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GabeN: The Final Decision

Alex Zhang · 2015-09-21

Steam

CasualRPG

Modes: Single player

Releases: Sep 21, 2015 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Join Gabe Newell in his adventure to save his company and find out why his long time friend, and co-worker Robin Walker sabotaged Valve's 3 most wanted games.

GabeN: The Final Decision is a Casual, RPG game released in 2015, priced at $0.99, with an estimated 100,000 .. 200,000 owners and a Mixed review sentiment (62% of 683 reviews).

0
playing now
62%
positive of 684 reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
50/100
IGDB user rating (3 ratings)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$0.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 15:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 4 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity up 0% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (18 reviews).
  • · Top 11% of 29,066 Casual games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-31

Estimated sales: 17k–41k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 684 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.49 at Steam (2016-12-22) · bundled 1×via IsThereAnyDeal

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
101020152026Week of 2015-09-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2015-09-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2015-10-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2015-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2015-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2016-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2016-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2016-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2016-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2016-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2017-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2017-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2017-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

402026-09-15 01:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 09:00 — 0 players2026-09-17 16:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 00:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 07:00 — 0 players2026-09-21 15:00 — 0 players2026-09-22 23:00 — 1 players2026-09-24 06:00 — 1 players2026-09-25 14:00 — 0 players2026-09-26 21:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 05:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 12:00 — 0 players2026-09-30 20:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 03:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 11:00 — 0 players2026-10-04 19:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 02:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 10:00 — 1 players2026-10-08 17:00 — 3 players2026-10-10 01:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 08:00 — 0 players2026-10-12 16:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 00:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 15:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
850Sep 2015May 2023Sep 2015 — avg 6 · peak 74Nov 2015 — avg 1 · peak 7Jan 2016 — avg 78 · peak 467Mar 2016 — avg 11 · peak 49May 2016 — avg 21 · peak 462Jul 2016 — avg 8 · peak 24Sep 2016 — avg 3 · peak 19Nov 2016 — avg 2 · peak 9Jan 2017 — avg 2 · peak 8Mar 2017 — avg 1 · peak 10May 2017 — avg 1 · peak 7Jul 2017 — avg 1 · peak 6Sep 2017 — avg 1 · peak 8Nov 2017 — avg 1 · peak 10Jan 2018 — avg 1 · peak 5Mar 2018 — avg 0 · peak 4May 2018 — avg 0 · peak 4Jul 2018 — avg 1 · peak 4Sep 2018 — avg 0 · peak 3Nov 2018 — avg 0 · peak 2Jan 2019 — avg 0 · peak 3Mar 2019 — avg 0 · peak 2May 2019 — avg 0 · peak 2Jul 2019 — avg 0 · peak 70Sep 2019 — avg 0 · peak 2Nov 2019 — avg 0 · peak 2Aug 2020 — avg 0 · peak 1Jan 2021 — avg 0 · peak 11Jan 2022 — avg 1 · peak 2Jul 2022 — avg 1 · peak 2Oct 2022 — avg 1 · peak 2Mar 2023 — avg 1 · peak 2May 2023 — avg 1 · peak 2
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$2.99$0.492015-09-212020-10-152015-09-21 — best price $2.692015-09-28 — best price $2.992015-11-02 — best price $2.992015-12-06 — best price $2.692015-12-20 — best price $2.992015-12-28 — best price $1.492016-01-04 — best price $2.992016-07-03 — best price $0.502016-07-04 — best price $2.992016-08-08 — best price $0.992016-12-22 — best price $0.492017-01-02 — best price $0.992017-03-30 — best price $0.492017-04-03 — best price $0.992017-04-05 — best price $0.492017-04-10 — best price $0.992020-04-21 — best price $2.192020-05-11 — best price $2.992020-05-12 — best price $2.192020-05-25 — best price $2.992020-10-15 — best price $0.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

13
achievements tracked
20.4%
earned "Thanks for playing GabeN: The Final Decision! GabeN appreciates that! ;) "
5.8%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam Trading CardsFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)3,21516%13

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

Player tags

RPGIndieMemesCasualComedyRPGMakerIlluminati

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.