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The Fernweh Saga: Book One

Hosted Games · 2023-01-05

Steam

CasualIndieRPG

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Text

Releases: Jan 05, 2023 (Mac), Jan 05, 2023 (Linux), Jan 05, 2023 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Expose the dark secrets and mysteries of your seemingly idyllic hometown in this romantic thriller! Will you fall in love or fall victim to its horrors?

91%
positive of 111 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
$7.99
steam price (US)

Some homecomings feel more like rude awakenings, but this one will become a waking nightmare. Find love while exposing the secrets of your eerie hometown! The Fernweh Saga: Book One is a 600,000-word interactive, romantic thriller novel by Aelsa Trevelyan. It's entirely text-based, without graphics or sound effects, and fueled by the vast, unstoppable power of your imagination. Return to a small town that you now feel a stranger in. It has been years since you were sent away following the tragic house fire that claimed your parents' lives, but the death of your grandfather has brought you ba(Storyline via IGDB)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 9 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 18% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (56 reviews).
  • · Top 45% of 14,726 Casual games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 2.2k–5.0k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 111 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $4.79 at Steam (2023-03-16)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $7.99 · on sale 4 of 8 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
515120232026Week of 2023-01-01: 51 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 2 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$7.99$4.792023-01-052026-07-092023-01-05 — best price $5.032023-01-12 — best price $7.992023-03-16 — best price $4.792023-03-23 — best price $7.992023-06-29 — best price $4.792023-07-13 — best price $7.992023-11-21 — best price $4.792023-11-28 — best price $7.992023-12-21 — best price $4.792024-01-04 — best price $7.992024-03-14 — best price $4.792024-03-21 — best price $7.992024-06-28 — best price $4.792024-07-11 — best price $7.992024-11-27 — best price $4.872024-12-04 — best price $7.992024-12-19 — best price $4.872025-01-02 — best price $7.992025-03-13 — best price $5.592025-03-20 — best price $7.992025-06-26 — best price $4.792025-07-10 — best price $7.992025-09-29 — best price $4.792025-10-06 — best price $7.992025-12-18 — best price $4.792026-01-05 — best price $7.992026-03-19 — best price $4.792026-03-26 — best price $7.992026-06-25 — best price $4.792026-07-09 — best price $7.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

60+
achievements tracked
92.4%
earned "Verse Collector"
41.1%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam CloudFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Player tags

RPGIndieCasualMysteryRomanceSurrealThrillerStory RichText-BasedAtmospheric

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.