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Night Book cover art

Night Book

Wales Interactive · 2021-07-27

SteamPlayStation StoreEpic Games StoreMicrosoft Store

Adventure

Modes: Single player

Releases: Jul 27, 2021 (Nintendo Switch), Jul 27, 2021 (PlayStation 4), Jul 27, 2021 (PlayStation 5), Jul 27, 2021 (Xbox One), Jul 27, 2021 (Xbox Series X|S), Jul 27, 2021 (Mac)

Tricked into reading an ancient book, Loralyn summons a demon into her home. Night Book is an interactive occult thriller movie, created in lockdown, from the publishers of The Complex, Five Dates and Maid of Sker.

68%
positive of 603 reviews
Mixed
steam rating
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
64/100
IGDB user rating (6 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$14.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 32 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~4/week).
  • · Review velocity down 30% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 38% of 11,325 Adventure games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-26

Estimated sales: 12k–27k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 603 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

lowest across shops (ITAD)$12.99
Microsoft Store$12.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $2.54 at Steam (2024-05-22) · bundled 2×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $14.99 · on sale 28 of 53 observed days · $10.45 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
343420212026Week of 2021-07-01: 30 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 25 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 34 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$14.99$2.542021-07-132026-08-272021-07-13 — best price $11.692021-09-16 — best price $10.392021-12-09 — best price $9.092022-02-10 — best price $12.992022-05-09 — best price $5.192022-08-06 — best price $12.992022-10-25 — best price $4.802022-12-02 — best price $12.992023-02-07 — best price $12.992023-03-23 — best price $12.992023-05-18 — best price $9.092023-07-07 — best price $12.992023-08-19 — best price $4.792023-10-18 — best price $4.042023-11-21 — best price $5.992024-01-10 — best price $12.992024-02-28 — best price $14.992024-04-12 — best price $14.992024-06-13 — best price $12.992024-07-27 — best price $2.542024-10-18 — best price $6.492024-11-27 — best price $2.542025-01-23 — best price $4.342025-03-11 — best price $12.992025-04-16 — best price $14.992025-05-28 — best price $12.992025-06-27 — best price $4.492025-09-13 — best price $2.542025-10-09 — best price $12.992025-11-11 — best price $12.992026-01-05 — best price $14.992026-02-13 — best price $2.542026-03-19 — best price $2.542026-04-30 — best price $5.192026-06-12 — best price $2.542026-08-08 — best price $14.992026-08-27 — best price $12.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

17
achievements tracked
70.6%
earned "Will This Help?"
30.7%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportFamily Sharing

10 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
PS4 (PlayStation)1,33475%18
Steam (Steam)68629%17
Xbox One (Xbox)66161%17
PS5 (PlayStation)32479%18
Switch (Nintendo)10%0

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

Player tags

FMVDramaHorrorMysteryThrillerAdventureDetectiveStory RichVisual NovelInvestigation

Census log

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

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