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The Specter's Desire

Themisian · 2024-05-24

Steam

Indie

Modes: Single player

Releases: May 24, 2024 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), May 24, 2024 (Mac)

This year's Desire Hierarchy has begun. The stakes are now deadly. Hop into The Specter's Desire, a Visual Novel in which you play against the city's top talents to save your parents. Includes puzzling gameplay that has you tearing down arguments, hatching schemes, and revealing the truth!

1
playing now
98%
positive of 56 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
$19.99
steam price (US)

1 players in-game as of 2026-09-18 01:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 1 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 14 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity up 8% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 60% of 28,840 Indie games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 1.1k–2.5k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 56 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $7.99 at Steam (2026-01-14)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $19.99 · on sale 1 of 2 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
8820242026Week of 2024-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Details

WindowsmacOSSingle-playerCommentary availableRemote Play TogetherFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Player tags

2DHorrorStrategyStylizedCard GameDetectiveNarrationStory RichText-BasedDark Comedy

Census log

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

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