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Unbound Creations · 2017-10-03

Steam

AdventureIndie

Modes: Single player

Releases: Oct 03, 2017 (Mac), Oct 03, 2017 (Linux), Oct 03, 2017 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Short, thought-provoking adventure where you are a News Editor and decide what stories get published, set in a fictional city where most people are genetically modified. Multiple unique endings let you share your story and see what the Headliner before you did.

0
playing now
77%
positive of 936 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam rating
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
69/100
IGDB user rating (7 ratings)
2.1h
time to beat (IGDB)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$4.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 08:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 31% of 11,312 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 23k–56k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 936 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $1.49 at Steam (2021-06-04) · bundled 1×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $4.99 · on sale 9 of 18 observed days (census price snapshots)

Players online

102026-08-11 21:00 — 0 players2026-08-12 13:00 — 0 players2026-08-13 05:00 — 0 players2026-08-13 20:00 — 0 players2026-08-14 12:00 — 1 players2026-08-15 04:00 — 0 players2026-08-15 20:00 — 1 players2026-08-16 12:00 — 0 players2026-08-17 04:00 — 0 players2026-08-17 20:00 — 0 players2026-08-18 11:00 — 0 players2026-08-19 03:00 — 1 players2026-08-19 19:00 — 0 players2026-08-20 11:00 — 0 players2026-08-21 03:00 — 0 players2026-08-21 18:00 — 0 players2026-08-22 10:00 — 0 players2026-08-23 02:00 — 0 players2026-08-23 18:00 — 0 players2026-08-24 09:00 — 1 players2026-08-25 01:00 — 0 players2026-08-25 17:00 — 0 players2026-08-26 09:00 — 0 players2026-08-27 02:00 — 0 players2026-08-27 18:00 — 0 players2026-08-28 10:00 — 0 players2026-08-29 00:00 — 0 players2026-08-29 16:00 — 0 players2026-08-30 08:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$4.99$1.492017-10-052026-08-032017-10-05 — best price $2.542018-01-23 — best price $2.002018-05-07 — best price $2.992018-07-10 — best price $2.992019-01-03 — best price $2.992019-05-28 — best price $2.992020-01-27 — best price $2.992020-05-12 — best price $2.992020-10-18 — best price $2.992021-01-05 — best price $2.992021-06-08 — best price $2.992021-08-30 — best price $2.992021-12-01 — best price $2.992022-02-14 — best price $3.992022-05-30 — best price $3.992022-09-23 — best price $3.342022-12-22 — best price $2.742023-04-10 — best price $3.342023-06-29 — best price $1.992023-10-09 — best price $2.992023-12-21 — best price $2.492024-03-25 — best price $3.742024-06-27 — best price $3.992024-10-07 — best price $3.242024-11-27 — best price $3.742025-01-20 — best price $3.742025-06-26 — best price $2.992025-09-29 — best price $2.992025-12-18 — best price $1.742026-04-20 — best price $3.742026-06-25 — best price $3.242026-08-03 — best price $4.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

29
achievements tracked
90.9%
earned "Day 1"
39.8%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam Trading CardsCaptions availableFamily Sharing

11 supported languages: English, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Korean, Spanish - Spain, Spanish - Latin America, Russian, German, Japanese, Portuguese - Portugal, Portuguese - Brazil

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)1,32412%29

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

Player tags

2DIndieShortCasualPoliticsAdventurePoliticalDystopian SimulationStory Rich

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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