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There's Something In The Ice

JustTomcuk · 2024-03-25

Steam

AdventureIndieSimulation

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: First person

Releases: Mar 25, 2024 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

In 2015, three scientists at the Antarctic research station "Zarya" drilled into the ice to a depth of 2 kilometers and took samples for study... It seems that what they found was not at all what they were looking for...

75%
positive of 186 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$4.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 28 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~4/week).
  • · Review velocity down 12% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 43% of 17,648 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 3.7k–8.4k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 186 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $2.24 at Steam (2026-01-09)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $4.99 · on sale 12 of 24 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
292920242026Week of 2024-03-01: 29 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-09-01: 2 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$4.99$2.242024-03-252026-08-272024-03-25 — best price $4.492024-05-20 — best price $4.242024-06-27 — best price $3.492024-08-05 — best price $3.992024-09-11 — best price $3.742024-10-28 — best price $3.242024-11-27 — best price $3.242024-12-19 — best price $2.992025-01-25 — best price $3.492025-03-13 — best price $2.742025-03-27 — best price $4.992025-05-07 — best price $4.992025-06-13 — best price $4.992025-07-10 — best price $4.992025-07-20 — best price $4.992025-08-26 — best price $4.992025-10-06 — best price $4.992025-11-03 — best price $4.992025-12-10 — best price $4.992026-01-05 — best price $4.992026-01-16 — best price $4.992026-02-24 — best price $4.992026-04-02 — best price $4.992026-05-09 — best price $4.992026-06-15 — best price $4.992026-07-09 — best price $4.992026-07-22 — best price $4.992026-08-27 — best price $4.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

7
achievements tracked
97.2%
earned "Snowstorm"
74.2%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Player tags

3D1980sAliensHorrorSci-fiMysteryThrillerAdventureRealisticAtmospheric

Census log

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

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