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Some Distant Memory

Galvanic Games · Way Down Deep · 2019-11-14

Steam

AdventureCasualIndie

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Side view

Releases: Nov 13, 2019 (Nintendo Switch), Nov 14, 2019 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Nov 14, 2019 (Mac)

A hand-drawn story exploration game set 300 years after the apocalypse. You play an archaeologist named Professor Zay, joined by her companion, ARORA, a centuries-old AI capable of recreating human memories from scanned relics.

94%
positive of 309 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
70/100
IGDB user rating (5 ratings)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$12.99
steam price (US)

300 years after the world ended, hope of recovering the past is all but gone. You're tasked with finding the sunken city of Houston by ARORA, a powerful AI capable of rebuilding memories from left behind artifacts, in hopes of finding answers before it's too late.(Storyline via IGDB)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 14 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity down 18% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 29% of 23,110 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 7.7k–19k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 309 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $1.29 at Steam (2024-04-22) · bundled 2×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $12.99 · on sale 3 of 7 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
121220192026Week of 2019-11-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-12-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-02-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$12.99$1.292019-11-142026-07-092019-11-14 — best price $11.692019-12-18 — best price $12.992020-01-02 — best price $12.992020-01-23 — best price $9.742020-02-14 — best price $8.702020-04-17 — best price $7.792020-06-25 — best price $7.142020-10-29 — best price $5.192020-11-25 — best price $5.192020-12-22 — best price $3.242021-02-11 — best price $5.192021-04-12 — best price $3.892021-06-24 — best price $3.242021-11-01 — best price $12.992021-12-01 — best price $12.992021-12-23 — best price $12.992022-01-05 — best price $12.992022-03-21 — best price $6.492022-05-06 — best price $6.492022-05-31 — best price $12.992022-07-07 — best price $12.992022-09-06 — best price $12.992022-11-18 — best price $12.992022-11-29 — best price $12.992023-01-05 — best price $12.992023-02-07 — best price $12.992023-02-17 — best price $12.992023-03-23 — best price $12.992023-11-28 — best price $12.992024-01-04 — best price $12.992024-03-21 — best price $12.992024-04-29 — best price $12.992024-07-11 — best price $12.992024-12-04 — best price $12.992025-01-02 — best price $12.992025-07-10 — best price $12.992025-10-06 — best price $12.992026-01-05 — best price $12.992026-03-26 — best price $12.992026-07-09 — best price $12.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsmacOSFull controller supportSingle-playerFull controller supportSteam CloudFamily Sharing1 DLC

6 supported languages: English, German, Japanese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish - Spain

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2019-11-19 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Switch (Nintendo)0—0

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

Player tags

2.5DIndieShortCasualSci-fiMysteryAdventureHand-drawnStory RichAtmospheric

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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