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Philophobia: The Fear of Love cover art

Philophobia: The Fear of Love

Tim Ruswick · 2020-02-10

Steam

ActionIndie

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Side view

Releases: Feb 10, 2019 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Feb 10, 2019 (Mac), Feb 10, 2019 (Linux)

Love is Hell. In this precision platformer based on the 5 stages of grief, navigate the bowels of Hell and escape the torment of love.

96%
positive of 69 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
70/100
IGDB user rating (1 ratings)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$11.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 7 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 81% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (31 reviews).
  • · Top 50% of 22,860 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 1.4k–3.1k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 69 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $7.19 at Steam (2021-12-22)via IsThereAnyDeal

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
292920202023Week of 2020-02-01: 29 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$11.99$7.192019-02-112022-07-072019-02-11 — best price $9.992019-02-15 — best price $11.992020-02-10 — best price $9.592020-02-17 — best price $11.992020-06-25 — best price $9.592020-07-09 — best price $11.992021-06-24 — best price $8.392021-07-08 — best price $11.992021-10-28 — best price $8.392021-11-01 — best price $11.992021-11-24 — best price $7.792021-12-01 — best price $11.992021-12-22 — best price $7.192022-01-05 — best price $11.992022-06-23 — best price $7.192022-07-07 — best price $11.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam CloudFamily Sharing

Player tags

2DActionDemonsMysteryStylizedDifficultPlatformerAtmosphericUnforgiving2D Platformer

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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