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The Crimson Diamond

Julia Minamata · 2024-08-15

SteamGOG

Adventure

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Side view

Releases: Aug 15, 2024 (Mac), Aug 15, 2024 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Follow amateur geologist and reluctant detective Nancy Maple to the ghost town of Crimson, Ontario to investigate the discovery of a massive diamond in this retro-inspired, EGA text parser mystery adventure!

97%
positive of 707 reviews
Overwhelmingly Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$14.99
steam price (US)
The Crimson Diamond is a 2024 mystery adventure video game developed and published by Julia Minamata for the PC. The game features a text parser, requiring players to solve a mystery through inputting instructions via text to the game. Solo developer Julia Minamata designed the game featuring an EGA color palette, inspired by the adventure games she enjoyed in her youth like The Colonel's Bequest.

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 76 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~10/week).
  • · Review velocity down 22% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (219 reviews).
  • · Top 16% of 29,933 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 14k–32k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 707 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

GOG$11.25-25%
lowest across shops (ITAD)$11.25-25%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $10.49 at Steam (2026-08-15)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $14.99 · on sale 54 of 86 observed days · $0.76 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
21721720242026Week of 2024-08-01: 217 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 73 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 29 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 41 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 35 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 28 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2026-09-01: 5 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$14.99$9.742024-08-152026-10-162024-08-15 — best price $13.492024-09-27 — best price $14.992024-11-04 — best price $12.992024-12-04 — best price $11.042024-12-19 — best price $11.992025-01-18 — best price $14.992025-02-21 — best price $14.992025-03-14 — best price $14.992025-04-14 — best price $14.992025-05-02 — best price $11.992025-05-21 — best price $14.992025-06-27 — best price $11.992025-08-07 — best price $11.992025-09-11 — best price $14.992025-10-08 — best price $14.992025-11-06 — best price $11.992025-12-01 — best price $10.392025-12-18 — best price $11.242026-01-23 — best price $11.242026-02-12 — best price $11.242026-03-16 — best price $14.992026-03-27 — best price $11.192026-04-23 — best price $14.992026-05-30 — best price $11.242026-06-13 — best price $14.992026-07-13 — best price $11.242026-08-15 — best price $10.492026-09-11 — best price $14.992026-09-15 — best price $14.992026-09-19 — best price $11.252026-09-23 — best price $11.252026-09-27 — best price $11.252026-10-01 — best price $10.492026-10-05 — best price $11.252026-10-09 — best price $14.992026-10-13 — best price $11.252026-10-16 — best price $11.25
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

2762026-07-18 — 13 pageviews2026-07-21 — 8 pageviews2026-07-24 — 7 pageviews2026-07-27 — 14 pageviews2026-07-30 — 20 pageviews2026-08-02 — 14 pageviews2026-08-05 — 8 pageviews2026-08-08 — 13 pageviews2026-08-11 — 15 pageviews2026-08-14 — 15 pageviews2026-08-17 — 22 pageviews2026-08-20 — 24 pageviews2026-08-23 — 14 pageviews2026-08-26 — 18 pageviews2026-08-29 — 12 pageviews2026-09-01 — 16 pageviews2026-09-04 — 16 pageviews2026-09-07 — 18 pageviews2026-09-10 — 11 pageviews2026-09-13 — 10 pageviews2026-09-16 — 19 pageviews2026-09-19 — 14 pageviews2026-09-22 — 14 pageviews2026-09-25 — 8 pageviews2026-09-28 — 17 pageviews2026-10-01 — 11 pageviews2026-10-04 — 25 pageviews2026-10-07 — 19 pageviews2026-10-10 — 13 pageviews2026-10-13 — 12 pageviews2026-10-15 — 6 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

26
achievements tracked
97.1%
earned "Welcome to Crimson!"
25.6%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFamily Sharing1 DLC

1 supported languages: English

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2025-08-15 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)4516%26

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

Player tags

2DCozyIndieRetroTypingMysteryAdventureDetectiveOld SchoolText-Based

Census log

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

Recent updates

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