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Where the Music Dies

Red Skald · 2024-01-05

Steam

IndieSimulationFree To Play

Modes: Single player

Releases: Jan 05, 2024 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

A short visual novel about dealing with loss. You explore a festival filled with old memories and regret. Where the voices of the dead never stay quite dead. Will you manage to change, before it's too late?

Where the Music Dies is a free-to-play Indie, Simulation, Free To Play game released in 2024, with a Positive review sentiment (95% of 43 reviews).— census verdict as of 2026-09-27

95%
positive of 43 reviews
Positive
steam's rating (official)
Unsupported
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Unsupported
Free
steam price (US)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 9 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 61% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 58% of 38,775 Indie games in the census by review count.

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
111120242026Week of 2024-01-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-09-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerFamily Sharing1 DLC

1 supported languages: English

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2024-01-05 (Steam store data)

Census log

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