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The Cost Of Bliss

Andre David Dev · 2024-01-05

Steam

Indie

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: First person

Releases: Jan 05, 2024 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Force to spend a month in a psych ward to cure your addiction, you fight yourself going through painful levels of withdrawal. To cope, you make friends with a man who helps ease your pain, in exchange for unsettling favours.

The Cost Of Bliss is an Indie game released in 2024, priced at $2.99, with an estimated owner base of 100,000 .. 200,000 and a Positive review sentiment (100% of 18 reviews).

0
playing now
100%
positive of 18 reviews
Positive
steam's rating (official)
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
$2.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 16:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 8 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity up 60% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 80% of 49,548 Indie games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-02

All-time low: $1.49 at Steam (2024-10-28)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $2.99 · on sale 2 of 4 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
2220242026Week of 2024-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

002026-09-15 01:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 10:00 — 0 players2026-09-17 17:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 01:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 08:00 — 0 players2026-09-21 16:00 — 0 players2026-09-22 23:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 07:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 14:00 — 0 players2026-09-26 22:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 05:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 13:00 — 0 players2026-09-30 20:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 04:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 11:00 — 0 players2026-10-04 20:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 03:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 11:00 — 0 players2026-10-08 18:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 02:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 09:00 — 0 players2026-10-12 17:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 00:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 16:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$2.99$1.492024-01-052026-01-052024-01-05 — best price $2.542024-01-12 — best price $2.992024-03-14 — best price $2.242024-03-21 — best price $2.992024-05-06 — best price $2.392024-05-13 — best price $2.992024-06-27 — best price $1.792024-07-11 — best price $2.992024-08-19 — best price $2.092024-08-26 — best price $2.992024-10-28 — best price $1.492024-11-04 — best price $2.992024-11-27 — best price $2.092024-12-04 — best price $2.992024-12-12 — best price $1.942024-12-16 — best price $2.992024-12-19 — best price $1.942025-01-02 — best price $2.992025-01-20 — best price $1.492025-01-27 — best price $2.992025-03-13 — best price $1.942025-03-14 — best price $2.092025-03-20 — best price $2.992025-03-24 — best price $2.092025-03-31 — best price $2.992025-07-08 — best price $2.242025-07-10 — best price $2.992025-09-29 — best price $1.792025-10-06 — best price $2.992025-10-27 — best price $2.242025-11-03 — best price $2.992025-12-18 — best price $2.092026-01-05 — best price $2.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam CloudFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Player tags

3DFPSPvEHorrorLinearPuzzleMysteryStealthStory RichAtmospheric

Census log

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

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