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Sethian

Duang! Games, LLC · 2016-11-09

Steam

Indie

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Side view

Releases: Nov 09, 2016 (Mac), Nov 09, 2016 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Sethian is a sci-fi puzzle game in which you master a fictitious language. The only surviving speaker is an ancient computer. Does it hold the answers behind the disappearance of the Sethianese people?

Sethian is an Indie game released in 2016, priced at $4.99, with an estimated 20,000 to 50,000 owners and a Mixed review sentiment (66% of 169 reviews).

0
playing now
66%
positive of 169 reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
70/100
IGDB user rating (0 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$4.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 07:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 19 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity up 19% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 27% of 49,650 Indie games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-01

Estimated sales: 4.2k–10k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 169 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $3.99 at Steam (2016-12-22)via IsThereAnyDeal

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
111120162026Week of 2016-11-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2016-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-12-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2016-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2017-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

202026-09-15 08:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 16:00 — 0 players2026-09-18 00:00 — 1 players2026-09-19 07:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 15:00 — 0 players2026-09-21 23:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 06:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 14:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 21:00 — 0 players2026-09-27 05:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 12:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 20:00 — 0 players2026-10-01 03:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 11:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 19:00 — 1 players2026-10-05 03:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 10:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 18:00 — 0 players2026-10-09 01:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 09:00 — 1 players2026-10-11 16:00 — 1 players2026-10-13 00:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 07:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Details

WindowsmacOSSingle-playerFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Player tags

IndiePuzzleSci-fi

Census log

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

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