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Near-Death-Expedition

『縋想』プロジェクト · 2025-01-03

Steam

AdventureIndie

Modes: Single player

Releases: Jan 03, 2025 (Mac), Jan 03, 2025 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

After quitting the job, you were casually browsing a video site when you saw a strange video with a blank thumbnail. "Can you hear me? Can you see me...?" The next day, you receive a message requesting you to be the manager of the mysterious VTuber "Owarino Rinne". The endless journey begins.

98%
positive of 54 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
$7.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 12 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity up 9% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 70% of 14,488 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 1.1k–2.4k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 54 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $5.59 at Steam (2026-06-25)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $7.99 · on sale 3 of 6 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
5520252026Week of 2025-01-03: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-01-10: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-01-17: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-01-24: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-02-07: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-02-14: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-02-21: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-27: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-18: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-29: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-09-05: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-09-12: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-09-19: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-26: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-10-03: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-10-10: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-10-17: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-10-24: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-11-14: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-21: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-12: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-02: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-01-16: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-30: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-02-06: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-20: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-08: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-06-12: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-03: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-07-31: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-07: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-08-14: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-28: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$7.99$5.592025-01-032026-07-092025-01-03 — best price $7.992025-06-27 — best price $6.392025-07-10 — best price $7.992025-09-29 — best price $6.392025-10-06 — best price $7.992026-03-19 — best price $6.392026-03-26 — best price $7.992026-06-25 — best price $5.592026-07-09 — best price $7.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsmacOSSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFamily Sharing1 DLC

1 supported languages: Japanese

Player tags

AnimeIndieModernAdventureText-BasedConversationSingleplayerVisual NovelPhilosophicalChoices Matter

Census log

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

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