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Gamedec - Definitive Edition

Anshar Studios · Anshar Publishing · 2021-09-16

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AdventureIndieRPG

Modes: Single player

Releases: Feb 24, 2023 (PlayStation 5), Sep 16, 2021 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Gamedec is a single-player cyberpunk isometric RPG. You are a game detective, who solves crimes inside virtual worlds. Use your wits to gather info from your witnesses and suspects, getting to the bottom of deceptive schemes. The game continually adapts to your decisions and never judges.

80%
positive of 1.7k reviews
Mostly Positive
steam rating
15h
to beat · rushed 11h · completionist 20h
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$29.99
steam price (US)
Gamedec is a point-and-click adventure role-playing video game developed by Anshar Studios and published by Anshar Publishing. It was released for Windows on September 16, 2021, followed by Nintendo Switch on July 1, 2022 and PlayStation 5 on February 23, 2023. The game takes place in Warsaw and features a cyberpunk universe and themes of film noir, tech noir, and transhumanism. The player controls a "game detective" or "gamedec" and participate in solving mysteries related to virtual-reality games, collecting clues and making deductions in order to drive the story forward.

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 54 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~7/week).
  • · Review velocity down 13% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (281 reviews).
  • · Top 23% of 11,762 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 35k–78k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 1,737 total reviews — how this is computed.

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
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Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Attention

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Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

53
achievements tracked
48.9%
earned "Write that down"
12.7%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsAdjustable Text SizeColor AlternativesCustom Volume ControlsAdjustable DifficultyMouse Only OptionSave AnytimeStereo SoundSubtitle Options9 DLC

11 supported languages: English, Polish, German, Simplified Chinese, Russian, French, Spanish - Spain, Traditional Chinese, Korean, Turkish, Japanese

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)2,6472%53
PS5 (PlayStation)15122%54

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

Player tags

RPGNoirMysteryAdventureCyberpunkIsometricLore-RichNonlinearStory RichAtmospheric

Census log

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

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