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Fade to Silence cover art

Fade to Silence

Black Forest Games · THQ Nordic · 2019-04-30

SteamGOGPlayStation StoreAmazonMicrosoft Store

RPG

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative

Releases: Apr 30, 2019 (Xbox One), Apr 30, 2018 (PlayStation 4), Apr 30, 2018 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Fade to Silence is a single-player and co-op survival adventure set in a post-apocalyptic world that is frozen in an eternal winter. Snow and ice have shaped a merciless landscape. Nature is corrupted. Monstrous creatures out of an Eldritch horror dream roam the frozen wasteland.

0
playing now
62%
positive of 1.3k reviews
Mixed
steam rating
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
42/100
critic score (3 outlets, IGDB)
60/100
IGDB user rating (5 ratings)
silver
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$29.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-08-29 18:00 UTC (census sample)

Fade to Silence is a 2019 action-adventure survival game developed by Black Forest Games and published by THQ Nordic. The game entered Steam Early Access in December 2017 and was released for PlayStation 4, Windows, and Xbox One in April 2019. It received mixed reviews from critics.

Health check

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 30% of 6,151 RPG games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 33k–80k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 1,337 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

GOG$29.99
lowest across shops (ITAD)$29.99
Microsoft Store$29.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $5.49 at WinGameStore (2024-03-12)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $29.99 · on sale 68 of 108 observed days · $24.50 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Players online

602026-08-11 21:00 — 3 players2026-08-12 13:00 — 4 players2026-08-13 05:00 — 2 players2026-08-13 20:00 — 1 players2026-08-14 12:00 — 4 players2026-08-15 04:00 — 2 players2026-08-15 20:00 — 1 players2026-08-16 12:00 — 3 players2026-08-17 04:00 — 1 players2026-08-17 20:00 — 2 players2026-08-18 12:00 — 6 players2026-08-19 03:00 — 4 players2026-08-19 19:00 — 2 players2026-08-20 11:00 — 2 players2026-08-21 03:00 — 1 players2026-08-21 18:00 — 1 players2026-08-22 10:00 — 3 players2026-08-23 02:00 — 3 players2026-08-23 18:00 — 2 players2026-08-24 09:00 — 1 players2026-08-25 01:00 — 2 players2026-08-25 17:00 — 1 players2026-08-26 09:00 — 1 players2026-08-27 02:00 — 0 players2026-08-27 18:00 — 1 players2026-08-28 10:00 — 0 players2026-08-29 02:00 — 2 players2026-08-29 18:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$100.00$5.162017-12-152026-08-302017-12-15 — best price $26.992019-07-11 — best price $31.992019-09-06 — best price $19.992019-11-02 — best price $39.992019-12-17 — best price $19.992020-01-30 — best price $28.652020-04-07 — best price $16.322020-06-17 — best price $29.992020-08-10 — best price $29.992020-12-17 — best price $9.892021-03-05 — best price $8.102021-06-09 — best price $9.892021-08-19 — best price $9.892021-11-03 — best price $29.992021-12-29 — best price $29.992022-03-04 — best price $29.992022-05-31 — best price $29.992022-08-05 — best price $7.502022-10-03 — best price $7.492022-12-07 — best price $24.172023-02-07 — best price $29.992023-04-28 — best price $5.852023-07-13 — best price $29.992023-08-29 — best price $6.082023-11-28 — best price $29.992024-01-25 — best price $7.492024-04-10 — best price $7.492024-06-26 — best price $7.492024-09-10 — best price $7.492024-12-07 — best price $29.992025-02-12 — best price $7.502025-04-26 — best price $29.992025-07-18 — best price $5.492025-09-29 — best price $6.722025-12-06 — best price $29.992026-03-02 — best price $22.492026-04-29 — best price $29.992026-07-09 — best price $29.992026-08-30 — best price $29.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

3952026-06-01 — 15 pageviews2026-06-04 — 11 pageviews2026-06-07 — 18 pageviews2026-06-10 — 12 pageviews2026-06-13 — 11 pageviews2026-06-16 — 10 pageviews2026-06-19 — 10 pageviews2026-06-22 — 10 pageviews2026-06-25 — 12 pageviews2026-06-28 — 18 pageviews2026-07-01 — 8 pageviews2026-07-04 — 14 pageviews2026-07-07 — 15 pageviews2026-07-10 — 11 pageviews2026-07-13 — 17 pageviews2026-07-16 — 8 pageviews2026-07-19 — 7 pageviews2026-07-22 — 5 pageviews2026-07-25 — 21 pageviews2026-07-28 — 9 pageviews2026-07-31 — 11 pageviews2026-08-03 — 8 pageviews2026-08-06 — 15 pageviews2026-08-09 — 22 pageviews2026-08-12 — 12 pageviews2026-08-15 — 11 pageviews2026-08-18 — 10 pageviews2026-08-21 — 20 pageviews2026-08-24 — 10 pageviews2026-08-27 — 7 pageviews2026-08-29 — 12 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

45
achievements tracked
53%
earned "The Flats"
14%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerMulti-playerCo-opOnline Co-opSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam CloudRemote Play on TVFamily Sharing

8 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Polish, Russian, Japanese

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
PS4 (PlayStation)5,0844%43
Xbox One (Xbox)1,3383%42
Steam (Steam)1,1782%45

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

Player tags

RPGCo-opHorrorCraftingSurvivalOpen WorldMultiplayerLovecraftianOnline Co-OpSingleplayer

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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