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The Wake: Mourning Father, Mourning Mother

Somi · 2020-07-10

Steam

AdventureIndie

Modes: Single player

Releases: Jul 10, 2020 (Mac), Jul 10, 2020 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

The Wake is a record of past wounds opened at a three-day funeral. The journal is encoded with a simple substitution cipher that the player must break in order to reveal the writer’s psyche and discover the contradictions that define him.

0
playing now
81%
positive of 276 reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$4.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 09:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 50% of 11,404 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 5.5k–12k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 276 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $2.49 at Steam (2022-12-22) · bundled 1×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $4.99 · on sale 4 of 8 observed days (census price snapshots)

Players online

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Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$4.99$2.492020-07-102026-07-092020-07-10 — best price $4.492020-10-29 — best price $3.492020-11-25 — best price $3.492020-12-22 — best price $3.242021-02-11 — best price $3.492021-03-31 — best price $3.492021-06-24 — best price $3.492021-10-28 — best price $3.492021-11-24 — best price $3.492021-12-22 — best price $3.492022-06-23 — best price $3.242022-11-22 — best price $3.242022-12-22 — best price $2.492023-03-16 — best price $2.492023-06-29 — best price $2.492023-11-21 — best price $2.492023-12-21 — best price $2.492024-01-17 — best price $2.492024-03-14 — best price $2.492024-05-25 — best price $2.492024-06-27 — best price $2.492024-10-15 — best price $2.492024-11-27 — best price $2.492024-12-19 — best price $2.492025-03-13 — best price $2.492025-04-24 — best price $2.492025-06-26 — best price $2.492025-09-29 — best price $2.492025-12-18 — best price $2.492026-03-19 — best price $2.492026-06-25 — best price $2.492026-07-09 — best price $4.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsmacOSSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam CloudFamily Sharing1 DLC

4 supported languages: English, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese

Player tags

DramaIndiePuzzleHackingAdventureEducationSimulationStory RichText-BasedAtmospheric

Census log

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

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