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The Slaughter: Act One cover art

The Slaughter: Act One

Alex Francois · Brainchild · 2016-01-28

Steam

AdventureIndie

Modes: Single player

Releases: Jan 28, 2016 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Jan 28, 2016 (Mac), Jan 28, 2016 (iOS)

The Slaughter is a noir point-and-click adventure set in Victorian London, laced with adult themes and dark humour. Follow the trail of a killer through atmospheric London locations and surreal dream worlds, meeting a cast of interesting, insane and eccentrically British characters along the way.

0
playing now
84%
positive of 144 reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
70/100
IGDB user rating (0 ratings)
$6.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 07:00 UTC (census sample)

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  • · Top 61% of 11,486 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 3.6k–8.6k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 144 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $1.74 at Steam (2017-06-23) · bundled 2×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $6.99 · on sale 6 of 12 observed days (census price snapshots)

Players online

102026-08-11 18:00 — 0 players2026-08-12 09:00 — 0 players2026-08-13 01:00 — 0 players2026-08-13 17:00 — 1 players2026-08-14 09:00 — 0 players2026-08-15 01:00 — 0 players2026-08-15 16:00 — 0 players2026-08-16 08:00 — 0 players2026-08-17 00:00 — 0 players2026-08-17 16:00 — 0 players2026-08-18 08:00 — 0 players2026-08-19 00:00 — 0 players2026-08-19 15:00 — 0 players2026-08-20 07:00 — 0 players2026-08-20 23:00 — 0 players2026-08-21 15:00 — 0 players2026-08-22 06:00 — 0 players2026-08-22 22:00 — 0 players2026-08-23 14:00 — 0 players2026-08-24 06:00 — 0 players2026-08-24 22:00 — 0 players2026-08-25 14:00 — 0 players2026-08-26 06:00 — 0 players2026-08-26 22:00 — 0 players2026-08-27 14:00 — 0 players2026-08-28 06:00 — 0 players2026-08-28 22:00 — 0 players2026-08-29 14:00 — 0 players2026-08-30 07:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$8.99$1.742016-01-282026-07-092016-01-28 — best price $8.092016-02-17 — best price $7.992016-05-19 — best price $3.992016-07-11 — best price $3.992016-09-22 — best price $7.992016-11-29 — best price $7.992017-03-14 — best price $6.992017-06-23 — best price $1.742017-11-28 — best price $6.992018-06-22 — best price $2.792018-11-01 — best price $6.992019-03-10 — best price $3.992019-05-23 — best price $7.992019-08-19 — best price $6.992019-10-28 — best price $1.952019-11-27 — best price $3.492020-01-02 — best price $6.992020-03-09 — best price $2.792020-05-21 — best price $6.992020-08-12 — best price $6.992020-11-25 — best price $3.492021-06-03 — best price $3.492021-11-01 — best price $6.992022-01-05 — best price $6.992022-05-23 — best price $5.242022-08-22 — best price $3.492022-12-22 — best price $3.492023-05-22 — best price $6.992023-11-02 — best price $3.492023-12-18 — best price $6.992024-03-14 — best price $3.492024-07-11 — best price $6.992024-11-27 — best price $5.242025-03-20 — best price $6.992025-09-29 — best price $3.492026-01-05 — best price $6.992026-07-08 — best price $3.492026-07-09 — best price $6.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxSingle-playerSteam Trading CardsFamily Sharing1 DLC

1 supported languages: English

Player tags

DarkNoirCrimeIndieRetroMysteryAdventureDetectiveDark HumorHistorical

Census log

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

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