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Highwater

Demagog Studio · Untold Tales · 2024-03-14

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ActionAdventure

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Third person, Bird view / Isometric

Releases: Mar 15, 2023 (iOS), Mar 15, 2023 (Android), Mar 14, 2024 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Mar 14, 2024 (PlayStation 5), Mar 14, 2024 (Xbox Series X|S), Mar 14, 2024 (Nintendo Switch)

Earth has flooded and the planet is doomed, but there’s still time to enjoy the view. Guide Nikos and friends through the flooded world of Highwater and beyond in this story driven, adventure game where they’ll have to fight for their chance to escape.

Highwater is a 2024 Action Adventure game priced at $19.99, with an owner estimate of 0 .. 20,000 and a review sentiment of Mostly Positive (71% of 99 reviews).

71%
positive of 99 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
65/100
critic score (2 outlets, IGDB)
4.00★
PlayStation Store rating (48 ratings)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$19.99
steam price (US)

Amid the Great Climate Catastrophe, the flooded region of Hightower has become a kind of safe zone between the two dry regions: the nearly global ravaged land of the War Zone, and the fortified city of Alphaville, where the ultra-rich live behind giant walls. With life on Earth becoming untenable for humans, and rumors of an escape to Mars floating around, Nikos begins a perilous journey, picking up friends along the way. First to Hightower, then beyond to cross the impenetrable border of Alphaville, battling insurgents and stealing food along the way. Will Nikos and his friends manage to sne(Storyline via IGDB)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 14 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity down 22% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 39% of 27,656 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 2.0k–4.5k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 99 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

GOG$19.99
Microsoft Store$19.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $3.79 at Fanatical (2024-11-22) · bundled 2×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $19.99 · on sale 10 of 65 observed days · $16.20 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
101020242026Week of 2024-03-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$99.99$3.792022-11-042026-10-142022-11-04 — best price $99.992024-03-21 — best price $19.992024-04-29 — best price $9.992024-05-07 — best price $17.882024-06-14 — best price $19.992024-07-11 — best price $19.992024-07-25 — best price $19.992024-08-05 — best price $9.992024-08-23 — best price $14.692024-09-25 — best price $4.992024-10-17 — best price $19.992024-11-02 — best price $19.992024-11-22 — best price $3.792024-12-04 — best price $19.992025-01-02 — best price $19.992025-01-12 — best price $19.992025-01-23 — best price $4.992025-02-05 — best price $4.992025-02-27 — best price $4.992025-03-14 — best price $19.992025-04-10 — best price $9.992025-05-16 — best price $19.992025-06-17 — best price $19.992025-07-23 — best price $19.992025-09-08 — best price $9.992025-12-20 — best price $15.892026-07-09 — best price $19.992026-08-03 — best price $5.002026-08-27 — best price $19.992026-09-01 — best price $19.992026-09-06 — best price $19.992026-09-11 — best price $19.992026-09-16 — best price $19.992026-09-21 — best price $19.992026-09-26 — best price $19.992026-10-01 — best price $19.992026-10-06 — best price $19.992026-10-11 — best price $19.992026-10-14 — best price $19.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportDualSense Controller SupportDualSense Controller SupportSteam CloudFamily Sharing1 DLC

13 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Spanish - Latin America, Thai, Traditional Chinese…

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2024-03-14 (Steam store data)

Player tags

3DActionPuzzleStylizedTacticalAdventureMinimalistAtmosphericExplorationSingleplayer

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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