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Someday You'll Return: Director's Cut cover art

Someday You'll Return: Director's Cut

CBE software · Bohemia Interactive · 2023-03-07

SteamPlayStation Store

AdventureIndie

Modes: Single player

Releases: Mar 07, 2023 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Mar 07, 2023 (PlayStation 5), Mar 07, 2023 (PlayStation 4)

How far would you go if your daughter didn’t come home? Someday You’ll Return: Director’s Cut is a first-person psychological horror. This story-driven game offers enhanced features, an improved story, and additional content. Enter the woods if you dare and begin a search you’ll never forget.

85%
positive of 301 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
4.11★
PlayStation Store rating (420 ratings)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$19.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 48 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~6/week).
  • · Review velocity up 12% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 31% of 21,170 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 6.0k–14k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 301 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $1.99 at Steam (2024-12-19)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $19.99 · on sale 10 of 20 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
222220232026Week of 2023-03-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-09-01: 5 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$19.99$1.992023-03-072026-09-072023-03-07 — best price $19.992023-04-17 — best price $19.992023-06-05 — best price $19.992023-07-13 — best price $19.992023-11-02 — best price $19.992023-11-28 — best price $19.992024-01-04 — best price $19.992024-01-29 — best price $19.992024-03-21 — best price $19.992024-04-22 — best price $19.992024-06-03 — best price $19.992024-07-25 — best price $19.992024-09-19 — best price $19.992024-11-04 — best price $19.992024-12-04 — best price $19.992025-01-02 — best price $19.992025-01-27 — best price $19.992025-03-10 — best price $19.992025-03-20 — best price $19.992025-05-09 — best price $19.992025-06-22 — best price $19.992025-07-10 — best price $19.992025-08-09 — best price $19.992025-09-25 — best price $19.992025-10-06 — best price $19.992025-11-03 — best price $19.992026-01-05 — best price $19.992026-01-28 — best price $19.992026-03-11 — best price $19.992026-03-26 — best price $19.992026-04-24 — best price $19.992026-07-09 — best price $19.992026-07-27 — best price $19.992026-09-07 — best price $19.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

52
achievements tracked
80.1%
earned "The Journey Started"
15.1%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam Trading CardsDualShock Controller SupportDualSense Controller SupportSteam CloudFamily Sharing

8 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Czech, Japanese, Portuguese - Brazil

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
PS5 (PlayStation)3385%53
Steam (Steam)2323%52
PS4 (PlayStation)20%53
PS4 (PlayStation)20%53

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

Player tags

DarkHorrorPuzzleMysteryStealthSurrealCraftingThrillerAdventureRealistic

Census log

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

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