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Wayhaven Chronicles: Book One cover art

Wayhaven Chronicles: Book One

Hosted Games · 2018-03-08

Steam

AdventureIndieRPG

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Text

Releases: Mar 08, 2018 (Linux), Mar 08, 2018 (iOS), Mar 08, 2018 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Mar 08, 2018 (Mac), Mar 08, 2018 (Android)

Your first case as a detective is forcing you to open your eyes to a world bigger than you thought. Or maybe it's better to keep them closed. Seems the supernatural didn’t get the memo that nothing exciting ever happens in the little town of Wayhaven.

92%
positive of 369 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
61/100
IGDB user rating (6 ratings)
Verified
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$7.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 18 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity up 29% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (56 reviews).
  • · Top 36% of 16,200 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 9.2k–22k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 369 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $2.99 at Steam (2018-03-09)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $7.99 · on sale 4 of 8 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
565620182026Week of 2018-03-01: 56 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-07-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-08-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-12-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 2 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$7.99$2.992018-03-092026-07-092018-03-09 — best price $2.992018-06-21 — best price $2.992018-11-21 — best price $2.992018-12-20 — best price $2.992019-02-04 — best price $2.992019-06-26 — best price $2.992019-10-28 — best price $2.992019-11-26 — best price $2.992019-12-19 — best price $2.992020-05-07 — best price $2.992020-06-25 — best price $2.992021-02-11 — best price $2.992021-06-24 — best price $2.992021-11-25 — best price $2.992021-12-22 — best price $2.992022-06-23 — best price $2.992022-11-22 — best price $2.992022-12-22 — best price $2.992023-01-19 — best price $7.992023-03-23 — best price $7.992023-04-13 — best price $7.992023-07-13 — best price $7.992023-11-28 — best price $7.992024-01-04 — best price $7.992024-03-21 — best price $7.992024-07-11 — best price $7.992024-12-04 — best price $7.992025-01-02 — best price $7.992025-03-20 — best price $7.992025-07-10 — best price $7.992025-10-06 — best price $7.992026-01-05 — best price $7.992026-03-26 — best price $7.992026-07-09 — best price $7.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxSingle-playerCaptions availableSteam CloudFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Player tags

RPGIndieLGBTQ+RomanceAdventureDetectiveStory RichText-BasedSingleplayerSupernatural

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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