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Magical Eyes - Red is for Anguish cover art

Magical Eyes - Red is for Anguish

Pomera Studios · Fruitbat Factory · 2016-03-30

Steam

AdventureIndie

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Text

Releases: Mar 30, 2016 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Magical Eyes - Red is for Anguish is a thrilling mystery story revolving around a series of unfathomable incidents in a town.

82%
positive of 72 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
65/100
critic score (1 outlets, IGDB)
70/100
IGDB user rating (2 ratings)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$14.99
steam price (US)

In the middle of the night on a certain day of April 201X, the right arm of the owner of a general store is chopped off in the backyard of his own store. Even though he claims that the perpetrator is a 'doll' that was kept in the store, his words carry little weight due to the lack of other witnesses. The doll and the detached arm are gone from the scene of crime. “Like a light too strong may burn out one's retinas, so too can supernatural entities be toxic to humans. Even should they take on the invisible form of one's emotions.” This is a mystery story about bizarre incidents unfolding ar(Storyline via IGDB)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 3 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~0/week).
  • · Review velocity up 0% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 56% of 19,919 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 1.8k–4.3k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 72 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

lowest across shops (ITAD)$14.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $5.24 at GamersGate (2021-12-26) · bundled 3×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $14.99 · on sale 33 of 60 observed days · $9.75 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

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7720162026Week of 2016-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-04-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2016-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$14.99$5.622015-12-222026-09-222015-12-22 — best price $9.992016-08-01 — best price $13.612016-11-03 — best price $12.742017-01-26 — best price $14.992017-06-05 — best price $9.742017-11-09 — best price $8.992018-02-13 — best price $14.992018-06-12 — best price $7.502018-10-04 — best price $7.492018-12-31 — best price $7.502019-03-28 — best price $7.492019-08-01 — best price $7.492019-11-10 — best price $7.492020-01-13 — best price $7.492020-04-11 — best price $5.622020-08-19 — best price $14.992020-11-02 — best price $14.992021-01-26 — best price $14.992021-04-23 — best price $11.012021-07-27 — best price $5.622021-11-24 — best price $7.492022-02-03 — best price $14.992022-09-17 — best price $14.992022-11-30 — best price $14.992023-03-03 — best price $7.502023-07-13 — best price $14.992023-11-17 — best price $7.492024-01-23 — best price $5.632024-04-29 — best price $7.502024-07-04 — best price $5.632024-08-15 — best price $7.492024-11-22 — best price $7.502025-02-20 — best price $7.492025-05-24 — best price $14.992025-09-25 — best price $7.502025-12-12 — best price $7.502026-03-27 — best price $7.492026-06-25 — best price $7.492026-09-22 — best price $14.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

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1 supported languages: English

Player tags

CuteAnimeIndieHorrorMysteryAdventureVisual Novel

Census log

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

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