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SVRVIVE: The Deus Helix

Antler Interactive · 2016-11-17

Steam

AdventureIndie

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Virtual Reality

Releases: Nov 17, 2016 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

A challenging mystery adventure game, ranked as one of the best HTC Vive games of 2017 (PC Advisor). With every mission comes entirely new worlds and puzzles. The story takes you through one of the longest VR games to date.

SVRVIVE: The Deus Helix is an Adventure and Indie game released in 2016, priced at $18.99, with a Mostly Positive review sentiment (72% of 94 reviews) and an estimated owner base of 20,000 .. 50,000.

0
playing now
72%
positive of 94 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
80/100
IGDB user rating (0 ratings)
$18.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-15 00:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 5 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 37% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (16 reviews).
  • · Top 41% of 29,161 Adventure games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-01

Estimated sales: 2.4k–5.6k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 94 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $4.74 at Steam (2018-10-29) · bundled 3×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $14.22 · on sale 0 of 5 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
141420162023Week of 2016-11-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2016-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2016-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2016-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-01-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2017-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-02-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2017-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-03-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2017-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2017-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

002026-09-16 01:00 — 0 players2026-09-17 09:00 — 0 players2026-09-18 16:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 00:00 — 0 players2026-09-21 07:00 — 0 players2026-09-22 15:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 23:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 06:00 — 0 players2026-09-26 14:00 — 0 players2026-09-27 21:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 05:00 — 0 players2026-09-30 12:00 — 0 players2026-10-01 20:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 03:00 — 0 players2026-10-04 11:00 — 0 players2026-10-05 19:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 03:00 — 0 players2026-10-08 10:00 — 0 players2026-10-09 18:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 01:00 — 0 players2026-10-12 09:00 — 0 players2026-10-13 16:00 — 0 players2026-10-15 00:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$24.99$4.742016-11-182026-05-302016-11-18 — best price $22.492017-01-02 — best price $24.992017-03-08 — best price $18.992017-06-22 — best price $11.202017-09-13 — best price $18.992017-11-22 — best price $10.062018-01-04 — best price $18.992018-04-19 — best price $11.012018-07-05 — best price $18.992019-06-25 — best price $4.742019-11-01 — best price $18.992019-12-19 — best price $4.742020-07-09 — best price $18.992020-12-21 — best price $18.992021-03-21 — best price $18.992021-04-21 — best price $13.622021-06-18 — best price $13.952021-07-01 — best price $13.952021-07-25 — best price $13.952021-09-06 — best price $17.092021-09-11 — best price $13.952021-10-07 — best price $18.992021-12-01 — best price $18.992022-01-20 — best price $17.092022-02-10 — best price $13.952022-03-06 — best price $17.092022-04-21 — best price $13.952022-05-23 — best price $18.992022-07-25 — best price $18.992022-11-05 — best price $18.992023-01-05 — best price $18.992024-07-30 — best price $18.992025-08-16 — best price $13.952026-05-28 — best price $14.092026-05-30 — best price $14.22
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerTracked Controller SupportVR OnlyFamily Sharing1 DLC

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2016-12-22 (Steam store data)

Player tags

VRIndiePuzzleAdventure

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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