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The Whispered World Special Edition cover art

The Whispered World Special Edition

Daedalic Entertainment · 2014-05-06

SteamGOG

AdventureIndie

Modes: Single player

Releases: May 06, 2014 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), May 06, 2014 (Mac), May 06, 2014 (Linux), Nov 24, 2015 (iOS)

When the fate of a world hangs in the balance, an unusual hero arises! The visually impressive adventure-epic The Whispered World is now available as a Special Edition for the first time. Let the Whispered World enchant you with its many animated details and fantastic characters.

7
playing now
76%
positive of 2.2k reviews
Mostly Positive
steam rating
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
70/100
IGDB user rating (11 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$19.99
steam price (US)

7 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 03:00 UTC (census sample)

The Whispered World is a 2009 point-and-click adventure video game developed by Daedalic Entertainment and published by Deep Silver in Europe and by Viva Media in the United States. The game was released for Microsoft Windows, macOS, Linux and iOS. A special edition was released in 2014 and a sequel titled Silence was released in 2016. The four-act game takes place in a fantasy world and features a melancholy twelve-year-old clown as its hero. The graphics are 2D and are all hand-drawn and animated.

Health check

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  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 21% of 11,332 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 54k–130k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 2,171 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

GOG$1.99-90%
lowest across shops (ITAD)$1.99-90%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $0.44 at Gamer Thor (2024-10-23) · bundled 10×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $19.99 · on sale 115 of 161 observed days · $1.55 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Players online

5322026-08-06 23:00 — 9 players2026-08-07 07:00 — 9 players2026-08-07 15:00 — 9 players2026-08-07 23:00 — 9 players2026-08-08 07:00 — 15 players2026-08-08 15:00 — 11 players2026-08-08 23:00 — 15 players2026-08-09 07:00 — 7 players2026-08-09 15:00 — 14 players2026-08-09 23:00 — 8 players2026-08-10 07:00 — 9 players2026-08-10 15:00 — 20 players2026-08-10 23:00 — 6 players2026-08-11 07:00 — 11 players2026-08-11 15:00 — 11 players2026-08-12 23:00 — 18 players2026-08-14 06:00 — 6 players2026-08-15 14:00 — 13 players2026-08-16 22:00 — 8 players2026-08-18 06:00 — 5 players2026-08-19 13:00 — 16 players2026-08-20 21:00 — 14 players2026-08-22 04:00 — 7 players2026-08-23 12:00 — 10 players2026-08-24 19:00 — 19 players2026-08-26 04:00 — 12 players2026-08-27 12:00 — 13 players2026-08-28 20:00 — 14 players2026-08-30 03:00 — 7 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$49.99$1.202015-01-012026-08-302015-01-01 — best price $3.402015-04-07 — best price $19.992015-07-07 — best price $3.992015-10-22 — best price $4.992016-01-28 — best price $3.992016-06-01 — best price $19.992016-10-03 — best price $19.992017-02-06 — best price $19.992017-07-31 — best price $19.992018-01-09 — best price $18.372018-06-18 — best price $2.002018-10-30 — best price $16.992019-03-01 — best price $2.002019-07-17 — best price $2.002019-11-25 — best price $19.992020-02-16 — best price $17.322020-05-27 — best price $1.992020-09-12 — best price $19.992020-12-18 — best price $19.992021-03-04 — best price $15.892021-06-04 — best price $1.592021-09-18 — best price $16.792021-12-13 — best price $1.592022-03-21 — best price $1.992022-07-08 — best price $15.892022-10-24 — best price $1.792023-02-08 — best price $19.992023-05-30 — best price $1.992023-09-13 — best price $19.992023-12-25 — best price $2.002024-04-06 — best price $14.692024-07-12 — best price $15.892024-10-11 — best price $1.992024-12-11 — best price $1.992025-05-06 — best price $1.662025-08-18 — best price $2.002025-11-05 — best price $19.992026-02-26 — best price $1.992026-06-09 — best price $1.992026-08-30 — best price $1.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

139122026-05-31 — 39 pageviews2026-06-03 — 24 pageviews2026-06-06 — 23 pageviews2026-06-09 — 19 pageviews2026-06-12 — 14 pageviews2026-06-15 — 29 pageviews2026-06-18 — 23 pageviews2026-06-21 — 25 pageviews2026-06-24 — 20 pageviews2026-06-27 — 34 pageviews2026-06-30 — 14 pageviews2026-07-03 — 33 pageviews2026-07-06 — 33 pageviews2026-07-09 — 83 pageviews2026-07-12 — 41 pageviews2026-07-15 — 24 pageviews2026-07-18 — 34 pageviews2026-07-21 — 15 pageviews2026-07-24 — 15 pageviews2026-07-27 — 43 pageviews2026-07-30 — 112 pageviews2026-08-02 — 35 pageviews2026-08-05 — 16 pageviews2026-08-08 — 26 pageviews2026-08-11 — 24 pageviews2026-08-14 — 43 pageviews2026-08-17 — 38 pageviews2026-08-20 — 21 pageviews2026-08-23 — 31 pageviews2026-08-26 — 28 pageviews2026-08-28 — 27 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

20
achievements tracked
35.9%
earned "Ball Spot"
9.4%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam Trading CardsSteam CloudCommentary availableFamily Sharing

5 supported languages: English, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Polish

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)4,61323%20

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

Player tags

2DFunnyIndieComedyPuzzleFantasyAdventureHand-drawnStory RichAtmospheric

Census log

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

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