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Lucid9: Inciting Incident

Fallen Snow Studios · 2016-04-14

Steam

CasualSimulationFree To Play

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: First person, Text

Releases: Apr 14, 2016 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Apr 14, 2016 (Mac), Apr 14, 2016 (Linux)

Lucid9 is a visual novel focused on a web of intricate mysteries set in the fictional 2018 metropolis of Isamu. Lucid9: Inciting Incident is the first part of the story, focused on a string of disappearances that occur at a prestigious, uppity boarding academy.

Lucid9: Inciting Incident is a Casual, Simulation, and Free To Play game released in 2016, priced as free-to-play, with an estimated 100,000 to 200,000 owners and Very Positive sentiment (90% of 1037 reviews).

2
playing now
90%
positive of 1.0k reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
Free
steam price (US)

2 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 15:00 UTC (census sample)

// D-DAY. You're a murderer. // 1 DAY PRIOR. You can't trust anyone. You lose your mind. // 3 DAYS PRIOR. Someone dies before your eyes. Your friends distance themselves from you. // 4 DAYS PRIOR. Your school enforces a curfew. You nearly drown. Your past catches up to you. // 6 DAYS PRIOR. You learn that students at your school have been disappearing into nothingness. You visit an amusement park with a bunch of friends anyway. // 8 DAYS PRIOR. You take a history exam. Maybe you pass, maybe you fail. Then you participate in a treasure hunt in the sketchiest part of the city. Thankfully, n(Storyline via IGDB)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 2 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 21 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~3/week).
  • · Review velocity up 24% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 8% of 29,219 Casual games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-31

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
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Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

302026-09-15 16:00 — 2 players2026-09-17 00:00 — 0 players2026-09-18 08:00 — 1 players2026-09-19 15:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 23:00 — 1 players2026-09-22 07:00 — 1 players2026-09-23 14:00 — 2 players2026-09-24 22:00 — 1 players2026-09-26 05:00 — 0 players2026-09-27 13:00 — 1 players2026-09-28 20:00 — 1 players2026-09-30 04:00 — 1 players2026-10-01 11:00 — 1 players2026-10-02 19:00 — 2 players2026-10-04 03:00 — 1 players2026-10-05 10:00 — 2 players2026-10-06 18:00 — 2 players2026-10-08 01:00 — 3 players2026-10-09 09:00 — 1 players2026-10-10 16:00 — 1 players2026-10-12 00:00 — 2 players2026-10-13 08:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 15:00 — 2 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
861Apr 2016Sep 2025Apr 2016 — avg 86 · peak 182Jul 2016 — avg 13 · peak 26Oct 2016 — avg 7 · peak 18Jan 2017 — avg 6 · peak 18Apr 2017 — avg 5 · peak 14Jul 2017 — avg 5 · peak 12Oct 2017 — avg 4 · peak 15Jan 2018 — avg 8 · peak 20Apr 2018 — avg 5 · peak 15Jul 2018 — avg 5 · peak 18Oct 2018 — avg 3 · peak 10Jan 2019 — avg 3 · peak 10Apr 2019 — avg 3 · peak 11Jul 2019 — avg 3 · peak 8Oct 2019 — avg 2 · peak 6Jan 2020 — avg 3 · peak 10Apr 2020 — avg 3 · peak 8Jul 2020 — avg 2 · peak 8Oct 2020 — avg 3 · peak 10Jan 2021 — avg 3 · peak 7Apr 2021 — avg 2 · peak 7Jul 2021 — avg 2 · peak 7Oct 2021 — avg 1 · peak 4Jan 2022 — avg 2 · peak 6Apr 2022 — avg 2 · peak 6Jul 2022 — avg 2 · peak 6Feb 2023 — avg 2 · peak 6Aug 2023 — avg 1 · peak 3Sep 2025 — avg 2 · peak 8

▲ +1 avg players vs prior month — Sep 2025

Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Completion

13
achievements tracked
19.9%
earned "Ultimate Negotiator"
17.3%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFamily Sharing1 DLC

1 supported languages: English

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2017-04-14 (Steam store data)

Player tags

GoreAnimeIndieCasualHorrorMysteryViolentDetectiveSimulationStory Rich

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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