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The Method of Hiding a Body

Sea of Ghosts · 2024-05-21

Steam

AdventureIndie

Modes: Single player

Releases: May 21, 2024 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

A story-driven horror puzzle game where the player takes on the role of a resentful ghost, possessing others in order to search for her own corpse.

0
playing now
91%
positive of 92 reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
$3.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 13:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 13 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity up 18% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 68% of 11,362 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 1.8k–4.1k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 92 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

lowest across shops (ITAD)$3.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $1.99 at Steam (2026-06-25)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $3.99 · on sale 11 of 23 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
151520242026Week of 2024-05-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 3 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

102026-08-22 13:00 — 0 players2026-08-23 04:00 — 0 players2026-08-23 20:00 — 0 players2026-08-24 12:00 — 1 players2026-08-25 04:00 — 0 players2026-08-25 20:00 — 0 players2026-08-26 12:00 — 0 players2026-08-27 05:00 — 0 players2026-08-27 21:00 — 1 players2026-08-28 13:00 — 0 players2026-08-29 05:00 — 0 players2026-08-29 21:00 — 0 players2026-08-30 13:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$5.99$1.992024-05-222026-08-172024-05-22 — best price $5.092024-06-27 — best price $5.392024-07-29 — best price $4.792024-09-09 — best price $4.492024-10-28 — best price $4.792024-11-09 — best price $3.992024-12-04 — best price $3.992024-12-16 — best price $3.992025-01-02 — best price $3.992025-02-17 — best price $3.992025-03-20 — best price $3.992025-04-21 — best price $3.992025-06-02 — best price $3.992025-07-17 — best price $3.992025-09-01 — best price $3.992025-10-06 — best price $3.992025-11-03 — best price $3.992025-12-15 — best price $3.992026-01-05 — best price $3.992026-02-02 — best price $3.992026-03-16 — best price $3.992026-03-26 — best price $3.992026-04-27 — best price $3.992026-06-08 — best price $3.992026-07-09 — best price $3.992026-08-17 — best price $3.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

7
achievements tracked
37%
earned "Ending A"
26.8%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerFamily Sharing

4 supported languages: English, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese

Player tags

GoreDramaIndiePuzzleMysteryViolentAdventureStory RichExplorationFirst-Person

Census log

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

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