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Secret Files: Sam Peters cover art

Secret Files: Sam Peters

Animation Arts · Ravenscourt · 2013-10-18

SteamGOG

Adventure

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Side view

Releases: Sep 05, 2013 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Oct 10, 2019 (Nintendo Switch), Oct 29, 2014 (iOS), Jan 13, 2015 (Android)

Bigfoot, the Abominable Snowman, the Loch Ness Monster - cryptozoologists are trying to track these creatures down and research them. One also appears in the legends of the Ashanti people in Ghana. These tell of human-like creatures that lurk in the trees at night and take their victims off to their caves to suck their blood: the...

Secret Files: Sam Peters is an Adventure game released in 2013, priced at $9.99, with an estimated 50,000 .. 100,000 owners and a Mostly Positive review sentiment (72% of 236 reviews).

3
playing now
72%
positive of 236 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
70/100
IGDB user rating (9 ratings)
2.5h
time to beat (IGDB)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$9.99
steam price (US)

3 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 19:00 UTC (census sample)

Secret Files: Sam Peters is a graphic adventure video game developed by Animation Arts and published by Deep Silver for Windows, iOS, Android, and Nintendo Switch. As a spin-off of the Secret Files trilogy, it is a short adventure game based on the eponymous character who first appeared in Secret Files 2: Puritas Cordis.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 3 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 11 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 27% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 27% of 29,025 Adventure games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-01

Estimated sales: 9.4k–19k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 236 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

GOG$0.99-90%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $0.99 at GOG (2023-06-11)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $9.99 · on sale 69 of 98 observed days · at its all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
5520142026Week of 2014-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2014-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2014-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2014-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2014-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2014-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2014-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2015-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2015-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2015-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2015-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2016-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2016-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2017-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2017-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2017-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

302026-09-15 20:00 — 0 players2026-09-17 04:00 — 1 players2026-09-18 11:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 19:00 — 3 players2026-09-21 02:00 — 0 players2026-09-22 10:00 — 2 players2026-09-23 18:00 — 1 players2026-09-25 01:00 — 0 players2026-09-26 09:00 — 0 players2026-09-27 16:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 00:00 — 0 players2026-09-30 07:00 — 0 players2026-10-01 15:00 — 1 players2026-10-02 22:00 — 0 players2026-10-04 06:00 — 0 players2026-10-05 14:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 21:00 — 1 players2026-10-08 05:00 — 0 players2026-10-09 12:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 20:00 — 2 players2026-10-12 04:00 — 0 players2026-10-13 11:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 19:00 — 3 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$12.42$0.992015-01-012026-10-152015-01-01 — best price $4.992015-03-18 — best price $9.662015-05-05 — best price $5.502015-07-14 — best price $5.422015-11-27 — best price $9.992016-04-10 — best price $2.812016-07-30 — best price $2.492017-03-03 — best price $9.992017-08-14 — best price $2.502018-01-04 — best price $9.992018-06-20 — best price $2.492018-12-01 — best price $9.992019-08-30 — best price $9.992020-01-24 — best price $3.392020-04-21 — best price $8.892020-07-28 — best price $8.892020-09-27 — best price $9.992020-11-19 — best price $9.992021-01-12 — best price $8.382021-03-05 — best price $8.382021-04-22 — best price $9.992021-06-02 — best price $8.382021-11-03 — best price $9.992022-05-26 — best price $8.382022-12-19 — best price $9.992023-07-27 — best price $9.992024-03-20 — best price $0.992024-11-14 — best price $0.992025-05-18 — best price $9.992025-11-05 — best price $9.992026-04-09 — best price $0.992026-09-01 — best price $0.992026-09-26 — best price $0.992026-10-15 — best price $0.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

1902026-05-31 — 7 pageviews2026-06-04 — 11 pageviews2026-06-08 — 2 pageviews2026-06-12 — 10 pageviews2026-06-16 — 4 pageviews2026-06-20 — 2 pageviews2026-06-24 — 5 pageviews2026-06-28 — 9 pageviews2026-07-02 — 9 pageviews2026-07-06 — 7 pageviews2026-07-10 — 5 pageviews2026-07-14 — 8 pageviews2026-07-18 — 11 pageviews2026-07-22 — 19 pageviews2026-07-26 — 6 pageviews2026-07-30 — 6 pageviews2026-08-03 — 7 pageviews2026-08-07 — 2 pageviews2026-08-11 — 5 pageviews2026-08-15 — 10 pageviews2026-08-19 — 7 pageviews2026-08-23 — 2 pageviews2026-08-27 — 7 pageviews2026-08-31 — 2 pageviews2026-09-04 — 4 pageviews2026-09-08 — 6 pageviews2026-09-12 — 5 pageviews2026-09-16 — 6 pageviews2026-09-20 — 11 pageviews2026-09-24 — 5 pageviews2026-09-28 — 8 pageviews2026-10-02 — 5 pageviews2026-10-06 — 2 pageviews2026-10-10 — 6 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Switch (Nintendo)10%0

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

Player tags

PuzzleAdventureEscape RoomSingleplayerPoint & ClickFemale Protagonist

Census log

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

Players also track

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Similarity via IGDB.

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