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The Silence After

Vancouver Film School · 2025-12-04

Steam

StrategyFree To Play

Modes: Single player

Releases: Dec 04, 2025 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

The Silence After is a first-person atmospheric horror game where you play as a blind sole survivor following a distress signal through an apocalyptic reality, interacting with the environment and using your synesthetic ability to perceive sound as color to progress and avoid death.

93%
positive of 73 reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
Free
steam price (US)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 10 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 64% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 70% of 6,915 Strategy games in the census by review count.

12-month high $0.00 · on sale 2 of 2 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
262620252026Week of 2025-12-04: 26 positiveWeek of 2025-12-11: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-12-18: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-12-18: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-25: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-08: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-01-08: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-15: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-01-22: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-01-29: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-02-12: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-02-19: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-02-26: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-02-26: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-05: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-26: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-04-09: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-21: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-28: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-06: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-27: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerFamily Sharing

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