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The Next Door

Labory · SA Industry · 2016-03-22

Steam

AdventureCasualIndie

Modes: Single player

Releases: Mar 22, 2016 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

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The Next Door is an Adventure, Casual, and Indie game released in 2016, priced at $3.24, with an estimated 500,000 to 1,000,000 owners and a Mixed review sentiment (49% of 1113 reviews).

6
playing now
49%
positive of 1.1k reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
500,000–1,000,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
40/100
IGDB user rating (1 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$3.24
steam price (US)

6 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 12:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 6 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 112 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~14/week).
  • · Review velocity down 7% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 13% of 28,832 Adventure games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-31

Estimated sales: 28k–67k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 1,118 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.49 at Steam (2020-09-28) · bundled 1×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $4.99 · on sale 8 of 16 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
232320172026Week of 2018-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 23 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 20 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 5 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

602026-09-15 13:00 — 1 players2026-09-16 21:00 — 4 players2026-09-18 05:00 — 2 players2026-09-19 12:00 — 1 players2026-09-20 20:00 — 3 players2026-09-22 03:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 11:00 — 1 players2026-09-24 18:00 — 0 players2026-09-26 02:00 — 1 players2026-09-27 09:00 — 2 players2026-09-28 17:00 — 2 players2026-09-30 00:00 — 0 players2026-10-01 08:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 15:00 — 5 players2026-10-03 23:00 — 1 players2026-10-05 07:00 — 3 players2026-10-06 15:00 — 2 players2026-10-07 22:00 — 1 players2026-10-09 06:00 — 2 players2026-10-10 13:00 — 3 players2026-10-11 21:00 — 4 players2026-10-13 04:00 — 1 players2026-10-14 12:00 — 6 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
2250Mar 2016Aug 2026Mar 2016 — avg 0 · peak 2Jun 2016 — avg 145 · peak 1,254Sep 2016 — avg 15 · peak 92Dec 2016 — avg 9 · peak 58Mar 2017 — avg 20 · peak 242Jun 2017 — avg 6 · peak 455Sep 2017 — avg 11 · peak 1,493Dec 2017 — avg 6 · peak 71Mar 2018 — avg 3 · peak 10Jun 2018 — avg 3 · peak 168Sep 2018 — avg 7 · peak 119Dec 2018 — avg 2 · peak 30Mar 2019 — avg 1 · peak 138Jun 2019 — avg 1 · peak 4Sep 2019 — avg 1 · peak 3Dec 2019 — avg 1 · peak 4Mar 2020 — avg 1 · peak 4Jun 2020 — avg 1 · peak 13Sep 2020 — avg 8 · peak 201Dec 2020 — avg 3 · peak 31Mar 2021 — avg 9 · peak 347Jun 2021 — avg 2 · peak 76Oct 2021 — avg 9 · peak 204Jan 2022 — avg 13 · peak 182Apr 2022 — avg 209 · peak 4,015Jul 2022 — avg 5 · peak 50Oct 2022 — avg 12 · peak 382Jan 2023 — avg 3 · peak 17Apr 2023 — avg 3 · peak 16Jul 2023 — avg 17 · peak 119Jul 2024 — avg 6 · peak 284Dec 2024 — avg 2 · peak 24May 2025 — avg 2 · peak 26Aug 2025 — avg 5 · peak 60Dec 2025 — avg 4 · peak 9Mar 2026 — avg 5 · peak 16Jul 2026 — avg 3 · peak 9Aug 2026 — avg 3 · peak 8
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$17.99$0.492016-03-222026-08-242016-03-22 — best price $8.992016-06-07 — best price $17.992017-07-05 — best price $0.992018-01-04 — best price $0.992020-11-02 — best price $0.992020-12-22 — best price $0.492021-02-11 — best price $0.492021-05-09 — best price $0.492021-07-10 — best price $0.492021-10-28 — best price $0.492021-11-24 — best price $0.492022-01-16 — best price $0.492022-03-28 — best price $4.992022-06-20 — best price $4.992022-08-01 — best price $4.992022-11-29 — best price $4.992023-01-05 — best price $4.992023-03-10 — best price $4.992023-04-23 — best price $4.992023-07-27 — best price $4.992023-11-08 — best price $4.992023-12-21 — best price $0.492024-03-04 — best price $0.492024-05-27 — best price $0.492024-07-12 — best price $0.492024-10-23 — best price $0.492024-12-06 — best price $0.492025-03-13 — best price $0.492025-05-04 — best price $0.492025-08-25 — best price $3.992025-10-08 — best price $3.992025-12-18 — best price $3.492026-03-19 — best price $3.492026-05-20 — best price $3.492026-08-24 — best price $3.24
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam Trading CardsFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Player tags

IndieCasualPuzzleSurrealAdventureFirst-PersonWalking Simulator

Census log

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

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