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Sinking Island cover art

Sinking Island

White Birds Productions · Microids · 2014-12-05

SteamGOG

Adventure

Modes: Single player

Releases: Aug 25, 2008 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Walter Jones, a billionaire had planned on opening up a resort for the rich and famous, but was killed before his dream could be achieved. It's up to Detective Jack Norm to crack the case by interviewing the people on Sinking Island to get valuable clues. A game from Benoit Sokal.

0
playing now
70%
positive of 282 reviews
Mixed
steam rating
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
54/100
IGDB user rating (12 ratings)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$7.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 06:00 UTC (census sample)

Sinking Island is a third-person perspective adventure game that uses point and click game mechanics. It was released in France on October 4, 2007, and in the United States on August 12, 2008. It was developed by White Birds Productions, a company founded and led by Benoît Sokal.

Health check

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  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 50% of 11,362 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 7.0k–17k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 282 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

GOG$1.59-80%
Steam$1.59-80%
GOG$1.59-80%
lowest across shops (ITAD)$1.59-80%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $0.35 at GameBillet (2021-07-02) · bundled 7×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $7.99 · on sale 75 of 127 observed days · $1.24 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Players online

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Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$10.81$0.632015-01-012026-08-302015-01-01 — best price $3.192015-09-02 — best price $9.952016-05-02 — best price $1.992017-03-13 — best price $1.592018-02-15 — best price $2.952018-12-12 — best price $7.992019-06-26 — best price $1.992020-01-10 — best price $6.352020-05-22 — best price $7.192020-08-03 — best price $0.672020-10-04 — best price $7.992020-12-07 — best price $0.672021-03-09 — best price $0.672021-05-11 — best price $5.872021-07-21 — best price $5.872021-09-14 — best price $7.192021-11-16 — best price $7.992022-02-05 — best price $5.872022-04-06 — best price $0.792022-06-06 — best price $7.192022-10-27 — best price $0.792023-02-10 — best price $7.182023-06-29 — best price $0.792023-10-30 — best price $1.592024-01-29 — best price $7.992024-04-17 — best price $1.192024-08-01 — best price $7.992024-10-10 — best price $1.062025-01-11 — best price $7.992025-04-15 — best price $1.592025-07-11 — best price $7.992025-10-08 — best price $7.992026-01-03 — best price $7.992026-03-20 — best price $7.912026-06-13 — best price $6.872026-08-30 — best price $1.59
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

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Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerFamily Sharing

4 supported languages: English, French, Italian, Russian

Player tags

PuzzleMysteryAdventureDetectiveAtmosphericPoint & Click

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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