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Hollow Steps

QuickSave · SA Industry · 2018-02-28

Steam

AdventureIndie

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: First person

Releases: Feb 28, 2018 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

You are a customer of a virtual world company Dartom Inc. You are one of the many people who wants to test themselves in one of the many worlds created by the company. On your test, a ghost in the system will change your experience.

62%
positive of 90 reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$0.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 19 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity up 280% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 47% of 22,716 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 2.3k–5.4k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 90 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.49 at Steam (2022-04-25) · bundled 2×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $4.99 · on sale 16 of 20 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
4420182026Week of 2018-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$34.99$0.492018-03-022026-09-072018-03-02 — best price $3.592018-07-05 — best price $3.992018-10-30 — best price $1.992019-02-12 — best price $3.992019-06-26 — best price $3.192019-09-30 — best price $3.992020-03-10 — best price $1.992020-07-09 — best price $3.992020-10-29 — best price $1.992020-12-01 — best price $3.992021-03-24 — best price $1.992021-07-31 — best price $3.992021-11-11 — best price $0.512022-01-05 — best price $3.992022-03-11 — best price $1.032022-06-06 — best price $0.492022-08-19 — best price $3.492022-11-29 — best price $34.992023-03-23 — best price $14.992023-06-30 — best price $1.492023-09-10 — best price $14.992023-12-12 — best price $1.492024-03-21 — best price $14.992024-06-27 — best price $0.892024-09-08 — best price $14.992024-12-06 — best price $0.892025-03-13 — best price $0.832025-05-04 — best price $0.492025-09-08 — best price $4.992025-11-21 — best price $0.492026-02-19 — best price $0.492026-04-18 — best price $0.992026-08-24 — best price $0.492026-09-07 — best price $0.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFamily Sharing

17 supported languages: English, Turkish, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Hungarian, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese…

Player tags

IndiePuzzleRobotsMysteryAdventureDifficultSimulationStory RichAtmosphericExploration

Census log

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

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