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Shady Brook - A Dark Mystery Text Adventure

Storycentric Worlds · Unimatrix Productions · 2016-10-24

Steam

AdventureCasualIndieRPG

Modes: Single player

Releases: Aug 23, 2016 (iOS), Oct 24, 2016 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Explore a small country town with a twisted secret in this dark, Twin Peaks-inspired mystery text adventure that combines the best elements of classic interactive fiction, visual novels, and gamebooks.

82%
positive of 17 reviews
Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
$2.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 6 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 25% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 85% of 24,154 Adventure games in the census by review count.

Review momentum

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3320162026Week of 2016-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam Trading CardsCaptions availableFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

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