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The Agency: Chapter 1

Sapphire Dragon Productions · 2016-07-13

Steam

AdventureCasualSimulation

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Text

Releases: Jul 13, 2016 (Mac), Jul 13, 2016 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

“The Agency” is an episodic mystery kinetic novel. In a fictional dystopic sci-fi steampunk world still recovering from the destruction of a recent global war; a young man travels to the Imperial capital city to seek better fortunes for himself.

The Agency: Chapter 1 is an Adventure, Casual and Simulation game released in 2016 for $2.99, with an estimated 20,000 to 50,000 owners and Mixed sentiment (64% of 56 reviews).

0
playing now
64%
positive of 56 reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
60/100
IGDB user rating (0 ratings)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$2.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-15 01:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 6 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 25% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 52% of 29,021 Adventure games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-02

Estimated sales: 1.4k–3.4k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 56 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.74 at Steam (2018-02-15) · bundled 3×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $2.99 · on sale 7 of 14 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
6620162026Week of 2016-07-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2016-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

102026-09-16 02:00 — 0 players2026-09-17 09:00 — 0 players2026-09-18 17:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 00:00 — 0 players2026-09-21 08:00 — 0 players2026-09-22 16:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 23:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 07:00 — 0 players2026-09-26 14:00 — 0 players2026-09-27 22:00 — 1 players2026-09-29 05:00 — 0 players2026-09-30 13:00 — 0 players2026-10-01 20:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 04:00 — 0 players2026-10-04 12:00 — 0 players2026-10-05 20:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 03:00 — 0 players2026-10-08 11:00 — 0 players2026-10-09 18:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 02:00 — 0 players2026-10-12 10:00 — 0 players2026-10-13 17:00 — 0 players2026-10-15 01:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$2.99$0.742016-07-132026-08-242016-07-13 — best price $2.992017-07-05 — best price $2.992018-01-04 — best price $2.992018-03-19 — best price $2.992018-09-03 — best price $2.992019-01-03 — best price $2.992019-04-01 — best price $2.992019-08-19 — best price $2.992019-11-25 — best price $2.992020-01-02 — best price $2.992020-03-02 — best price $2.992020-04-20 — best price $2.992020-07-20 — best price $2.992020-12-01 — best price $2.992021-02-08 — best price $2.992021-07-08 — best price $2.992022-02-03 — best price $2.992022-04-18 — best price $2.992022-07-07 — best price $2.992022-09-12 — best price $2.992022-11-29 — best price $2.992023-02-27 — best price $2.992023-04-10 — best price $2.992023-07-13 — best price $2.992023-11-13 — best price $2.992024-01-04 — best price $2.992024-03-11 — best price $2.992024-05-06 — best price $2.992024-07-11 — best price $2.992024-09-30 — best price $2.992024-12-04 — best price $2.992025-01-13 — best price $2.992025-06-16 — best price $2.992025-07-28 — best price $2.992025-10-06 — best price $2.992026-02-09 — best price $2.992026-05-11 — best price $2.992026-07-09 — best price $2.992026-08-24 — best price $2.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

3
achievements tracked
9.1%
earned "The motion is set"
7.8%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam Trading CardsSteam CloudFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Player tags

AnimeCasualPuzzleMysteryAdventureDetectiveSteampunkSimulationStory RichVisual Novel

Census log

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

Recent updates

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