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Welcome To The Dark Place

Zeekerss · 2025-10-24

Steam

AdventureIndieFree To Play

Modes: Single player

Releases: Oct 24, 2025 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

The train is the only escape.

88%
positive of 617 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Free
steam price (US)
Welcome To The Dark Place is a single-player text-based psychological horror video game developed and published by Zeekerss for Windows via Steam. It was first released in October 2025.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 22 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~3/week).
  • · Review velocity down 8% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (252 reviews).
  • · Top 32% of 13,880 Adventure games in the census by review count.

12-month high $0.00 · on sale 1 of 1 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
22122120252026Week of 2025-10-25: 221 positiveWeek of 2025-10-25: 31 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 56 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-11-08: 41 positiveWeek of 2025-11-08: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-11-15: 28 positiveWeek of 2025-11-15: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-11-22: 34 positiveWeek of 2025-11-22: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-11-29: 21 positiveWeek of 2025-11-29: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-12-06: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-12-06: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-12-13: 9 positiveWeek of 2025-12-13: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-12-20: 10 positiveWeek of 2025-12-20: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-12-27: 9 positiveWeek of 2025-12-27: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-03: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-01-10: 9 positiveWeek of 2026-01-17: 12 positiveWeek of 2026-01-17: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-24: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-01-24: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-31: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-01-31: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-02-07: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-02-07: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-02-14: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-02-21: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-02-21: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-28: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-02-28: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-07: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-03-07: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-14: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-03-14: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-21: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-03-21: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-28: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-04-04: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-04-11: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-04-18: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-18: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-04-25: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-25: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-02: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-02: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-09: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-05-16: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-05-16: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-05-23: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-05-23: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-30: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-05-30: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-06: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-06-13: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-06-20: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-06-27: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-07-04: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-11: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-07-18: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-07-25: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-08-08: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-08-15: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-08-15: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-08-22: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-08-29: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-29: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-09-05: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Attention

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Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

2
achievements tracked
5.5%
earned "Do a jig."
3.1%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsPartial Controller SupportFamily Sharing

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)3847%2

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

Census log

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

Players also track

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Similarity via IGDB.