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Thaumistry: In Charm's Way cover art

Thaumistry: In Charm's Way

Bobbates LLC. · 2017-10-07

Steam

AdventureIndie

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Text

Releases: Oct 08, 2017 (Mac), Oct 08, 2017 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Oct 08, 2017 (Android), Oct 08, 2017 (iOS), Oct 08, 2017 (Linux)

Thaumistry: In Charm's Way is an all-new comedy text adventure from award-winning Infocom and Legend Entertainment author Bob Bates.

100%
positive of 59 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
70/100
IGDB user rating (1 ratings)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$3.99
steam price (US)
Thaumistry: In Charm's Way is an interactive fiction video game developed by Bob Bates, designer of Sherlock: The Riddle of the Crown Jewels and Arthur: The Quest for Excalibur.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 9 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity up 29% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 53% of 24,443 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 1.5k–3.5k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 59 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $2.28 at FireFlower (2019-08-03)via IsThereAnyDeal

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
5520172025Week of 2017-10-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$18.77$2.282017-10-092024-02-112017-10-09 — best price $14.992017-11-11 — best price $17.492017-12-21 — best price $7.492017-12-22 — best price $8.902018-01-04 — best price $14.992018-01-05 — best price $18.092018-02-16 — best price $18.772018-06-22 — best price $3.742018-07-05 — best price $14.992018-08-09 — best price $4.492018-08-23 — best price $14.992018-08-27 — best price $9.992018-09-06 — best price $9.542018-11-21 — best price $3.392018-11-27 — best price $9.992018-12-20 — best price $3.392019-01-03 — best price $9.992019-03-22 — best price $9.322019-06-26 — best price $3.992019-07-10 — best price $9.992019-07-29 — best price $4.562019-08-03 — best price $2.282019-08-05 — best price $9.102019-11-26 — best price $2.992019-12-03 — best price $9.992019-12-19 — best price $2.992020-01-02 — best price $9.992020-01-05 — best price $3.992020-06-25 — best price $3.392020-06-26 — best price $4.472020-07-09 — best price $3.992020-10-19 — best price $4.822021-05-02 — best price $4.802021-05-09 — best price $4.502022-03-02 — best price $4.442022-03-12 — best price $4.352022-05-01 — best price $4.262023-04-29 — best price $4.302024-02-11 — best price $3.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

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Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

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1 supported languages: English

Player tags

FunnyIndieComedyAdventureText-BasedSingleplayerInteractive Fiction

Census log

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

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