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Secret in Story cover art

Secret in Story

Naivus Luo · 2017-06-19

Steam

AdventureIndie

Modes: Single player

Releases: Oct 21, 2016 (iOS), Jun 19, 2017 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Jun 19, 2017 (Mac)

Accompanied by beautiful piano music, you begin to experience a wonderful love journey. There is no dialogue in the story, only pictures intertwined with montage techniques. Players need to unlock each puzzle to open every door of memory, to find the youth that we have been missing.

Secret in Story is an Adventure, Indie game released in 2017, priced at $0.99, with an estimated 2,000,000 .. 5,000,000 owners and a Mixed sentiment (69% of 114 reviews).

0
playing now
69%
positive of 114 reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
2,000,000–5,000,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$0.99
steam price (US)

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

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 6 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 54% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (26 reviews).
  • · Top 38% of 28,838 Adventure games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-01

Estimated sales: 2.9k–6.8k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 114 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.49 at Steam (2017-10-26) · bundled 1×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $0.99 · on sale 0 of 10 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
191920172026Week of 2017-06-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2017-06-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2017-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2017-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2017-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2017-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2017-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2017-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

202026-09-15 11:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 20:00 — 0 players2026-09-18 03:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 11:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 18:00 — 0 players2026-09-22 02:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 09:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 17:00 — 0 players2026-09-26 00:00 — 0 players2026-09-27 08:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 15:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 23:00 — 0 players2026-10-01 06:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 14:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 22:00 — 0 players2026-10-05 06:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 13:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 21:00 — 0 players2026-10-09 04:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 12:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 19:00 — 0 players2026-10-13 03:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 10:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$0.99$0.492017-06-192026-07-092017-06-19 — best price $0.992017-11-01 — best price $0.992017-11-28 — best price $0.992018-01-04 — best price $0.992019-02-19 — best price $0.992019-11-01 — best price $0.992022-02-21 — best price $0.992022-07-07 — best price $0.992022-08-15 — best price $0.992022-10-03 — best price $0.992022-11-29 — best price $0.992023-02-13 — best price $0.992023-03-23 — best price $0.992023-05-22 — best price $0.992023-07-13 — best price $0.992023-09-04 — best price $0.992024-03-21 — best price $0.992024-04-08 — best price $0.992024-05-20 — best price $0.992024-07-11 — best price $0.992024-08-12 — best price $0.992024-12-04 — best price $0.992025-03-15 — best price $0.892025-07-26 — best price $0.892025-09-29 — best price $0.892025-12-18 — best price $0.892026-03-02 — best price $0.892026-03-19 — best price $0.892026-04-13 — best price $0.892026-07-06 — best price $0.892026-07-09 — best price $0.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

32
achievements tracked
7.5%
earned "Monologue 1"
5.3%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam Trading CardsFamily Sharing

4 supported languages: English, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese

Player tags

IndieAdventureVisual Novel

Census log

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

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