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The Bottom of the Well

Red Nettle Studio · 2016-03-03

Steam

RPGFree To Play

Modes: Single player

Releases: Mar 03, 2016 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Play as Alice who has just had an unsettingly life-like dream about the end of the world, and is retelling it to her friend. A single play-through might take as little as 20 minutes, but experiencing all the possible paths Alice can take through the ruins of her city will take you many hours.

0
playing now
85%
positive of 588 reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
64/100
IGDB user rating (6 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Free
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 08:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

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  • · Top 43% of 6,171 RPG games in the census by review count.

Players online

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Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFamily Sharing1 DLC

1 supported languages: English

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)2,11370%12

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

RPGHorrorFree to PlayVisual NovelChoices MatterPost-apocalypticFemale ProtagonistInteractive FictionChoose Your Own Adventure

Census log

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

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