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The Signal From Tölva cover art

The Signal From Tölva

Big Robot Ltd · 2017-04-10

SteamGOG

Action

Modes: Single player

Releases: Apr 10, 2017 (Mac), Apr 10, 2017 (Linux), Apr 10, 2017 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

The Signal From Tölva is an open-world first-person shooter set on a distant, haunted, future world. Unlock savage weapons and recruit robots to fight alongside you as rival factions struggle to discover the source of the mysterious signal. What you discover will decide the fate of a world.

0
playing now
68%
positive of 1.1k reviews
Mixed
steam rating
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
73/100
critic score (2 outlets, IGDB)
60/100
IGDB user rating (2 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$19.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 10:00 UTC (census sample)

The Signal From Tölva is an open world first-person shooter game developed and published by Big Robot. It was released on April 10, 2017 for Windows, MacOS and Linux. Taking place in the far future, the player character is a hacker-for-hire who hijacks a surveyor robot to investigate the barren world of Tölva in search of a strange signal. The game contains walking simulator elements, with tactical engagements being broken up by large segments of slow-paced exploration.

Health check

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  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 33% of 10,862 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 28k–67k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 1,120 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

GOG$9.99-50%
lowest across shops (ITAD)$9.99-50%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $1.00 at Fanatical (2021-07-29) · bundled 11×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $19.99 · on sale 30 of 56 observed days · $8.99 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Players online

202026-08-11 21:00 — 0 players2026-08-12 12:00 — 0 players2026-08-13 04:00 — 0 players2026-08-13 20:00 — 0 players2026-08-14 12:00 — 0 players2026-08-15 04:00 — 0 players2026-08-15 19:00 — 0 players2026-08-16 11:00 — 1 players2026-08-17 03:00 — 1 players2026-08-17 19:00 — 0 players2026-08-18 11:00 — 0 players2026-08-19 03:00 — 1 players2026-08-19 18:00 — 0 players2026-08-20 10:00 — 0 players2026-08-21 02:00 — 0 players2026-08-21 18:00 — 0 players2026-08-22 10:00 — 0 players2026-08-23 01:00 — 1 players2026-08-23 17:00 — 2 players2026-08-24 09:00 — 1 players2026-08-25 01:00 — 1 players2026-08-25 17:00 — 1 players2026-08-26 09:00 — 0 players2026-08-27 01:00 — 1 players2026-08-27 17:00 — 0 players2026-08-28 10:00 — 0 players2026-08-29 02:00 — 0 players2026-08-29 18:00 — 0 players2026-08-30 10:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$19.99$1.002017-04-102026-08-302017-04-10 — best price $19.992017-08-14 — best price $9.992017-11-01 — best price $19.992018-01-25 — best price $19.992018-04-10 — best price $19.992018-07-05 — best price $19.992018-11-21 — best price $9.992019-02-12 — best price $19.992019-05-30 — best price $4.992019-10-07 — best price $19.992020-01-10 — best price $19.992020-03-31 — best price $19.992020-05-12 — best price $14.692020-08-03 — best price $4.992020-11-25 — best price $4.992021-02-11 — best price $4.992021-05-27 — best price $4.992021-08-09 — best price $19.992021-11-24 — best price $4.992022-02-14 — best price $19.992022-06-06 — best price $4.992022-08-25 — best price $3.742022-11-29 — best price $19.992023-02-21 — best price $19.992023-05-29 — best price $19.992023-10-23 — best price $4.992023-12-21 — best price $3.752024-02-26 — best price $3.752024-05-02 — best price $19.992024-07-22 — best price $19.992024-11-19 — best price $9.992025-02-10 — best price $19.992025-05-05 — best price $9.992025-07-18 — best price $19.992025-10-21 — best price $9.992026-01-23 — best price $9.992026-03-30 — best price $9.992026-06-15 — best price $19.992026-08-25 — best price $9.992026-08-30 — best price $9.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

1302026-06-01 — 1 pageviews2026-06-04 — 5 pageviews2026-06-07 — 0 pageviews2026-06-10 — 6 pageviews2026-06-13 — 2 pageviews2026-06-16 — 2 pageviews2026-06-19 — 3 pageviews2026-06-22 — 0 pageviews2026-06-25 — 2 pageviews2026-06-28 — 2 pageviews2026-07-01 — 5 pageviews2026-07-04 — 3 pageviews2026-07-07 — 4 pageviews2026-07-10 — 3 pageviews2026-07-13 — 2 pageviews2026-07-16 — 2 pageviews2026-07-19 — 2 pageviews2026-07-22 — 0 pageviews2026-07-25 — 5 pageviews2026-07-28 — 4 pageviews2026-07-31 — 7 pageviews2026-08-03 — 2 pageviews2026-08-06 — 2 pageviews2026-08-09 — 4 pageviews2026-08-12 — 2 pageviews2026-08-15 — 1 pageviews2026-08-18 — 1 pageviews2026-08-21 — 1 pageviews2026-08-24 — 1 pageviews2026-08-27 — 2 pageviews2026-08-29 — 2 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

42
achievements tracked
50.9%
earned "Surveyor"
14.5%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam Trading CardsSteam CloudFamily Sharing

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)2,5986%42

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

Player tags

FPSIndieSpaceActionRobotsSci-fiShooterStealthFuturisticOpen World

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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