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Retention cover art

Retention

Sometimes You · 2015-01-13

Steam

AdventureCasualIndie

Modes: Single player

Releases: Jan 13, 2015 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

This game is about a person who kept running through his life, never looking back at the past. Once during a trip, he gets into trouble. Now he's lying on the cold ground, buried beneath his bicycle. Slides of various moments fly through his head.

Retention is an Adventure, Casual, and Indie game released in 2015, priced at $0.49, with an estimated 100,000 .. 200,000 owners and a Mostly Negative review sentiment (36% of 707 reviews).

2
playing now
36%
positive of 707 reviews
Mostly Negative
steam's rating (official)
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
40/100
IGDB user rating (3 ratings)
borked
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$0.49
steam price (US)

2 players in-game as of 2026-10-15 07:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 2 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 13 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity up 117% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 16% of 29,019 Adventure games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-31

Estimated sales: 18k–42k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 707 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.49 at Steam (2015-06-11) · bundled 11×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $0.99 · on sale 9 of 17 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
3320162026Week of 2016-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2016-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 2 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

7102026-09-15 16:00 — 71 players2026-09-17 01:00 — 3 players2026-09-18 08:00 — 1 players2026-09-19 16:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 23:00 — 0 players2026-09-22 07:00 — 1 players2026-09-23 14:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 22:00 — 0 players2026-09-26 05:00 — 2 players2026-09-27 13:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 20:00 — 0 players2026-09-30 04:00 — 0 players2026-10-01 11:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 19:00 — 1 players2026-10-04 03:00 — 0 players2026-10-05 11:00 — 3 players2026-10-06 18:00 — 1 players2026-10-08 02:00 — 1 players2026-10-09 09:00 — 3 players2026-10-10 17:00 — 1 players2026-10-12 00:00 — 0 players2026-10-13 08:00 — 1 players2026-10-14 15:00 — 0 players2026-10-15 07:00 — 2 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$2.99$0.492015-01-012026-08-242015-01-01 — best price $2.992015-06-22 — best price $0.992015-12-01 — best price $0.992016-04-27 — best price $0.692016-07-11 — best price $0.692016-11-29 — best price $0.992017-04-06 — best price $0.592017-07-17 — best price $0.592017-11-16 — best price $0.542018-02-12 — best price $0.992018-05-24 — best price $0.992018-10-22 — best price $0.992019-01-10 — best price $0.592019-05-10 — best price $0.692019-11-21 — best price $0.542019-12-19 — best price $0.492020-01-23 — best price $0.492020-05-18 — best price $0.992020-09-14 — best price $0.492021-01-05 — best price $0.992021-04-26 — best price $0.992021-09-20 — best price $0.992022-01-05 — best price $0.992022-04-11 — best price $0.992022-07-25 — best price $0.992022-11-22 — best price $0.512023-01-16 — best price $0.992023-04-03 — best price $0.992023-07-13 — best price $0.992023-11-28 — best price $0.992024-03-11 — best price $0.992024-07-14 — best price $0.992024-11-25 — best price $0.992025-02-24 — best price $0.992025-07-10 — best price $0.992025-11-24 — best price $0.992026-04-06 — best price $0.992026-08-24 — best price $0.49
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam Trading CardsFamily Sharing

5 supported languages: English, Italian, Russian, Turkish, French

Player tags

2DIndieShortCasualPuzzleLife SimAdventureMinimalistSimulationExploration

Census log

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

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