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The Gap cover art

The Gap

MV JPL · 2023-04-14

Steam

Indie

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: First person

Releases: Apr 15, 2023 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

The Gap is a short first-person horror experience taking place in a ghostly abandoned house on a lonely street corner.

73%
positive of 143 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
60/100
critic score (1 outlets, IGDB)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$2.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 7 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 53% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (47 reviews).
  • · Top 42% of 30,401 Indie games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 2.9k–6.4k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 143 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $1.04 at Steam (2023-06-29)via IsThereAnyDeal

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
434320232026Week of 2023-04-01: 43 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-09-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerFamily Sharing

8 supported languages: English, Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Russian, French, German, Korean, Catalan

Player tags

3DIndie1990'sHorrorLinearAdventureCinematicNarrationRealisticAtmospheric

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.