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Thing-in-Itself

Party for Introverts · 2017-01-05

Steam

AdventureCasualIndieSimulation

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: First person

Releases: Jan 05, 2017 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

“Thing-in-Itself” is a short interactive story about the struggles of understanding another human being. Using Immanuel Kant’s concept as a framework, it leads the player through stages of a relationship, exploring how perceptions may clash and surroundings can alter.

77%
positive of 127 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
60/100
IGDB user rating (2 ratings)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$2.49
steam price (US)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 13 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity up 86% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 45% of 20,038 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 3.2k–7.6k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 127 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.49 at Steam (2018-10-30) · bundled 4×via IsThereAnyDeal

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
232320172026Week of 2017-01-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2017-01-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2017-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2017-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2017-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2017-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Completion

10
achievements tracked
82.1%
earned "Hungry Hungry Henry"
43.8%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFamily Sharing

Player tags

DramaIndieAdventureEmotionalNarrativeMinimalistStory RichAtmosphericConversationVisual Novel

Census log

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

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