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The Initiate 2: The First Interviews

Deceptive Games Ltd. · 2018-10-16

Steam

ActionAdventureIndie

Modes: Single player

Releases: Oct 16, 2018 (Mac), Oct 16, 2018 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Three people awake in adjacent prison cells with no recollection of how they got there. Now, they must work together in order to escape this nightmarish captivity. But can they really trust one another?

91%
positive of 106 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
70/100
IGDB user rating (1 ratings)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$14.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 8 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity up 33% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 48% of 19,297 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 2.6k–6.4k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 106 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $2.59 at Humble Store (2020-01-09) · bundled 1×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $14.99 · on sale 9 of 17 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
7720182026Week of 2018-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-02-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$19.95$2.592018-06-262026-07-092018-06-26 — best price $13.492018-08-27 — best price $12.962018-10-16 — best price $10.792018-11-21 — best price $6.292019-01-03 — best price $17.992019-02-04 — best price $6.292019-03-07 — best price $17.992019-05-18 — best price $7.192019-06-20 — best price $6.472019-07-04 — best price $3.882019-08-05 — best price $5.242019-08-29 — best price $3.882019-10-21 — best price $14.992019-11-01 — best price $14.992019-11-26 — best price $3.882020-01-02 — best price $14.992020-01-23 — best price $4.192020-05-02 — best price $14.992020-05-21 — best price $11.562020-07-09 — best price $14.992020-11-25 — best price $3.742021-01-05 — best price $14.992021-07-15 — best price $4.492022-01-05 — best price $14.992022-05-11 — best price $4.492022-07-07 — best price $14.992025-02-19 — best price $5.992025-03-20 — best price $14.992025-05-23 — best price $4.492025-07-10 — best price $14.992025-09-29 — best price $3.592025-11-05 — best price $3.742026-01-05 — best price $14.992026-03-04 — best price $4.492026-03-26 — best price $14.992026-06-19 — best price $3.742026-07-09 — best price $14.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

38
achievements tracked
85.6%
earned "And We're Off"
64.9%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFamily Sharing

Player tags

DramaIndieActionHorrorPuzzleMysteryViolentAdventureStory RichAtmospheric

Census log

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

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