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The Story of The Flood

ZHANG FAN · SHEN JIAWEI · 2022-12-22

Steam

AdventureCasualIndie

Modes: Single player

Releases: Dec 23, 2022 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Dec 23, 2022 (Mac), Dec 23, 2022 (Linux)

Gods decide to bring the flood of water upon the earth. Salvage what you think is valuable and bring it back to base. It's a psychological test of the apocalypse, also an interactive experiment about trade-offs.

The Story of The Flood is a 2022 Adventure Casual Indie game priced at $4.99, estimated to have 50,000 .. 100,000 owners, with a Mostly Positive review sentiment (74% of 78 reviews).

0
playing now
74%
positive of 78 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$4.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 19:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 6 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity up 0% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (24 reviews).
  • · Top 45% of 28,739 Adventure games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-02

Estimated sales: 1.6k–3.5k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 78 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.49 at Steam (2023-11-21)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $4.99 · on sale 6 of 13 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
151520222026Week of 2022-04-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

002026-09-15 04:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 13:00 — 0 players2026-09-17 20:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 04:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 11:00 — 0 players2026-09-21 19:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 02:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 10:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 17:00 — 0 players2026-09-27 01:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 08:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 16:00 — 0 players2026-09-30 23:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 07:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 14:00 — 0 players2026-10-04 23:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 06:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 14:00 — 0 players2026-10-08 21:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 05:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 12:00 — 0 players2026-10-12 20:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 03:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 19:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$4.99$0.492022-04-282026-08-022022-04-28 — best price $3.592022-06-23 — best price $3.592022-10-10 — best price $3.592022-11-22 — best price $3.592022-12-22 — best price $3.192023-03-16 — best price $1.992023-04-10 — best price $1.992023-04-20 — best price $0.992023-07-13 — best price $0.992023-09-18 — best price $0.992023-10-30 — best price $0.992023-11-28 — best price $0.992024-01-04 — best price $0.992024-03-04 — best price $0.992024-03-21 — best price $0.992024-04-15 — best price $0.992024-06-03 — best price $0.992024-07-11 — best price $0.992024-09-16 — best price $0.992024-11-18 — best price $0.992024-12-04 — best price $0.992025-01-02 — best price $0.992025-01-13 — best price $0.992025-03-20 — best price $0.992025-04-07 — best price $0.992025-05-26 — best price $0.992025-07-10 — best price $0.992025-08-18 — best price $1.492025-09-29 — best price $1.492025-10-17 — best price $4.992026-01-05 — best price $4.992026-03-26 — best price $4.992026-04-06 — best price $4.992026-05-25 — best price $4.992026-07-09 — best price $4.992026-08-02 — best price $4.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

24
achievements tracked
43.8%
earned "Emergency Stockpile"
4.6%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFamily Sharing

6 supported languages: English, Russian, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Korean

Player tags

CasualSailingSurvivalAdventureComic BookMinimalistRogue-liteExplorationExperimentalChoices Matter

Census log

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

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