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The Stairway 7 - Anomaly Hunt Loop Horror Game cover art

The Stairway 7 - Anomaly Hunt Loop Horror Game

Steelkrill Studio · 2024-05-17

Steam

ActionAdventureIndieSimulation

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer · Perspectives: First person

Releases: May 18, 2024 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

The Stairway 7 is an endless loop anomaly hunt and observation "spot the difference" game where you are stuck in a endless loop of stairways with a cat and you have to observe your surroundings carefully to reach the exit. Anomalies are watching, and ready to hunt you down. Don't take them with you.

86%
positive of 174 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$8.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 10 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 41% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (43 reviews).
  • · Top 31% of 27,908 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 3.5k–7.8k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 174 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

lowest across shops (ITAD)$8.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $6.29 at Steam (2025-10-27) · bundled 3×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $8.99 · on sale 9 of 18 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
383820242026Week of 2024-05-01: 38 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$8.99$6.292024-05-172026-10-082024-05-17 — best price $7.642024-06-27 — best price $6.742024-08-12 — best price $7.642024-09-23 — best price $7.192024-11-27 — best price $6.742024-12-19 — best price $7.192025-02-17 — best price $7.642025-03-13 — best price $7.642025-04-17 — best price $8.992025-06-02 — best price $8.992025-07-10 — best price $8.992025-08-11 — best price $8.992025-10-06 — best price $8.992025-11-03 — best price $8.992026-01-05 — best price $8.992026-01-24 — best price $8.992026-03-02 — best price $8.992026-03-26 — best price $8.992026-04-20 — best price $8.992026-06-01 — best price $8.992026-07-09 — best price $8.992026-10-08 — best price $8.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

12
achievements tracked
90.2%
earned "Ginger Cat"
51.1%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerMulti-playerFamily Sharing

12 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Czech, Dutch, Japanese, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Turkish

Player tags

3DActionArcadeHorrorPuzzleSandboxLife SimAdventureSimulationExploration

Census log

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

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