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Route8

PLAY Mephistowaltz · 2024-04-03

Steam

IndieSimulation

Modes: Single player

Releases: Apr 03, 2024 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

"You're lost on Route 8. You must find a way to escape. This eerie road is terrifying.""Night falls, the phone rings. Who are you? You find yourself driving along Route 8, repeating endlessly."

Route8 is a 2024 Indie and Simulation game priced at $2.09, with an estimated 0 to 20,000 owners and a Mostly Positive review sentiment (78% of 125 reviews).

78%
positive of 125 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$2.09
steam price (US)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 10 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 44% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (94 reviews).
  • · Top 39% of 36,775 Indie games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 2.5k–5.6k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 125 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

lowest across shops (ITAD)$2.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $0.59 at Steam (2026-02-19)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $2.99 · on sale 9 of 18 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
818120242026Week of 2024-04-01: 81 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$2.99$0.592024-04-042026-09-212024-04-04 — best price $2.692024-05-18 — best price $2.392024-06-27 — best price $2.092024-07-22 — best price $2.092024-09-04 — best price $1.792024-10-19 — best price $1.792024-11-27 — best price $1.492024-12-20 — best price $1.492025-01-31 — best price $1.792025-03-13 — best price $1.492025-06-27 — best price $1.792025-09-05 — best price $2.092025-09-29 — best price $1.792025-10-30 — best price $2.092025-12-18 — best price $1.192026-02-19 — best price $0.592026-03-19 — best price $1.492026-04-09 — best price $2.092026-06-25 — best price $1.792026-07-25 — best price $1.792026-09-07 — best price $2.092026-09-21 — best price $2.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

6
achievements tracked
65.8%
earned "piece one"
7.6%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerFamily Sharing

11 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Russian, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Portuguese - Portugal, Korean

Player tags

IndieHorrorPuzzleMysterySurrealNarrationRealisticSimulationFirst-PersonImmersive Sim

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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