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Shadows on the Vatican: Nightingale

Binary Charm · 2021-07-27

Steam

Adventure

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Text

Releases: Jul 27, 2021 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Writing on a blog and using her obscure ability, the mysterious Nightingale has been helping people in danger for years. Now, she’s forced to disappear, facing threats from a killer... one of those people she helped in the past. An interactive short story featuring an advanced navigation UI.

Shadows on the Vatican: Nightingale is an Adventure game released in 2021, priced at $2.99, with a Positive review sentiment (88% of 42 reviews) and an owner estimate of 20,000 .. 50,000.

0
playing now
88%
positive of 42 reviews
Positive
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$2.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 09:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 9 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 18% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 58% of 28,764 Adventure games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-02

All-time low: $1.49 at Steam (2024-12-20)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $2.99 · on sale 3 of 6 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
4420212026Week of 2021-08-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

002026-09-15 10:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 18:00 — 0 players2026-09-18 01:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 09:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 17:00 — 0 players2026-09-22 00:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 08:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 15:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 23:00 — 0 players2026-09-27 06:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 14:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 21:00 — 0 players2026-10-01 05:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 12:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 20:00 — 0 players2026-10-05 04:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 12:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 19:00 — 0 players2026-10-09 03:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 10:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 18:00 — 0 players2026-10-13 02:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 09:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$2.99$1.492021-07-272026-07-092021-07-27 — best price $2.692021-10-28 — best price $2.542021-11-24 — best price $2.542021-12-13 — best price $2.392021-12-23 — best price $2.542022-01-27 — best price $2.542022-03-07 — best price $2.392022-05-30 — best price $2.392022-06-23 — best price $2.392022-07-25 — best price $2.392022-10-31 — best price $2.242022-11-22 — best price $2.392022-12-12 — best price $2.092022-12-22 — best price $2.242023-02-21 — best price $2.242023-03-16 — best price $2.242023-05-22 — best price $2.092023-06-29 — best price $2.242023-07-27 — best price $2.092023-12-21 — best price $2.092024-01-23 — best price $1.942024-03-04 — best price $2.092024-03-14 — best price $2.242024-04-17 — best price $2.092024-05-29 — best price $2.092024-06-27 — best price $2.092024-07-27 — best price $1.792024-11-21 — best price $1.792024-11-27 — best price $1.942024-12-20 — best price $1.492025-01-13 — best price $2.092025-02-24 — best price $2.392025-03-13 — best price $2.542025-05-06 — best price $2.092025-09-30 — best price $2.092026-03-19 — best price $1.792026-05-20 — best price $1.792026-06-26 — best price $1.942026-07-09 — best price $2.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

12
achievements tracked
60.4%
earned "Audere Semper"
37.9%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam CloudFamily Sharing1 DLC

2 supported languages: English, Italian

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2021-08-10 (Steam store data)

Player tags

DarkCrimeDramaThrillerAdventureEmotionalNarrationText-BasedAtmosphericSingleplayer

Census log

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

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