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The Invisible Hours cover art

The Invisible Hours

Tequila Works · Game Trust · 2017-10-10

SteamPlayStation Store

AdventureCasual

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Virtual Reality

Releases: Oct 17, 2017 (PlayStation 4), Oct 10, 2017 (PlayStation VR), Oct 10, 2017 (SteamVR), Oct 10, 2017 (Windows Mixed Reality), Oct 10, 2017 (Oculus Rift), TBD (Oculus Quest)

The Invisible Hours is a complex murder mystery in VR, in which players freely explore an intricate web of interwoven stories within a sprawling mansion. This is not a game. This is not a movie. This is a piece of immersive theatre with many tangled threads.

91%
positive of 526 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
73/100
critic score (2 outlets, IGDB)
80/100
IGDB user rating (9 ratings)
4.37★
PlayStation Store rating (536 ratings)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Verified
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$29.99
steam price (US)

"A group of strangers receive a curious invitation from enigmatic inventor Nikola Tesla, offering each of them the chance to make amends for their darkest wrongdoings. When the last guest arrives at Tesla’s isolated mansion laboratory, they find him dead – murdered. Disgraced Swedish detective, Gustaf Gustav, vows to find the killer amongst the other guests: a blind butler, a convicted murderer, the world’s most famous actress, Tesla’s former assistant, the son of a wealthy railroad magnate, and rival inventor Thomas Edison. But none of these people are what they seem."(Storyline via IGDB)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 5 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 44% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (35 reviews).
  • · Top 26% of 19,781 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 13k–32k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 526 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $5.09 at Fanatical (2022-05-09) · bundled 10×via IsThereAnyDeal

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
353520172026Week of 2017-10-01: 35 positiveWeek of 2017-11-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-01-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-02-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-03-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 3 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$35.39$5.092017-10-102025-08-162017-10-10 — best price $29.992018-01-04 — best price $29.992018-06-21 — best price $14.992018-08-13 — best price $29.992018-10-01 — best price $14.992018-11-01 — best price $29.992018-11-27 — best price $29.992018-12-20 — best price $11.992019-01-03 — best price $29.992019-03-18 — best price $11.992019-05-27 — best price $29.992019-06-27 — best price $29.992019-07-09 — best price $29.992019-08-30 — best price $29.992019-11-01 — best price $29.992019-11-29 — best price $10.192019-12-07 — best price $29.992020-01-09 — best price $10.192020-01-23 — best price $10.192020-05-21 — best price $29.992020-08-28 — best price $10.492020-10-29 — best price $10.492020-11-25 — best price $10.492020-12-22 — best price $10.492021-02-23 — best price $29.992022-05-09 — best price $5.092022-06-01 — best price $29.992022-09-27 — best price $26.882023-02-14 — best price $29.992023-05-24 — best price $29.992023-09-18 — best price $23.992023-11-16 — best price $26.882024-02-19 — best price $26.882024-07-31 — best price $29.992024-08-03 — best price $26.882024-11-22 — best price $5.992025-01-05 — best price $26.882025-03-03 — best price $7.492025-08-16 — best price $26.88
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

36
achievements tracked
78.8%
earned "The Ghost"
21.4%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportTracked Controller SupportVR SupportedRemote Play on TVFamily Sharing

3 supported languages: English, French, German

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
PS4 (PlayStation)1,67245%37
Steam (Steam)1,15916%36
Xbox One (Xbox)56258%36

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

Player tags

VRCasualMysteryAdventureDetectiveStory RichSingleplayer

Census log

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

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