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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.

The Bottom of the Well is a free-to-play RPG released in 2016, with an estimated 50,000 to 100,000 owners and a Very Positive review sentiment (85% of 590 reviews).

0
playing now
85%
positive of 590 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
64/100
IGDB user rating (6 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
Free
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 18:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 18 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity up 13% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 22% of 13,969 RPG games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-31

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
111120172026Week of 2017-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-03-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2017-04-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2017-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-05-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2017-06-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2017-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2017-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-08-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2017-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-09-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2017-10-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2017-11-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2017-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-12-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2018-01-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-02-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-08-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-09-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-11-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-12-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 4 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

102026-09-15 19:00 — 0 players2026-09-17 03:00 — 0 players2026-09-18 11:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 18:00 — 1 players2026-09-21 02:00 — 0 players2026-09-22 09:00 — 1 players2026-09-23 17:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 00:00 — 1 players2026-09-26 08:00 — 0 players2026-09-27 15:00 — 1 players2026-09-28 23:00 — 1 players2026-09-30 06:00 — 0 players2026-10-01 14:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 21:00 — 0 players2026-10-04 05:00 — 1 players2026-10-05 13:00 — 1 players2026-10-06 21:00 — 0 players2026-10-08 04:00 — 0 players2026-10-09 12:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 19:00 — 0 players2026-10-12 03:00 — 0 players2026-10-13 10:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 18:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
320Mar 2016Dec 2020Mar 2016 — avg 32 · peak 113May 2016 — avg 4 · peak 13Jul 2016 — avg 3 · peak 11Sep 2016 — avg 1 · peak 7Nov 2016 — avg 1 · peak 6Jan 2017 — avg 1 · peak 6Mar 2017 — avg 1 · peak 5May 2017 — avg 2 · peak 6Jul 2017 — avg 1 · peak 7Sep 2017 — avg 1 · peak 4Nov 2017 — avg 0 · peak 4Jan 2018 — avg 1 · peak 5Mar 2018 — avg 0 · peak 4May 2018 — avg 1 · peak 6Jul 2018 — avg 0 · peak 3Sep 2018 — avg 0 · peak 3Nov 2018 — avg 0 · peak 3Jan 2019 — avg 0 · peak 3Mar 2019 — avg 0 · peak 3May 2019 — avg 1 · peak 4Jul 2019 — avg 0 · peak 4Sep 2019 — avg 0 · peak 2Dec 2019 — avg 0 · peak 3Mar 2020 — avg 1 · peak 4Jun 2020 — avg 1 · peak 3Oct 2020 — avg 1 · peak 2Dec 2020 — avg 0 · peak 3

No change (0) in avg players vs prior month — Dec 2020

Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Completion

12
achievements tracked
60%
earned "First Death"
21.8%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFamily Sharing1 DLC

1 supported languages: English

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2016-04-20 (Steam store data)

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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Similarity via IGDB.

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