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I'm on Observation Duty cover art

I'm on Observation Duty

Notovia · 2019-04-03

Steam

Indie

Modes: Single player

Releases: Dec 14, 2018 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Feb 20, 2021 (Linux), Mar 06, 2021 (Mac)

As an employee of a mysterious organization your job is to monitor live surveillance camera footage and spot anomalies using your sharp eyes and good memory. Can you survive the entire night shift or will you succumb into paranoia?

I'm on Observation Duty is a 2019 Indie game priced at $2.99, with an estimated 50,000 to 100,000 owners and an Overwhelmingly Positive review sentiment (95% of 2251 reviews).

4
playing now
95%
positive of 2.3k reviews
Overwhelmingly Positive
steam's rating (official)
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
77/100
IGDB user rating (8 ratings)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$2.99
steam price (US)

4 players in-game as of 2026-10-15 09:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 4 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 158 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~20/week).
  • · Review velocity down 1% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 6% of 50,072 Indie games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-30

Estimated sales: 56k–135k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 2,251 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.99 at Steam (2019-10-28)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $2.99 · on sale 5 of 10 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
808020192026Week of 2019-04-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-05-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-06-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2019-08-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 46 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 71 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 44 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 65 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 32 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 54 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 54 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 28 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 35 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 80 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 58 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 64 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 50 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 36 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 36 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 30 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 43 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 43 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 35 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 59 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 29 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 37 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 41 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 31 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 39 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 31 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 29 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 33 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 30 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 35 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 30 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 10 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

1812026-09-15 18:00 — 9 players2026-09-17 02:00 — 8 players2026-09-18 10:00 — 1 players2026-09-19 17:00 — 6 players2026-09-21 01:00 — 6 players2026-09-22 08:00 — 4 players2026-09-23 16:00 — 3 players2026-09-24 23:00 — 10 players2026-09-26 07:00 — 4 players2026-09-27 14:00 — 6 players2026-09-28 22:00 — 4 players2026-09-30 05:00 — 4 players2026-10-01 13:00 — 1 players2026-10-02 20:00 — 8 players2026-10-04 04:00 — 5 players2026-10-05 12:00 — 5 players2026-10-06 20:00 — 7 players2026-10-08 03:00 — 10 players2026-10-09 11:00 — 5 players2026-10-10 18:00 — 9 players2026-10-12 02:00 — 15 players2026-10-13 09:00 — 2 players2026-10-14 17:00 — 2 players2026-10-15 09:00 — 4 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
320Apr 2019Aug 2026Apr 2019 — avg 2 · peak 13Jul 2019 — avg 1 · peak 5Oct 2019 — avg 1 · peak 6Jan 2020 — avg 1 · peak 4May 2020 — avg 1 · peak 5Aug 2020 — avg 1 · peak 8Nov 2020 — avg 2 · peak 7Feb 2021 — avg 1 · peak 6May 2021 — avg 2 · peak 8Aug 2021 — avg 18 · peak 50Nov 2021 — avg 27 · peak 149Feb 2022 — avg 23 · peak 69May 2022 — avg 32 · peak 75Aug 2022 — avg 18 · peak 44Nov 2022 — avg 12 · peak 45Feb 2023 — avg 15 · peak 55May 2023 — avg 20 · peak 47Aug 2023 — avg 10 · peak 28Nov 2023 — avg 14 · peak 53Feb 2024 — avg 12 · peak 34May 2024 — avg 10 · peak 31Aug 2024 — avg 8 · peak 23Nov 2024 — avg 14 · peak 46Feb 2025 — avg 10 · peak 28May 2025 — avg 7 · peak 18Aug 2025 — avg 8 · peak 25Nov 2025 — avg 10 · peak 34Feb 2026 — avg 10 · peak 28May 2026 — avg 7 · peak 18Aug 2026 — avg 6 · peak 16
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$2.99$0.992019-04-042026-07-092019-04-04 — best price $1.692019-06-26 — best price $1.592019-10-28 — best price $0.992019-12-23 — best price $1.492020-06-25 — best price $1.492020-10-29 — best price $1.492020-11-25 — best price $1.492020-12-22 — best price $1.492021-02-11 — best price $1.492021-06-24 — best price $1.492021-10-28 — best price $1.692021-11-24 — best price $1.692021-12-22 — best price $1.692022-01-27 — best price $1.692022-06-23 — best price $1.592022-10-25 — best price $1.792022-12-22 — best price $1.792023-01-25 — best price $2.992023-03-23 — best price $2.992023-11-02 — best price $2.992023-11-28 — best price $2.992024-01-04 — best price $2.992024-03-21 — best price $2.992024-07-11 — best price $2.992024-11-04 — best price $2.992024-12-04 — best price $2.992025-01-02 — best price $2.992025-03-20 — best price $2.992025-07-10 — best price $2.992025-10-06 — best price $2.992025-11-03 — best price $2.992026-01-05 — best price $2.992026-03-26 — best price $2.992026-04-16 — best price $2.992026-07-09 — best price $2.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

8
achievements tracked
72%
earned "R.I.P."
34.5%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFamily Sharing

3 supported languages: English, Korean, Russian

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)2,33224%8

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

Where its players are

Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.

Player tags

IndieHorrorNudityPuzzleAtmosphericSingleplayerHidden ObjectPsychological Horror

Census log

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

Players also track

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Similarity via IGDB.

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