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Grey Instinct

Plain Cheeseburger Games · 2021-07-21

Steam

AdventureCasualIndieFree To PlayEarly Access

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Third person

Releases: Jul 21, 2021 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

In this cyberpunk 2D point-and-click adventure game, play as Grey, an amateur detective. Unravel the mystery by searching for clues, solving puzzles, talking to the mask-wearing residents of New Corium, and, if you have time, maybe go on a date!

95%
positive of 732 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
Free
steam price (US)

Grey sucks at dating, but at least he's slightly better at being an amateur detective! After one particularly bad first date, Kana, Grey's cute childhood friend, asks him for help with a mystery! What starts as a mysterious break-in quickly turns into a bigger conspiracy! Will this be Grey's big break as a detective? And more importantly, can he finally go on a good first date?!(Storyline via IGDB)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 19 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity down 39% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (171 reviews).
  • · Top 16% of 29,128 Adventure games in the census by review count.

Review momentum

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16516520212026Week of 2021-07-01: 130 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 165 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 73 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 46 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 42 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 30 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-09-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Completion

6
achievements tracked
81.2%
earned "Master Chef"
59.8%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam CloudFamily Sharing1 DLC

3 supported languages: English, Korean, Simplified Chinese

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2023-12-31 (Steam store data)

Census log

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Similarity via IGDB.

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