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Fireflies cover art

Fireflies

Phanom Games · 2015-09-07

Steam

AdventureIndie

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: First person

Releases: Sep 07, 2015 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Adventure horror with many puzzles and an interesting story.

Fireflies is an Adventure, Indie game released in 2015, priced at $1.99, with an estimated 50,000 .. 100,000 owners and a Mostly Negative review sentiment (37% of 87 reviews).

0
playing now
37%
positive of 87 reviews
Mostly Negative
steam's rating (official)
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
30/100
IGDB user rating (2 ratings)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$1.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 19:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 13 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity up 44% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 43% of 28,748 Adventure games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-01

Estimated sales: 2.2k–5.2k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 87 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.49 at Steam (2016-09-04) · bundled 1×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $1.99 · on sale 2 of 4 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
3320152026Week of 2015-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2016-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2016-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

202026-09-15 04:00 — 1 players2026-09-16 13:00 — 2 players2026-09-17 20:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 04:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 11:00 — 0 players2026-09-21 19:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 02:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 10:00 — 1 players2026-09-25 17:00 — 1 players2026-09-27 01:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 08:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 16:00 — 0 players2026-09-30 23:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 07:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 14:00 — 0 players2026-10-04 23:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 06:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 14:00 — 0 players2026-10-08 21:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 05:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 12:00 — 0 players2026-10-12 20:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 03:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 19:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
890Sep 2015Oct 2025Sep 2015 — avg 0 · peak 4Nov 2015 — avg 0 · peak 1Jan 2016 — avg 0 · peak 1Mar 2016 — avg 0 · peak 1Jun 2016 — avg 0 · peak 1Sep 2016 — avg 0 · peak 1Dec 2016 — avg 19 · peak 229Feb 2017 — avg 1 · peak 11Apr 2017 — avg 18 · peak 1,160Jun 2017 — avg 1 · peak 4Aug 2017 — avg 11 · peak 939Oct 2017 — avg 0 · peak 4Dec 2017 — avg 83 · peak 1,494Feb 2018 — avg 20 · peak 500Apr 2018 — avg 0 · peak 2Jun 2018 — avg 0 · peak 3Aug 2018 — avg 0 · peak 2Oct 2018 — avg 0 · peak 2Dec 2018 — avg 0 · peak 1Feb 2019 — avg 3 · peak 28Apr 2019 — avg 0 · peak 2Jun 2019 — avg 0 · peak 2Aug 2019 — avg 0 · peak 1Aug 2020 — avg 1 · peak 43Dec 2021 — avg 3 · peak 31Oct 2025 — avg 24 · peak 441
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$9.99$0.492015-09-072026-01-052015-09-07 — best price $4.962015-10-29 — best price $2.442015-12-30 — best price $6.992016-01-09 — best price $6.992016-06-02 — best price $1.992016-09-11 — best price $1.992016-11-01 — best price $1.992016-11-14 — best price $1.992016-11-29 — best price $1.992017-01-02 — best price $1.992017-05-08 — best price $1.992017-07-05 — best price $1.992018-02-19 — best price $1.992019-07-09 — best price $1.992021-12-22 — best price $0.492022-01-27 — best price $0.492023-10-26 — best price $1.392024-10-28 — best price $0.552024-12-19 — best price $0.552025-09-29 — best price $0.592025-10-27 — best price $0.592025-12-18 — best price $0.552026-01-05 — best price $1.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

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Player tags

IndieHorrorPuzzleAdventure

Census log

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

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