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Monolith

Animation Arts · 2023-10-11

SteamGOG

AdventureIndie

Modes: Single player

Releases: Oct 11, 2023 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Jun 13, 2024 (Nintendo Switch), Oct 11, 2023 (Linux)

A classical science fiction point and click adventure which takes you into a deep story and murky atmosphere, while solving logical puzzles. Accompany Tessa Carter and her talking robot as she finds out about herself and searches for a way to survive.

4
playing now
75%
positive of 356 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam rating
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
silver
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$14.99
steam price (US)

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

Tessa Carter, a space explorer in service of the Intergalactic Mining Corporation, was on a mission with her friend and pilot Mark and asleep in her cryo chamber when the ship came down on a foreign planet. She awoke when the incident was already over. With a small flying analysis robot called C.O.R.E. as her only companion, she must call for help or leave this planet in any other way. Between swamps and rocks she eventually finds an outpost of the Intergalactic Mining Corporation, which looks as if it was abandoned a long time ago. With ingenuity and persistence she tries to bring this place(Storyline via IGDB)

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 4 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 44 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~6/week).
  • · Review velocity down 20% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 46% of 11,362 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 7.1k–16k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 356 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

Steam$3.74-75%
GOG$3.75-75%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $3.74 at Steam (2026-06-25) · bundled 1×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $14.99 · on sale 34 of 58 observed days · $0.01 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
565620232026Week of 2023-10-01: 56 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 2 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

402026-08-15 23:00 — 1 players2026-08-16 15:00 — 1 players2026-08-17 07:00 — 0 players2026-08-17 22:00 — 0 players2026-08-18 14:00 — 1 players2026-08-19 06:00 — 0 players2026-08-19 22:00 — 2 players2026-08-20 13:00 — 0 players2026-08-21 05:00 — 1 players2026-08-21 21:00 — 2 players2026-08-22 13:00 — 3 players2026-08-23 04:00 — 3 players2026-08-23 20:00 — 4 players2026-08-24 12:00 — 3 players2026-08-25 04:00 — 1 players2026-08-25 20:00 — 4 players2026-08-26 12:00 — 3 players2026-08-27 04:00 — 0 players2026-08-27 20:00 — 2 players2026-08-28 12:00 — 0 players2026-08-29 04:00 — 0 players2026-08-29 20:00 — 3 players2026-08-30 12:00 — 4 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$14.99$3.742023-10-112026-08-302023-10-11 — best price $14.992023-12-13 — best price $12.742024-02-13 — best price $11.992024-03-14 — best price $11.992024-04-07 — best price $11.992024-06-19 — best price $10.492024-07-25 — best price $14.992024-09-20 — best price $10.492024-10-16 — best price $10.492024-11-14 — best price $8.992024-12-04 — best price $14.992025-01-09 — best price $8.992025-02-23 — best price $7.492025-03-14 — best price $14.992025-04-08 — best price $7.492025-05-07 — best price $7.492025-06-09 — best price $14.992025-07-10 — best price $14.992025-08-15 — best price $14.992025-09-19 — best price $14.992025-10-07 — best price $5.992025-10-20 — best price $5.992025-11-14 — best price $14.992025-12-18 — best price $4.942026-01-08 — best price $4.942026-02-22 — best price $4.492026-03-16 — best price $14.992026-04-07 — best price $4.492026-04-23 — best price $14.992026-05-27 — best price $4.492026-06-25 — best price $3.742026-07-23 — best price $14.992026-08-27 — best price $3.752026-08-30 — best price $3.75
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

14
achievements tracked
41.7%
earned "I don't want to starve."
11.3%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsLinuxSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFamily Sharing1 DLC

1 supported languages: English

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)10625%14
Switch (Nintendo)20%0

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

Player tags

2.5DSpaceRobotsSci-fiMysteryAdventureEmotionalFuturisticHand-drawnStory Rich

Census log

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

Recent updates

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Similarity via IGDB.

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