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The Broken Ceiling

Iron Octopus Productions Inc. · 2024-10-13

Steam

AdventureIndieRPG

Modes: Single player

Releases: Oct 13, 2024 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

The Broken Ceiling is a hand-drawn, 2D, top-down eldritch horror adventure where the player must use a fragile light, which constantly needs to be recharged, to hold back the darkness, explore alien caverns, and uncover why fate has summoned a little rabbit into a pit of incomprehensible beings.

0
playing now
100%
positive of 19 reviews
Positive
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
$2.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-09-16 03:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 17 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Top 86% of 16,819 Adventure games in the census by review count.

All-time low: $1.79 at Steam (2025-12-18)via IsThereAnyDeal

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

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
5520242026Week of 2024-10-14: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-10-21: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-10-28: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-11-04: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-12-16: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-05-05: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-12-29: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$2.99$1.792024-10-142026-04-132024-10-14 — best price $2.992024-11-27 — best price $2.242024-12-04 — best price $2.992024-12-06 — best price $2.092024-12-14 — best price $2.992024-12-19 — best price $2.092025-01-02 — best price $2.992025-01-13 — best price $2.092025-01-20 — best price $2.992025-02-24 — best price $2.242025-03-03 — best price $2.992025-03-13 — best price $2.092025-03-20 — best price $2.992025-04-07 — best price $2.092025-04-14 — best price $2.992025-05-19 — best price $2.092025-05-26 — best price $2.992025-06-27 — best price $2.092025-07-10 — best price $2.992025-07-14 — best price $2.092025-07-21 — best price $2.992025-08-25 — best price $2.092025-09-01 — best price $2.992025-09-29 — best price $2.092025-10-06 — best price $2.992025-10-27 — best price $2.092025-11-03 — best price $2.992025-12-18 — best price $1.792026-01-05 — best price $2.992026-01-14 — best price $1.792026-01-19 — best price $2.992026-02-23 — best price $1.792026-03-02 — best price $2.992026-03-19 — best price $1.792026-03-26 — best price $2.992026-04-06 — best price $1.792026-04-13 — best price $2.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerFull controller supportFamily Sharing

Player tags

2DRPGCRPGDarkHorrorTop-DownAdventureIsometricHand-drawnAtmospheric

Census log

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

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