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The Looker

Subcreation Studio · 2022-06-17

Steam

Indie

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: First person

Releases: Jun 17, 2022 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.

97%
positive of 16k reviews
Overwhelmingly Positive
steam's rating (official)
72/100
IGDB user rating (45 ratings)
1.3h
time to beat (IGDB)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
Free
steam price (US)
The Witness is a 2016 puzzle video game developed and published by Thekla, Inc. Inspired by Myst, the game involves the exploration of an open world island filled with natural and human-made structures. The player progresses by solving puzzles, which are based on interactions with grids presented on panels around the island or paths hidden within the environment.

Health check

Healthy
  • · 1,002 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~125/week).
  • · Review velocity up 18% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (3,728 reviews).
  • · Top 2% of 33,601 Indie games in the census by review count.

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
3.7k3.7k20222026Week of 2022-06-01: 3,656 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 72 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 2,638 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 75 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 901 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 28 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 720 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 20 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 395 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 1,151 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 349 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 717 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 25 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 290 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 253 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 198 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 170 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 206 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 205 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 206 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 155 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 164 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 136 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 161 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 192 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 149 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 173 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 133 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 140 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 111 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 126 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 117 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 106 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 107 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 99 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 97 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 115 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 87 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 127 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 113 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 87 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 149 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 104 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 97 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 86 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 95 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 90 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 106 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 139 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 96 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 91 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 159 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 121 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 130 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 103 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 110 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2026-09-01: 64 positiveWeek of 2026-09-01: 4 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Attention

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Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

10
achievements tracked
81.9%
earned "Outside the Box"
52.2%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSSingle-playerSteam AchievementsCaptions availableFamily Sharing

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)14,97038%10

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

Where its players are

Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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