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The Watchmaker

Micropsia Games SpA · 2018-05-17

SteamPlayStation Store

ActionAdventureIndie

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Third person

Releases: TBD (Xbox One), Mar 25, 2022 (PlayStation 4), Oct 08, 2020 (Nintendo Switch), May 17, 2018 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

The Watchmaker is an action adventure set in a strange steampunk world of giant clock mechanisms, where time has gone mad. Join Alexander, a clock tower keeper, on his quest to restore time to its natural rhythm!

The Watchmaker is an Action, Adventure and Indie game priced at $1.99 released in 2018, with an estimated owner base of 20,000 .. 50,000 and a Mixed sentiment across 82 reviews.

0
playing now
49%
positive of 82 reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
70/100
IGDB user rating (0 ratings)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$1.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 08:00 UTC (census sample)

But one day Alexander is awakened by a mysterious voice. This disembodied voice alerts him that something has gone wrong: someone, some unknown being, has sabotaged his beautiful tower. With the clock not working properly, time has gone mad. Consequently, Alexander starts ageing abnormally quickly, leaving him only a handful of time to repair the damage. But Alexander must push on to save the clock and restore time to its natural rhythm, all while gradually uncovering the mysteries of the tower and its even stranger past.(Storyline via IGDB)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 6 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity up 100% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 42% of 27,661 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-01

Estimated sales: 2.0k–4.9k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 82 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $1.49 at Steam (2022-12-22) · bundled 3×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $11.22 · on sale 11 of 26 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
131320182026Week of 2018-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

002026-09-15 09:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 17:00 — 0 players2026-09-18 01:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 08:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 16:00 — 0 players2026-09-22 00:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 07:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 15:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 22:00 — 0 players2026-09-27 06:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 13:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 21:00 — 0 players2026-10-01 04:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 12:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 20:00 — 0 players2026-10-05 04:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 11:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 19:00 — 0 players2026-10-09 02:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 10:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 17:00 — 0 players2026-10-13 01:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 08:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$14.99$1.492018-04-202026-08-262018-04-20 — best price $9.992018-07-06 — best price $14.992018-08-22 — best price $14.992018-11-06 — best price $13.492018-12-10 — best price $3.742019-01-25 — best price $12.742019-03-02 — best price $14.992019-04-22 — best price $3.742019-06-01 — best price $14.992019-07-12 — best price $14.992019-08-27 — best price $14.992019-10-20 — best price $14.992019-11-27 — best price $2.242019-12-19 — best price $2.242020-01-22 — best price $2.242020-02-20 — best price $2.242020-04-10 — best price $1.802020-05-11 — best price $2.242020-07-03 — best price $2.242020-08-04 — best price $14.992020-09-09 — best price $2.242020-10-15 — best price $14.992020-11-23 — best price $2.252020-12-22 — best price $3.742021-01-21 — best price $3.192021-02-24 — best price $3.742021-04-10 — best price $14.992021-05-10 — best price $3.182021-06-15 — best price $3.742021-10-11 — best price $11.012022-12-09 — best price $11.012023-11-21 — best price $1.892024-04-15 — best price $9.992024-12-05 — best price $1.492025-09-22 — best price $9.992026-04-15 — best price $2.492026-08-26 — best price $1.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

21
achievements tracked
66.5%
earned "Master Engineer"
12.6%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam CloudRemote Play on TVFamily Sharing

6 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Russian

Player tags

IndieActionPuzzleAdventureSteampunkPlatformer3D PlatformerPuzzle-PlatformerTime Manipulation

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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