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SEASON: A letter to the future

Scavengers Studio · 2023-01-31

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AdventureCasualIndie

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Third person

Releases: Jan 31, 2023 (PlayStation 4), Jan 31, 2023 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Jan 31, 2023 (PlayStation 5)

Leave home for the first time to collect memories before a mysterious cataclysm washes everything away. Ride, record, meet people, and unravel the strange world around you in this third-person meditative exploration game.

1
playing now
93%
positive of 2.1k reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
80/100
critic score (4 outlets, IGDB)
76/100
IGDB user rating (13 ratings)
3.90★
PlayStation Store rating (2,086 ratings)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Verified
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$24.99
steam price (US)

1 players in-game as of 2026-10-15 06:00 UTC (census sample)

Season: A Letter to the Future is a 2023 adventure game developed and published by Scavengers Studio. The player controls a young woman from a small village documenting the world as it comes to an end. The game was released in January 2023 for PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, and Windows.

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 1 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 124 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~16/week).
  • · Review velocity up 65% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (568 reviews).
  • · Top 9% of 29,427 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 42k–94k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 2,088 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $11.24 at Steam (2024-09-07) · bundled 2×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $24.99 · on sale 6 of 13 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
53053020232026Week of 2023-01-01: 36 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 530 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 38 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 109 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 39 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 32 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 54 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 69 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 47 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 44 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 148 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 41 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 40 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 34 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 33 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 29 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 30 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 42 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 35 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 26 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 7 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

1002026-09-16 08:00 — 5 players2026-09-17 16:00 — 2 players2026-09-18 23:00 — 2 players2026-09-20 07:00 — 1 players2026-09-21 14:00 — 3 players2026-09-22 22:00 — 3 players2026-09-24 05:00 — 2 players2026-09-25 13:00 — 1 players2026-09-26 20:00 — 5 players2026-09-28 04:00 — 2 players2026-09-29 11:00 — 5 players2026-09-30 19:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 02:00 — 4 players2026-10-03 10:00 — 8 players2026-10-04 18:00 — 7 players2026-10-06 02:00 — 2 players2026-10-07 09:00 — 8 players2026-10-08 17:00 — 6 players2026-10-10 00:00 — 2 players2026-10-11 08:00 — 6 players2026-10-12 15:00 — 7 players2026-10-13 23:00 — 5 players2026-10-15 06:00 — 1 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
972Feb 2023Aug 2026Feb 2023 — avg 97 · peak 438Apr 2023 — avg 13 · peak 36Jun 2023 — avg 15 · peak 68Aug 2023 — avg 14 · peak 43Oct 2023 — avg 8 · peak 26Dec 2023 — avg 12 · peak 34Feb 2024 — avg 9 · peak 33Apr 2024 — avg 10 · peak 33Jun 2024 — avg 7 · peak 35Aug 2024 — avg 5 · peak 16Oct 2024 — avg 5 · peak 16Dec 2024 — avg 4 · peak 13Feb 2025 — avg 4 · peak 13Apr 2025 — avg 3 · peak 10Jun 2025 — avg 4 · peak 13Aug 2025 — avg 3 · peak 11Nov 2025 — avg 3 · peak 10Jan 2026 — avg 3 · peak 12Mar 2026 — avg 5 · peak 16May 2026 — avg 4 · peak 15Jul 2026 — avg 7 · peak 18Aug 2026 — avg 4 · peak 17
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$24.99$11.242023-01-312026-09-292023-01-31 — best price $22.492023-02-07 — best price $24.992023-03-23 — best price $24.992023-04-20 — best price $24.992023-06-01 — best price $17.492023-06-15 — best price $24.992023-07-13 — best price $24.992023-08-14 — best price $24.992023-09-25 — best price $16.242023-09-30 — best price $24.992023-11-06 — best price $24.992023-11-28 — best price $24.992023-12-21 — best price $14.992024-01-10 — best price $24.992024-02-05 — best price $24.992024-03-14 — best price $13.742024-04-08 — best price $13.742024-05-20 — best price $13.742024-05-28 — best price $13.742024-06-27 — best price $12.492024-09-07 — best price $11.242026-02-09 — best price $14.992026-03-19 — best price $14.992026-04-08 — best price $14.992026-05-24 — best price $12.492026-06-25 — best price $12.492026-07-15 — best price $12.492026-09-29 — best price $24.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

81172026-06-02 — 31 pageviews2026-06-06 — 28 pageviews2026-06-10 — 75 pageviews2026-06-14 — 44 pageviews2026-06-18 — 50 pageviews2026-06-22 — 58 pageviews2026-06-26 — 53 pageviews2026-06-30 — 35 pageviews2026-07-04 — 35 pageviews2026-07-08 — 30 pageviews2026-07-12 — 43 pageviews2026-07-16 — 45 pageviews2026-07-20 — 20 pageviews2026-07-24 — 38 pageviews2026-07-28 — 30 pageviews2026-08-01 — 29 pageviews2026-08-05 — 32 pageviews2026-08-09 — 26 pageviews2026-08-13 — 20 pageviews2026-08-17 — 24 pageviews2026-08-21 — 20 pageviews2026-08-25 — 24 pageviews2026-08-29 — 49 pageviews2026-09-02 — 30 pageviews2026-09-06 — 42 pageviews2026-09-10 — 19 pageviews2026-09-14 — 31 pageviews2026-09-18 — 26 pageviews2026-09-22 — 36 pageviews2026-09-26 — 17 pageviews2026-09-30 — 36 pageviews2026-10-04 — 37 pageviews2026-10-08 — 20 pageviews2026-10-11 — 41 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

16
achievements tracked
83.5%
earned "Home Leaver"
22.2%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam CloudFamily Sharing1 DLC

8 supported languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Portuguese - Brazil, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2023-01-31 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)81323%16

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Where its players are

Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.

Player tags

DramaMysteryRelaxingStylizedAdventureEmotionalNarrativeOpen WorldAtmosphericExploration

Census log

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

Recent updates

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Similarity via IGDB.

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