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Provisional Detective

SteefMakesGames · 2022-02-24

Steam

IndieFree To Play

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: First person

Releases: Feb 24, 2022 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

A first-person mystery solving game, where you try to find out what happened at Syn Archives.

0
playing now
75%
positive of 12 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
Free
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-09-18 02:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 10 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity up 900% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 94% of 28,840 Indie games in the census by review count.

All-time low: $1.39 at Steam (2023-06-29)via IsThereAnyDeal

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
2220232026Week of 2023-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$1.99$0.002022-02-242024-05-302022-02-24 — best price $1.792022-03-03 — best price $1.992022-03-31 — best price $1.692022-04-07 — best price $1.992022-05-30 — best price $1.692022-06-06 — best price $1.992022-06-24 — best price $1.692022-07-07 — best price $1.992022-08-29 — best price $1.592022-09-05 — best price $1.992022-10-13 — best price $1.492022-10-27 — best price $1.992022-11-22 — best price $1.592022-11-29 — best price $1.992022-12-23 — best price $1.592023-02-27 — best price $1.992023-03-16 — best price $1.592023-03-23 — best price $1.992023-06-12 — best price $1.492023-06-19 — best price $1.992023-06-29 — best price $1.392023-07-13 — best price $1.992023-11-21 — best price $1.392023-11-28 — best price $1.992024-05-30 — best price $0.00
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

4
achievements tracked
49%
earned "Bad Ending"
47.4%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsPartial Controller SupportFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Player tags

3DIndieSci-fiMysteryAdventureDetectiveStory RichExplorationConversationFirst-Person

Census log

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

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