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Viy: Retold Story cover art

Viy: Retold Story

Crazy House · First Games Interactive · 2021-12-08

Steam

Adventure

Modes: Single player

Releases: Dec 09, 2021 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

the game in the quest genre is based on the Gogol's story 'Vij'.

78%
positive of 50 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
$5.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 4 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 50% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (18 reviews).
  • · Top 64% of 18,785 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 1.0k–2.3k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 50 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $1.79 at Steam (2025-07-29)via IsThereAnyDeal

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
161620212026Week of 2021-12-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerFamily Sharing

Player tags

FMVSurvivalAdventureCinematicRealisticOld SchoolStory RichAtmosphericExplorationSupernatural

Census log

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