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The Cursed Tape

JustTomcuk · 2024-05-07

Steam

AdventureIndieSimulation

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: First person

Releases: May 07, 2024 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Someone slipped a mysterious videotape under your door... Do you dare watch it?!

80%
positive of 337 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$3.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 42 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~5/week).
  • · Review velocity down 32% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 35% of 17,648 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 6.7k–15k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 337 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $1.79 at Steam (2026-08-21)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $3.99 · on sale 12 of 24 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
757520242026Week of 2024-05-01: 75 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 26 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-09-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$3.99$1.792024-05-072026-08-272024-05-07 — best price $3.992024-06-20 — best price $3.992024-07-11 — best price $3.992024-08-05 — best price $3.992024-09-18 — best price $3.992024-11-04 — best price $3.992024-12-04 — best price $3.992025-01-16 — best price $3.992025-03-20 — best price $2.392025-04-27 — best price $2.592025-06-03 — best price $2.392025-06-27 — best price $1.992025-07-13 — best price $2.192025-08-19 — best price $1.992025-09-29 — best price $1.992025-10-27 — best price $1.992025-12-03 — best price $1.992025-12-18 — best price $1.992026-01-09 — best price $1.992026-02-17 — best price $2.392026-03-19 — best price $1.992026-05-02 — best price $1.992026-06-08 — best price $1.992026-06-25 — best price $1.992026-07-15 — best price $1.992026-08-21 — best price $1.792026-08-27 — best price $3.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerFamily Sharing

40 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Arabic, Bulgarian, Portuguese - Brazil, Hungarian, Vietnamese, Greek, Danish…

Census log

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

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