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Photographs cover art

Photographs

EightyEight Games · 2019-04-03

Steam

AdventureCasualIndieSimulation

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Side view

Releases: Apr 03, 2019 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Feb 28, 2019 (iOS), Feb 28, 2019 (Android)

Photographs is a Narrative Tragedy Puzzle Game? What the hell does that mean

Photographs is an Adventure, Casual, Indie, and Simulation game released in 2019, priced at $11.99, with an estimated owner base of 20,000 .. 50,000 and a Very Positive review sentiment (84% of 165 reviews).

3
playing now
84%
positive of 165 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
80/100
critic score (2 outlets, IGDB)
50/100
IGDB user rating (2 ratings)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$11.99
steam price (US)

3 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 07:00 UTC (census sample)

Photographs is a puzzle game by British developer Luca Redwood under EightyEightGames, released for iOS and Microsoft Windows devices in April 2019.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 3 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 12 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity down 8% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 32% of 28,763 Adventure games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-01

Estimated sales: 4.1k–9.9k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 165 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $1.19 at Steam (2020-03-16)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $11.99 · on sale 1 of 2 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
212120192026Week of 2019-04-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2019-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-06-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

502026-09-15 08:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 16:00 — 0 players2026-09-18 00:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 07:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 15:00 — 0 players2026-09-21 23:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 06:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 14:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 21:00 — 0 players2026-09-27 05:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 12:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 20:00 — 0 players2026-10-01 03:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 11:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 19:00 — 0 players2026-10-05 03:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 10:00 — 1 players2026-10-07 18:00 — 3 players2026-10-09 01:00 — 5 players2026-10-10 09:00 — 4 players2026-10-11 16:00 — 4 players2026-10-13 00:00 — 4 players2026-10-14 07:00 — 3 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$11.99$1.192019-04-032026-01-052019-04-03 — best price $9.592019-04-10 — best price $11.992019-06-25 — best price $8.392019-07-09 — best price $11.992019-10-14 — best price $7.192019-10-21 — best price $11.992019-10-28 — best price $7.192019-11-01 — best price $11.992019-11-26 — best price $5.992019-12-03 — best price $11.992019-12-19 — best price $5.992020-01-02 — best price $11.992020-03-16 — best price $1.192020-03-23 — best price $11.992020-06-25 — best price $5.992020-07-09 — best price $11.992020-12-22 — best price $4.792021-01-05 — best price $11.992021-06-28 — best price $4.072021-07-08 — best price $11.992021-10-29 — best price $5.992021-11-01 — best price $11.992021-11-24 — best price $5.992021-12-01 — best price $11.992021-12-22 — best price $5.992022-01-05 — best price $11.992022-06-23 — best price $4.072022-07-07 — best price $11.992022-11-23 — best price $5.992022-11-29 — best price $11.992024-06-27 — best price $3.592024-07-11 — best price $11.992024-11-27 — best price $3.592024-12-04 — best price $11.992025-03-14 — best price $5.992025-03-20 — best price $11.992025-06-26 — best price $4.792025-07-10 — best price $11.992025-12-18 — best price $4.072026-01-05 — best price $11.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

702026-06-01 — 2 pageviews2026-06-05 — 2 pageviews2026-06-10 — 3 pageviews2026-06-14 — 4 pageviews2026-06-18 — 0 pageviews2026-06-22 — 3 pageviews2026-06-26 — 1 pageviews2026-06-30 — 2 pageviews2026-07-04 — 1 pageviews2026-07-08 — 2 pageviews2026-07-12 — 0 pageviews2026-07-16 — 2 pageviews2026-07-20 — 3 pageviews2026-07-24 — 4 pageviews2026-07-28 — 6 pageviews2026-08-01 — 4 pageviews2026-08-05 — 4 pageviews2026-08-09 — 2 pageviews2026-08-13 — 5 pageviews2026-08-17 — 1 pageviews2026-08-22 — 1 pageviews2026-08-26 — 0 pageviews2026-08-31 — 0 pageviews2026-09-04 — 3 pageviews2026-09-08 — 4 pageviews2026-09-12 — 7 pageviews2026-09-16 — 4 pageviews2026-09-20 — 2 pageviews2026-09-24 — 2 pageviews2026-09-28 — 1 pageviews2026-10-02 — 1 pageviews2026-10-07 — 0 pageviews2026-10-11 — 1 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerFamily Sharing

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

Player tags

2DDarkIndieRetroCasualPuzzleAdventureNarrationSimulationStory Rich

Census log

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

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