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Profession investigator

Indie-Geek · 2022-07-13

Steam

AdventureIndieSimulation

Modes: Single player

Releases: Jul 13, 2022 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Jul 13, 2022 (Mac)

Profession Investigator is an immersive simulator with a text-based interface in which you have to deal with real criminal cases. The game uses materials from court archives and specialized literature.

99%
positive of 110 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$12.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 24 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~3/week).
  • · Review velocity up 100% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 46% of 20,895 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 2.2k–5.0k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 110 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $5.19 at Steam (2025-12-18)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $12.99 · on sale 1 of 2 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
121220222026Week of 2022-07-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-09-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$12.99$5.192022-07-132026-01-052022-07-13 — best price $12.992022-09-12 — best price $9.092022-09-19 — best price $12.992023-02-20 — best price $9.092023-02-27 — best price $12.992025-12-18 — best price $5.192026-01-05 — best price $12.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsmacOSSingle-playerFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: Russian

Player tags

IndieLogicPuzzleViolentAdventureDetectiveNarrationMinimalistSimulationStory Rich

Census log

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

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