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Rivals

Owlskip Games · 2020-09-21

Steam

Indie

Modes: Single player

Releases: Sep 21, 2020 (Mac), Sep 21, 2020 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

A deep and immersive narrative puzzle game.

100%
positive of 56 reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$5.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 15 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity up 50% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 69% of 20,883 Indie games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 1.1k–2.5k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 56 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.99 at Steam (2025-02-28) · bundled 2×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $5.99 · on sale 2 of 5 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
5520202026Week of 2020-09-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$5.99$0.992020-09-212026-07-092020-09-21 — best price $5.992025-02-28 — best price $0.992026-01-26 — best price $5.992026-03-19 — best price $4.492026-03-26 — best price $5.992026-06-25 — best price $4.792026-07-09 — best price $5.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerFamily Sharing

Player tags

2DIndiePuzzleStory RichSingleplayerVisual NovelInvestigation

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.