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Socrates Jones: Pro Philosopher

Intelligible Games · 2023-03-28

Steam

AdventureIndieFree To Play

Modes: Single player

Releases: Mar 28, 2023 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Aug 20, 2013 (Web browser), Mar 28, 2023 (Mac)

Debate for your life against brilliant thinkers, poke holes in their arguments and cause them to freak out— or just tell them their faces are ugly. NONSENSE!

97%
positive of 322 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Verified
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
Free
steam price (US)
Socrates Jones: Pro Philosopher is an educational point-and-click visual novel that was developed by a group of students and faculty at Carnegie Mellon University and released on Kongregate, with a later rerelease on Steam. The eponymous player character Socrates Jones debates historical philosophers to unravel the nature of morality. The game was inspired by Ace Attorney, from which it borrows a number of core mechanics.

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 62 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~8/week).
  • · Review velocity up 55% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 24% of 27,578 Adventure games in the census by review count.

Review momentum

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Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Attention

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

Completion

8
achievements tracked
82.1%
earned "Oh, Deer"
57.4%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam CloudFamily Sharing1 DLC

1 supported languages: English

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2023-03-27 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)20373%8

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Census log

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