Is this Game Trying to Kill Me?
Stately Snail · 2024-11-12
Steam
ActionAdventureIndie
Modes: Single player · Perspectives: First person
Releases: Apr 04, 2025 (PlayStation 5), Apr 04, 2025 (PlayStation 4), Apr 04, 2025 (Nintendo Switch), Nov 13, 2024 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Apr 04, 2025 (Xbox One), Apr 04, 2025 (Xbox Series X|S)
An old shack deep in a dense forest, a strange computer and a game that's trying to kill you!
95%
positive of 1.7k reviews
Overwhelmingly Positive
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
3h
to beat · rushed 3h · completionist 3h
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Verified
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
3 players in-game as of 2026-10-16 20:00 UTC (census sample)
Health check
Quietly active
- · 3 players in-game at the last census sample.
- · 43 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~5/week).
- · Review velocity down 2% vs the prior 8 weeks.
- · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (283 reviews).
- · Top 11% of 28,726 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 34k–77k copies
Review-multiple estimate from 1,716 total reviews — how this is computed.
Current store prices
| lowest across shops (ITAD) | $14.99 | |
Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.
All-time low: $5.99 at Steam (2026-06-25) · bundled 2×via IsThereAnyDeal
12-month high $14.99 · on sale 6 of 13 observed days (census price snapshots)
Review momentum
PositiveNegative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.Price history
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).Completion
96.1%
earned "The Game Has Begun"
73%
median achievement earned by
- · 96.1% of players earned The Game Has Begun
- · 73% of players earned It's alive!
- · 38% of players earned Worth a Try
Global achievement rates from Steam.
Details
WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam CloudFamily Sharing
7 supported languages: English, Russian, German, Portuguese - Brazil, Simplified Chinese, Korean, Japanese
Console footprint
| Platform | Players tracked | Completion | Trophies/achievements |
|---|
| Steam (Steam) | 1,158 | 38% | 17 |
| PS5 (PlayStation) | 236 | 37% | 18 |
| PS5 (PlayStation) | 161 | 33% | 18 |
| Xbox Series (Xbox) | 149 | 22% | 17 |
| Xbox One (Xbox) | 57 | 35% | 17 |
| PS4 (PlayStation) | 25 | 32% | 18 |
| PS5 (PlayStation) | 17 | 12% | 18 |
| PS5 (PlayStation) | 13 | 8% | 18 |
| PS4 (PlayStation) | 10 | 20% | 18 |
| PS4 (PlayStation) | 8 | 13% | 18 |
| PS4 (PlayStation) | 4 | 25% | 18 |
| Switch (Nintendo) | 2 | 0% | 0 |
Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.
Census log
- 2024-11-13First review activity on record (week of 2024-11-13).
- 2024-11-13Biggest review week on record: 283 reviews (week of 2024-11-13).
- 2026-10-16Highest concurrent player count the census has recorded: 3 (2026-10-16).
Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.
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