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In the Darkness of the Sea cover art

In the Darkness of the Sea

Olivier Leclair · 2017-02-01

Steam

AdventureIndie

Modes: Single player

Releases: Feb 01, 2017 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

In the Darkness of the Sea is a short narrative game about a boy lost in the middle of the ocean.

79%
positive of 81 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
60/100
IGDB user rating (1 ratings)
Free
steam price (US)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 9 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 10% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 49% of 23,220 Adventure games in the census by review count.

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
191920172025Week of 2017-02-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2017-02-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2017-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2017-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2017-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-09-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2017-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerFamily Sharing5 DLC

1 supported languages: English

Post-launch support: 5 DLC released, first 2017-02-01 (Steam store data)

Player tags

2DDarkIndieAdventureNarrationAtmosphericFree to Play

Census log

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

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