 pageviews2026-09-10 — 5 pageviews2026-09-14 — 1 pageviews2026-09-18 — 2 pageviews2026-09-22 — 2 pageviews2026-09-26 — 3 pageviews2026-09-30 — 2 pageviews2026-10-04 — 6 pageviews2026-10-08 — 3 pageviews2026-10-11 — 2 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam Trading CardsFamily Sharing

3 supported languages: English, Italian, Russian

Player tags

NoirIndieMysteryAdventureDetectiveThird PersonPoint & Click

Census log

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

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