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South Scrimshaw, Part One cover art

South Scrimshaw, Part One

Nathan O. Marsh · 2023-06-09

SteamGOG

CasualIndie

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Text

Releases: Jun 09, 2023 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Jun 09, 2023 (Linux)

South Scrimshaw is the story of a newborn whale in a vast alien ocean. It is a richly illustrated experimental visual novel, written in the style of a nature documentary.

99%
positive of 1.6k reviews
Overwhelmingly Positive
steam's rating (official)
1
Nexus mods (5 downloads)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
Free
steam price (US)

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 124 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~16/week).
  • · Review velocity down 17% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 6% of 27,263 Casual games in the census by review count.

Current store prices

GOG$0.00

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

12-month high $0.00 · on sale 26 of 26 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
26626620232026Week of 2023-06-01: 227 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 266 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 93 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 58 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 54 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 70 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 56 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 118 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 46 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 48 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 31 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 35 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 36 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 31 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 29 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-09-01: 17 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$0.00$0.002026-09-162026-10-112026-09-16 — best price $0.002026-09-17 — best price $0.002026-09-18 — best price $0.002026-09-19 — best price $0.002026-09-20 — best price $0.002026-09-21 — best price $0.002026-09-22 — best price $0.002026-09-23 — best price $0.002026-09-24 — best price $0.002026-09-25 — best price $0.002026-09-26 — best price $0.002026-09-27 — best price $0.002026-09-28 — best price $0.002026-09-29 — best price $0.002026-09-30 — best price $0.002026-10-01 — best price $0.002026-10-02 — best price $0.002026-10-03 — best price $0.002026-10-04 — best price $0.002026-10-05 — best price $0.002026-10-06 — best price $0.002026-10-07 — best price $0.002026-10-08 — best price $0.002026-10-09 — best price $0.002026-10-10 — best price $0.002026-10-11 — best price $0.00
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

2
achievements tracked
59.1%
earned ""Endless Forms Most Beautiful""
50.4%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsLinuxSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFamily Sharing1 DLC

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2023-07-06 (Steam store data)

Census log

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

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