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HOW WE KNOW WE'RE ALIVE

Motvind Studios · 2023-05-05

Steam

Adventure

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Side view

Releases: May 01, 2021 (Mac), May 01, 2021 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Mar 14, 2023 (iOS), May 01, 2021 (Linux)

HOW WE KNOW WE'RE ALIVE is an award winning, hour long melancholy, point-and-click narrative mystery set in the bible belt of Sweden.

97%
positive of 396 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
Free
steam price (US)

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 34 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~4/week).
  • · Review velocity down 26% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (101 reviews).
  • · Top 31% of 18,538 Adventure games in the census by review count.

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
999920232026Week of 2023-05-01: 99 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 30 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-09-01: 3 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Details

WindowsmacOSSingle-playerFamily Sharing1 DLC

1 supported languages: English

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2023-05-05 (Steam store data)

Player tags

2DLinearMysteryStylizedAdventureEmotionalAtmosphericFree to PlaySingleplayerPhilosophical

Census log

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

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