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The USB Stick Found in the Grass cover art

The USB Stick Found in the Grass

Marcin Borkowski · BPP · 2021-01-29

Steam

Indie

Modes: Single player

Releases: Jan 29, 2021 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

A forensic challenge – find out who the owner of the USB stick was and reconstruct their story.

The USB Stick Found in the Grass is a 2021 Indie game priced at $9.99, with an estimated 50,000 to 100,000 owners and a Mostly Negative sentiment (39% of 206 reviews).

0
playing now
39%
positive of 206 reviews
Mostly Negative
steam's rating (official)
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
bronze
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$9.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-15 11:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 1 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~0/week).
  • · Review velocity down 50% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (10 reviews).
  • · Top 25% of 50,300 Indie games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-01

Estimated sales: 4.1k–9.3k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 206 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $4.99 at Steam (2025-10-01) · bundled 1×via IsThereAnyDeal

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

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
6620212026Week of 2021-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

102026-09-15 20:00 — 0 players2026-09-17 04:00 — 1 players2026-09-18 12:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 19:00 — 0 players2026-09-21 03:00 — 0 players2026-09-22 10:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 18:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 01:00 — 0 players2026-09-26 09:00 — 0 players2026-09-27 16:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 00:00 — 0 players2026-09-30 07:00 — 0 players2026-10-01 15:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 22:00 — 0 players2026-10-04 06:00 — 0 players2026-10-05 14:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 22:00 — 0 players2026-10-08 05:00 — 0 players2026-10-09 13:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 20:00 — 0 players2026-10-12 04:00 — 0 players2026-10-13 11:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 19:00 — 0 players2026-10-15 11:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$9.99$4.992021-01-292026-03-262021-01-29 — best price $7.992021-02-05 — best price $9.992021-05-24 — best price $7.992021-05-31 — best price $9.992021-10-28 — best price $7.992021-11-01 — best price $9.992022-01-29 — best price $7.992022-02-05 — best price $9.992022-06-23 — best price $6.992022-07-07 — best price $9.992022-11-22 — best price $6.992022-11-29 — best price $9.992022-12-22 — best price $6.992023-01-05 — best price $9.992023-02-20 — best price $5.992023-02-27 — best price $9.992023-03-16 — best price $6.992023-03-23 — best price $9.992023-11-21 — best price $5.992023-11-28 — best price $9.992024-01-29 — best price $6.992024-02-05 — best price $9.992024-06-27 — best price $5.992024-07-11 — best price $9.992024-11-27 — best price $5.992024-12-04 — best price $9.992025-01-29 — best price $5.992025-02-05 — best price $9.992025-07-02 — best price $5.992025-07-10 — best price $9.992025-10-01 — best price $4.992025-10-06 — best price $9.992026-01-12 — best price $4.992026-01-19 — best price $9.992026-03-19 — best price $4.992026-03-26 — best price $9.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

3
achievements tracked
33.9%
earned "file1.zip"
25.2%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)87188%3

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

Player tags

IndiePuzzleDetectiveEmotionalNarrationMinimalistText-BasedExperimentalSingleplayerInvestigation

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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