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The Dark Gift

JustTomcuk · 2024-12-23

Steam

AdventureIndieSimulation

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: First person

Releases: Dec 23, 2024 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

The Dark Gift is a horror game about Christmas and New Year.

78%
positive of 122 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$3.99
steam price (US)

The Dark Gift is a horror game about Christmas and New Year. Description: You woke up in the basement of your home and don’t remember anything... When you go up to the house, you see the Christmas decorations and garlands and remember that it is family holiday time and time to get ready for it, while your wife and son went out to the store to do some shopping... Suddenly the doorbell sounded. Opening the door, you see that someone left you a gift box... What's inside this mysterious box?! What awaits you in the game: Unusual graphic style in the style of old-school games. (VHS aesthetic(Storyline via IGDB)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 23 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~3/week).
  • · Review velocity up 53% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 37% of 28,108 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 2.4k–5.5k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 122 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

lowest across shops (ITAD)$3.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

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
323220242026Week of 2024-12-23: 32 positiveWeek of 2024-12-23: 8 negativeWeek of 2024-12-30: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-12-30: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-01-06: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-01-13: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-01-13: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-01-27: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-02-10: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-02-10: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-02-17: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-03-03: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-03-10: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-03-17: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-03-24: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-04-28: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-05-05: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-06-09: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-16: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-23: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-07-14: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-28: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-08-04: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-11: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-18: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-15: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-22: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-10-06: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-10-27: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-24: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-08: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-08: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-12-15: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-12-22: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-12-22: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-12-29: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-12-29: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-05: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-01-12: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-01-12: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-02-23: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-06: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-08: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-22: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-06: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$3.99$1.792024-12-232026-10-082024-12-23 — best price $3.992025-02-01 — best price $3.992025-03-27 — best price $3.992025-05-07 — best price $3.992025-06-20 — best price $3.992025-07-10 — best price $3.992025-07-27 — best price $3.992025-09-02 — best price $3.992025-10-06 — best price $3.992025-11-03 — best price $3.992025-12-10 — best price $3.992026-01-05 — best price $3.992026-01-16 — best price $3.992026-02-24 — best price $3.992026-04-02 — best price $3.992026-05-09 — best price $3.992026-06-15 — best price $3.992026-07-09 — best price $3.992026-07-22 — best price $3.992026-08-27 — best price $3.992026-10-08 — best price $3.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerFamily Sharing

6 supported languages: English, Russian, Spanish - Spain, Portuguese - Brazil, Spanish - Latin America, Portuguese - Portugal

Player tags

3DDarkHorrorLinearMysteryThrillerCinematicRealisticStory RichAtmospheric

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.