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The Endless Empty

Erik Sheader-Smith · 2018-11-03

Steam

AdventureIndieRPG

Modes: Single player

Releases: Nov 03, 2018 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

A surreal post-life adventure

97%
positive of 318 reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
70/100
IGDB user rating (3 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$3.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 52 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~7/week).
  • · Review velocity up 79% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 48% of 11,424 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 8.0k–19k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 318 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.99 at Steam (2023-02-13)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $3.99 · on sale 4 of 8 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
161620182026Week of 2018-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 5 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$3.99$0.992018-11-052026-07-092018-11-05 — best price $3.392018-11-10 — best price $3.992019-06-07 — best price $3.192019-06-21 — best price $3.992019-10-11 — best price $2.992019-10-15 — best price $3.992021-02-11 — best price $2.392021-02-15 — best price $3.992021-12-23 — best price $2.392022-01-05 — best price $3.992022-01-27 — best price $2.392022-02-21 — best price $3.992023-02-13 — best price $0.992023-02-20 — best price $3.992024-02-12 — best price $0.992024-02-19 — best price $3.992024-11-27 — best price $0.992024-12-04 — best price $3.992025-02-03 — best price $0.992025-02-10 — best price $3.992025-12-18 — best price $2.992026-01-05 — best price $3.992026-02-09 — best price $1.992026-02-23 — best price $3.992026-03-19 — best price $2.672026-03-26 — best price $3.992026-06-25 — best price $1.992026-07-09 — best price $3.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

5
achievements tracked
25.9%
earned "Identity Crisis"
19%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerFamily Sharing1 DLC

5 supported languages: English, Simplified Chinese, Italian, Russian, Spanish - Latin America

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)6340%5

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

Player tags

RPGIndieLGBTQ+PuzzleSurrealAbstractColorfulRPGMakerAdventureStory Rich

Census log

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

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