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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.

The Designer's Curse is a free-to-play Indie and Free To Play game released in 2019, with an estimated 200,000 .. 500,000 owners and Very Positive (88% of 811 reviews).

0
playing now
88%
positive of 817 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
1h
to beat · rushed 1h
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
Free
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-15 05:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 23 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~3/week).
  • · Review velocity down 30% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (130 reviews).
  • · Top 12% of 50,069 Indie games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-31

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
11611620192026Week of 2019-07-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 116 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2019-09-01: 38 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2019-10-01: 31 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2019-11-01: 36 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 26 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-02-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-03-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

102026-09-15 14:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 23:00 — 0 players2026-09-18 06:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 14:00 — 1 players2026-09-20 21:00 — 0 players2026-09-22 05:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 13:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 20:00 — 0 players2026-09-26 04:00 — 1 players2026-09-27 11:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 19:00 — 0 players2026-09-30 02:00 — 0 players2026-10-01 10:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 17:00 — 0 players2026-10-04 01:00 — 0 players2026-10-05 09:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 16:00 — 0 players2026-10-08 00:00 — 0 players2026-10-09 07:00 — 1 players2026-10-10 15:00 — 1 players2026-10-11 23:00 — 0 players2026-10-13 06:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 14:00 — 0 players2026-10-15 05:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
151Aug 2019Apr 2024Aug 2019 — avg 15 · peak 33Sep 2019 — avg 9 · peak 20Oct 2019 — avg 7 · peak 18Nov 2019 — avg 2 · peak 12Dec 2019 — avg 2 · peak 7Jan 2020 — avg 2 · peak 8Feb 2020 — avg 2 · peak 10Mar 2020 — avg 2 · peak 9Apr 2020 — avg 3 · peak 7May 2020 — avg 2 · peak 7Jun 2020 — avg 2 · peak 6Jul 2020 — avg 2 · peak 6Aug 2020 — avg 2 · peak 8Sep 2020 — avg 2 · peak 6Oct 2020 — avg 2 · peak 7Nov 2020 — avg 2 · peak 6Dec 2020 — avg 1 · peak 5Jan 2021 — avg 2 · peak 9Feb 2021 — avg 1 · peak 5Mar 2021 — avg 1 · peak 4Apr 2021 — avg 2 · peak 7May 2021 — avg 2 · peak 8Jun 2021 — avg 3 · peak 10Jul 2021 — avg 3 · peak 12Aug 2021 — avg 4 · peak 12Sep 2021 — avg 3 · peak 11Oct 2021 — avg 4 · peak 20Nov 2021 — avg 3 · peak 13Dec 2021 — avg 2 · peak 9Jan 2022 — avg 2 · peak 8Feb 2022 — avg 2 · peak 6Mar 2022 — avg 2 · peak 6Apr 2022 — avg 1 · peak 6Aug 2022 — avg 2 · peak 6Apr 2024 — avg 1 · peak 4

▼ −1 avg players (−36.6%) vs prior month — Apr 2024

Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

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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