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Irony Curtain: From Matryoshka with Love cover art

Irony Curtain: From Matryoshka with Love

Artifex Mundi · 2019-05-16

SteamGOGPlayStation Store

AdventureIndie

Modes: Single player

Releases: Jun 27, 2019 (Nintendo Switch), May 16, 2019 (Mac), May 16, 2019 (Linux), May 16, 2019 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Jun 28, 2019 (Xbox One), Jun 28, 2019 (PlayStation 4)

Irony Curtain: From Matryoshka with Love is a satirical point and click inspired by the classic adventure games. It smuggles you out of your comfort zone and throws you into the middle of a Cold War spy intrigue - where there’s an even bigger game being played …

2
playing now
87%
positive of 430 reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
100/100
critic score (1 outlets, IGDB)
79/100
IGDB user rating (10 ratings)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$19.99
steam price (US)

2 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 12:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 43% of 11,312 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 11k–26k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 430 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

GOG$3.99-80%
GOG$3.99-80%
lowest across shops (ITAD)$3.99-80%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $1.99 at Steam (2021-10-28)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $19.99 · on sale 35 of 54 observed days · $2.00 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Players online

302026-08-12 03:00 — 0 players2026-08-12 18:00 — 1 players2026-08-13 10:00 — 1 players2026-08-14 02:00 — 0 players2026-08-14 18:00 — 0 players2026-08-15 10:00 — 1 players2026-08-16 02:00 — 0 players2026-08-16 17:00 — 3 players2026-08-17 10:00 — 0 players2026-08-18 01:00 — 0 players2026-08-18 17:00 — 0 players2026-08-19 09:00 — 0 players2026-08-20 01:00 — 0 players2026-08-20 16:00 — 1 players2026-08-21 08:00 — 0 players2026-08-22 00:00 — 1 players2026-08-22 16:00 — 1 players2026-08-23 07:00 — 1 players2026-08-23 23:00 — 1 players2026-08-24 15:00 — 0 players2026-08-25 07:00 — 0 players2026-08-25 23:00 — 0 players2026-08-26 15:00 — 1 players2026-08-27 07:00 — 0 players2026-08-27 23:00 — 0 players2026-08-28 15:00 — 1 players2026-08-29 04:00 — 0 players2026-08-29 20:00 — 1 players2026-08-30 12:00 — 2 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$19.99$1.992019-05-092026-08-302019-05-09 — best price $17.992019-08-05 — best price $19.992019-11-01 — best price $19.992020-01-06 — best price $13.992020-03-23 — best price $19.992020-06-15 — best price $19.992020-11-27 — best price $5.992021-02-10 — best price $3.992021-05-10 — best price $19.992021-09-13 — best price $19.992021-11-26 — best price $3.992022-01-27 — best price $1.992022-05-02 — best price $1.992022-06-28 — best price $19.992023-03-06 — best price $1.992023-06-12 — best price $19.992023-11-07 — best price $3.992024-01-05 — best price $19.992024-03-05 — best price $1.992024-05-24 — best price $19.992024-08-26 — best price $5.992024-10-28 — best price $4.992024-12-19 — best price $4.992025-03-11 — best price $4.992025-05-16 — best price $19.992025-08-26 — best price $3.992025-10-20 — best price $3.992026-01-03 — best price $19.992026-03-19 — best price $3.992026-05-25 — best price $3.992026-08-12 — best price $19.992026-08-21 — best price $3.992026-08-30 — best price $3.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam Trading CardsSteam CloudRemote Play on TVFamily Sharing2 DLC

2 supported languages: English, German

Player tags

2DFunnyIndiePuzzleSatireParody Cold WarColorfulAdventurePolitical

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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