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The Space Between cover art

The Space Between

Christoph Frey · 2021-04-15

Steam

AdventureIndie

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: First person

Releases: Apr 06, 2019 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

The Space Between is a surreal short narrative experience in three acts about the walls we build for us.

83%
positive of 66 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$5.99
steam price (US)

The architect Martin Melanson, commissioned to build a theater, meets a woman named Clara, outside of his apartment complex at night. Attracted to each other, they visit the theater's building site. While they explore the unfinished stage, surrounded by scaffolds and lost in thoughts, reality slowly fades, where the curtain opens and a dark play about closeness and separation begins. The game's drawn-out, static nature, embedded in blurred PS1 visuals, supports its surreal plot and dialogues to create a dreamlike 40 - 50 minute experience, that should be played in one sitting.(Storyline via IGDB)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 11 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity up 38% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 53% of 23,247 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 1.3k–3.0k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 66 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $2.39 at Steam (2024-03-14) · bundled 1×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $5.99 · on sale 5 of 10 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
5520212026Week of 2021-04-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$5.99$2.392019-04-072026-07-092019-04-07 — best price $5.992021-04-22 — best price $5.992021-07-08 — best price $5.992021-11-01 — best price $5.992022-01-05 — best price $5.992022-07-07 — best price $5.992022-11-01 — best price $5.992023-07-13 — best price $5.992023-08-14 — best price $5.992023-11-02 — best price $5.992023-11-28 — best price $5.992024-01-04 — best price $5.992024-03-21 — best price $5.992024-07-20 — best price $5.992024-11-04 — best price $5.992024-12-04 — best price $5.992025-01-02 — best price $5.992025-03-20 — best price $5.992025-07-10 — best price $5.992025-10-06 — best price $5.992025-11-03 — best price $5.992026-01-05 — best price $5.992026-03-26 — best price $5.992026-07-09 — best price $5.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsPartial Controller SupportFamily Sharing

4 supported languages: English, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain

Player tags

DarkDramaHorrorMysterySurrealAdventureEmotionalAtmosphericExplorationExperimental

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.