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Sylvio cover art

Sylvio

Stroboskop · 2015-06-05

SteamPlayStation StoreMicrosoft Store

AdventureIndie

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: First person

Releases: Jun 05, 2015 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Jan 13, 2017 (Xbox One), Jun 05, 2015 (Mac), Jan 13, 2017 (PlayStation 4)

Sylvio is a psychological horror game set in a tranquil, disturbing atmosphere. Help ghost recorder Juliette Waters face an evil curse and a wicked family cult with her microphone and the voices of the dead.

79%
positive of 145 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
33/100
critic score (2 outlets, IGDB)
80/100
IGDB user rating (1 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$12.99
steam price (US)
Sylvio is an indie-developed first-person horror adventure video game released on Steam in June 2015 for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and, OS X, utilizing the Unity engine. The game is about an audio recordist called Juliette Waters, who records the voices of ghosts through Electronic voice phenomenon. She finds herself trapped in an old family park, shut down since a landslide in 1971, and she now needs to use her recorder to survive the night. A sequel, Sylvio 2, was released on October 11, 2017.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 8 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity up 33% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 49% of 16,488 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 3.6k–8.7k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 145 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

Microsoft Store$12.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $1.29 at Steam (2020-03-18) · bundled 1×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $12.99 · on sale 4 of 9 observed days · $11.70 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
5520152026Week of 2015-06-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2015-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2015-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2015-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2016-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2017-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$12.99$1.292015-06-052026-09-152015-06-05 — best price $11.042015-07-31 — best price $12.992015-10-30 — best price $4.412015-12-22 — best price $6.492016-05-02 — best price $6.492016-06-23 — best price $6.492016-11-01 — best price $12.992016-12-22 — best price $9.742017-06-23 — best price $3.242017-12-21 — best price $3.892018-06-21 — best price $3.242018-11-22 — best price $6.492019-02-04 — best price $3.242019-09-25 — best price $12.882019-12-03 — best price $12.992020-01-27 — best price $12.992020-07-09 — best price $12.992020-12-01 — best price $12.992021-02-15 — best price $12.992021-11-01 — best price $12.992022-01-05 — best price $12.992022-06-23 — best price $3.892022-12-22 — best price $3.892023-06-29 — best price $6.492023-11-21 — best price $3.892024-03-14 — best price $3.892024-10-28 — best price $3.242024-12-19 — best price $3.242025-07-02 — best price $3.242025-10-27 — best price $3.892026-06-25 — best price $3.892026-09-15 — best price $12.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

1202026-06-17 — 5 pageviews2026-06-20 — 7 pageviews2026-06-23 — 5 pageviews2026-06-26 — 1 pageviews2026-06-29 — 7 pageviews2026-07-02 — 8 pageviews2026-07-05 — 7 pageviews2026-07-08 — 2 pageviews2026-07-11 — 2 pageviews2026-07-14 — 4 pageviews2026-07-17 — 5 pageviews2026-07-20 — 6 pageviews2026-07-23 — 2 pageviews2026-07-26 — 4 pageviews2026-07-29 — 5 pageviews2026-08-01 — 6 pageviews2026-08-04 — 3 pageviews2026-08-07 — 4 pageviews2026-08-10 — 4 pageviews2026-08-13 — 5 pageviews2026-08-16 — 5 pageviews2026-08-19 — 1 pageviews2026-08-22 — 2 pageviews2026-08-25 — 5 pageviews2026-08-28 — 4 pageviews2026-08-31 — 2 pageviews2026-09-03 — 5 pageviews2026-09-06 — 6 pageviews2026-09-09 — 0 pageviews2026-09-12 — 6 pageviews2026-09-14 — 9 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

50
achievements tracked
63.2%
earned "Entertainment"
8.5%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportRemote Play on TVFamily Sharing1 DLC

Player tags

IndieHorrorAdventureFemale Protagonist

Census log

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

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