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Uncover the Smoking Gun

ReLU Games, Inc. · 2024-06-23

Steam

AdventureCasualIndieSimulationStrategy

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: First person, Text

Releases: Jun 23, 2024 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

A Battle of Wits with AI: Solve the case by conversing with a suspect robot using GPT to gather evidence. What single truth emerges from countless dialogues and pieces of information?

96%
positive of 449 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
86/100
critic score (1 outlets, IGDB)
$19.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 42 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~5/week).
  • · Review velocity down 31% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 37% of 14,073 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 9.0k–20k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 449 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $7.99 at Steam (2026-06-17)via IsThereAnyDeal

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
686820242026Week of 2024-06-01: 66 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 68 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 44 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 56 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 2 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Completion

40
achievements tracked
94.8%
earned "Breaking the Silence"
46.4%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam Trading Cards1 DLC

10 supported languages: English, Korean, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Italian, Polish

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)1067%40

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

Player tags

CrimeMysteryColorfulStrategyAdventureDetectiveFuturisticSimulationStory RichText-Based

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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