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The Upturned

Zeekerss · 2022-03-23

Steam

ActionAdventureIndie

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Third person

Releases: Mar 23, 2022 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

A frantic adventure. Welcome to the Upturned Inn: a grand hotel for the dead! You just want to find your room.

The Upturned is an Action, Adventure, and Indie game released in 2022, priced at $9.99, with an Overwhelmingly Positive review sentiment (99% of 2719 reviews) and an estimated owner base of 50,000 .. 100,000.

1
playing now
99%
positive of 2.7k reviews
Overwhelmingly Positive
steam's rating (official)
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Verified
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$9.99
steam price (US)

1 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 17:00 UTC (census sample)

You have just arrived in the afterlife, soon to stumble upon the grand Upturned Inn--a hotel for the dead.(Storyline via IGDB)

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 1 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 175 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~22/week).
  • · Review velocity down 12% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 9% of 27,649 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-30

Estimated sales: 54k–122k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 2,719 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $5.99 at Steam (2025-12-18)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $9.99 · on sale 2 of 4 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
27927920222026Week of 2022-03-01: 48 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 57 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 48 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 99 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 69 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 32 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 28 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 34 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 28 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 28 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 26 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 33 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 31 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 33 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 43 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 28 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 85 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 181 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 279 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 140 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 110 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 70 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 46 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 70 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 92 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 47 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 62 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 47 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 32 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 55 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 52 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 36 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 34 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 46 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 28 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 28 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 32 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 18 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

1002026-09-15 02:00 — 1 players2026-09-16 10:00 — 1 players2026-09-17 18:00 — 1 players2026-09-19 01:00 — 5 players2026-09-20 09:00 — 1 players2026-09-21 17:00 — 5 players2026-09-23 00:00 — 1 players2026-09-24 08:00 — 2 players2026-09-25 15:00 — 0 players2026-09-26 23:00 — 5 players2026-09-28 06:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 14:00 — 1 players2026-09-30 21:00 — 3 players2026-10-02 05:00 — 3 players2026-10-03 12:00 — 0 players2026-10-04 20:00 — 4 players2026-10-06 04:00 — 2 players2026-10-07 11:00 — 2 players2026-10-08 19:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 02:00 — 4 players2026-10-11 10:00 — 1 players2026-10-12 18:00 — 3 players2026-10-14 01:00 — 3 players2026-10-14 17:00 — 1 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
292Mar 2022Aug 2026Mar 2022 — avg 7 · peak 23May 2022 — avg 4 · peak 37Jul 2022 — avg 5 · peak 18Sep 2022 — avg 3 · peak 12Nov 2022 — avg 3 · peak 12Jan 2023 — avg 3 · peak 10Mar 2023 — avg 3 · peak 14May 2023 — avg 2 · peak 9Jul 2023 — avg 4 · peak 14Sep 2023 — avg 2 · peak 8Nov 2023 — avg 6 · peak 27Jan 2024 — avg 29 · peak 74Mar 2024 — avg 13 · peak 44May 2024 — avg 5 · peak 15Jul 2024 — avg 8 · peak 25Sep 2024 — avg 5 · peak 15Nov 2024 — avg 4 · peak 18Jan 2025 — avg 5 · peak 16Mar 2025 — avg 3 · peak 12Jun 2025 — avg 4 · peak 16Aug 2025 — avg 2 · peak 7Dec 2025 — avg 5 · peak 18Feb 2026 — avg 3 · peak 10Jun 2026 — avg 4 · peak 16Aug 2026 — avg 2 · peak 7
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$9.99$5.992022-03-232026-03-262022-03-23 — best price $8.992022-03-30 — best price $9.992022-06-24 — best price $8.492022-07-07 — best price $9.992022-10-25 — best price $8.492022-11-01 — best price $9.992022-12-22 — best price $7.992023-01-05 — best price $9.992023-03-16 — best price $8.492023-03-23 — best price $9.992023-06-29 — best price $7.992023-07-13 — best price $9.992024-03-14 — best price $7.992024-03-21 — best price $9.992024-06-27 — best price $7.492024-07-11 — best price $9.992024-11-27 — best price $6.992024-12-04 — best price $9.992025-07-02 — best price $6.492025-07-10 — best price $9.992025-12-18 — best price $5.992026-01-05 — best price $9.992026-03-19 — best price $6.492026-03-26 — best price $9.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

8
achievements tracked
95.3%
earned "Safety From The Storm"
41.9%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportFamily Sharing1 DLC

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2022-03-23 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)91712%8

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Where its players are

Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.

Player tags

3DActionCombatComedyMysteryPhysicsCartoonyStylizedAdventureStory Rich

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.