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Song in the Smoke cover art

Song in the Smoke

17-BIT · 2021-12-16

SteamAmazon

ActionAdventureSimulation

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Virtual Reality

Releases: Oct 07, 2021 (PlayStation VR), Oct 07, 2021 (Oculus VR), Oct 07, 2021 (Meta Quest 2), Oct 07, 2021 (Oculus Quest), Dec 16, 2021 (SteamVR)

Using the power of virtual reality, Song in the Smoke puts your survival directly in your own hands. Enter this dangerous world outside of time, where you must craft weapons, make clothes, build fires, and brew healing elixirs to steel yourself against its vicious predators.

86%
positive of 64 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unsupported
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$29.99
steam price (US)

The first priority is always survival in Song in the Smoke. That means hunting and scavenging for food to stave off hunger, and it means choosing safe campsite locations to sleep at to avoid exhaustion. It also means concocting antidotes and healing tonics for poison and injuries, as well as staying warm, crafting clothes and building fires as I move from forests, through plateaus, to frozen peaks. It also means defending myself against attacks from the predators that share this world with me. Song in the Smoke’s beasts move with a weight that’s only possible in VR, and their attacks feel lik(Storyline via IGDB)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 8 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity up 0% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 54% of 20,866 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 1.3k–2.9k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 64 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $10.49 at Steam (2026-06-25)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $29.99 · on sale 3 of 6 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
9920212026Week of 2021-12-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-09-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$29.99$10.492021-12-162026-07-092021-12-16 — best price $29.992022-02-01 — best price $25.192022-02-03 — best price $29.992022-06-23 — best price $22.492022-07-07 — best price $29.992022-07-19 — best price $20.092022-07-25 — best price $29.992022-12-24 — best price $20.092023-01-05 — best price $29.992023-07-03 — best price $20.092023-07-13 — best price $29.992025-12-18 — best price $11.992026-01-05 — best price $29.992026-03-25 — best price $11.992026-03-26 — best price $29.992026-06-25 — best price $10.492026-07-09 — best price $29.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsTracked Controller SupportVR OnlySteam CloudFamily Sharing

9 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese

Player tags

3DVRActionHorrorFantasyCraftingAdventureCinematicSimulationAtmospheric

Census log

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

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