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The Designer's Curse

CBGames · 2019-07-29

Steam

IndieFree To Play

Modes: Single player

Releases: Jul 29, 2019 (Mac), Jul 29, 2019 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Chapter 2 is OUT NOW! The first chapter of an unforgettable survival horror experience. Solve puzzles and work your way through this terrifying place. You may be more familiar with it than you initially think.

0
playing now
88%
positive of 811 reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
1h
to beat · rushed 1h
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Free
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 04:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 28% of 18,269 Indie games in the census by review count.

Players online

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Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Details

WindowsmacOSSingle-playerFamily Sharing

Player tags

GoreCo-opIndieActionHorrorPuzzleStealthAtmosphericExplorationFirst-Person

Census log

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

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