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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?

3
playing now
95%
positive of 2.2k reviews
Overwhelmingly Positive
steam rating
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
77/100
IGDB user rating (8 ratings)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$2.99
steam price (US)

3 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 07:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 16% of 18,216 Indie games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 56k–135k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 2,249 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 6 of 12 observed days (census price snapshots)

Players online

1332026-08-11 22:00 — 5 players2026-08-12 13:00 — 8 players2026-08-13 05:00 — 3 players2026-08-13 21:00 — 12 players2026-08-14 13:00 — 5 players2026-08-15 05:00 — 6 players2026-08-15 20:00 — 13 players2026-08-16 12:00 — 12 players2026-08-17 04:00 — 3 players2026-08-17 20:00 — 11 players2026-08-18 12:00 — 5 players2026-08-19 04:00 — 6 players2026-08-19 20:00 — 7 players2026-08-20 11:00 — 5 players2026-08-21 03:00 — 10 players2026-08-21 19:00 — 10 players2026-08-22 11:00 — 4 players2026-08-23 02:00 — 5 players2026-08-23 18:00 — 10 players2026-08-24 10:00 — 5 players2026-08-25 02:00 — 5 players2026-08-25 18:00 — 9 players2026-08-26 10:00 — 4 players2026-08-27 02:00 — 5 players2026-08-28 08:00 — 5 players2026-08-28 23:00 — 4 players2026-08-29 15:00 — 10 players2026-08-30 07:00 — 3 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

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.

Player tags

IndieHorrorNudityPuzzleAtmosphericSingleplayerHidden ObjectPsychological Horror

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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