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Keyword: A Spider's Thread cover art

Keyword: A Spider's Thread

City From Naught Inc. · 2021-09-27

Steam

Indie

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: First person

Releases: Sep 28, 2021 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Become an investigator in Keyword, a narrative thriller where you’ll depend on skills of logical deduction, hacking, and social engineering to solve challenging puzzles as the only means of finding your missing daughter.

Keyword: A Spider's Thread is an Indie game priced at $16.99, released in 2021, with an estimated owner base of 0 to 20,000 and a Very Positive sentiment based on 82% of 277 reviews.— census verdict as of 2026-10-16

82%
positive of 277 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
3h
to beat · rushed 3h
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$16.99
steam price (US)

Become an investigator in Keyword, a narrative thriller where you’ll depend on skills of logical deduction, hacking, and social engineering to solve challenging puzzles as the only means of finding your missing daughter. Play as Guo, a father with a complex past, who must use all the tools at his disposal to find his daughter, Sala. Solve problems as you would in real life, hack into emails and social media, and dive into the dark web to find your daughter’s whereabouts, all the while uncovering secrets within your own home. Use binoculars to spy into the homes of neighbors, discover lurking (Storyline via IGDB)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 14 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity down 12% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 21% of 51,291 Indie games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 5.5k–12k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 277 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

lowest across shops (ITAD)$16.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $11.89 at Steam (2023-04-19)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $16.99 · on sale 8 of 16 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
262620212026Week of 2021-09-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 26 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$16.99$11.892021-09-282026-10-082021-09-28 — best price $15.292021-10-28 — best price $15.292021-11-17 — best price $15.292021-12-01 — best price $16.992022-02-03 — best price $16.992022-04-25 — best price $16.992022-07-07 — best price $16.992022-09-22 — best price $16.992022-11-29 — best price $16.992023-01-05 — best price $16.992023-02-27 — best price $16.992023-03-23 — best price $16.992023-04-26 — best price $16.992023-07-13 — best price $16.992023-08-10 — best price $16.992023-10-10 — best price $16.992023-11-28 — best price $16.992024-01-04 — best price $16.992024-03-21 — best price $16.992024-04-26 — best price $16.992024-07-11 — best price $16.992024-10-02 — best price $16.992024-11-22 — best price $16.992024-12-04 — best price $16.992025-01-02 — best price $16.992025-03-08 — best price $16.992025-03-20 — best price $16.992025-04-26 — best price $16.992025-06-05 — best price $16.992025-07-10 — best price $16.992025-10-06 — best price $16.992026-01-05 — best price $16.992026-01-19 — best price $16.992026-03-16 — best price $16.992026-03-26 — best price $16.992026-05-03 — best price $16.992026-07-09 — best price $16.992026-08-10 — best price $16.992026-10-08 — best price $16.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

8
achievements tracked
52%
earned "Crime Scene"
13.3%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerFamily Sharing

6 supported languages: English, Simplified Chinese, French, German, Russian, Vietnamese

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)12119%8

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

Player tags

3DRPGCrimeIndieLogicPuzzleHackingMysteryThrillerCyberpunk

Census log

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

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