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Who Pressed Mute on Uncle Marcus?

Wales Interactive · 2022-03-18

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Adventure

Modes: Single player

Releases: Mar 18, 2022 (Xbox Series X|S), Mar 18, 2022 (Mac), Mar 18, 2022 (PlayStation 4), Mar 18, 2022 (Nintendo Switch), Mar 18, 2022 (Xbox One), Mar 18, 2022 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

An eccentric FMV murder mystery with a twist: someone has poisoned Uncle Marcus. Uncover the truth in the yearly family quiz and try to save him before it is too late.

0
playing now
66%
positive of 1.2k reviews
Mixed
steam rating
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
60/100
IGDB user rating (7 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$14.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 05:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 28% of 11,332 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 24k–54k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 1,200 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

Microsoft Store$12.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $2.99 at Steam (2024-05-22) · bundled 3×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $14.99 · on sale 15 of 31 observed days · $10.00 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Players online

302026-08-11 19:00 — 0 players2026-08-12 11:00 — 0 players2026-08-13 03:00 — 1 players2026-08-13 18:00 — 1 players2026-08-14 10:00 — 0 players2026-08-15 02:00 — 3 players2026-08-15 18:00 — 1 players2026-08-16 10:00 — 2 players2026-08-17 02:00 — 1 players2026-08-17 18:00 — 2 players2026-08-18 09:00 — 0 players2026-08-19 01:00 — 2 players2026-08-19 17:00 — 0 players2026-08-20 09:00 — 0 players2026-08-21 00:00 — 0 players2026-08-21 16:00 — 0 players2026-08-22 08:00 — 0 players2026-08-23 00:00 — 1 players2026-08-23 15:00 — 3 players2026-08-24 07:00 — 1 players2026-08-24 23:00 — 0 players2026-08-25 15:00 — 1 players2026-08-26 07:00 — 0 players2026-08-26 23:00 — 1 players2026-08-27 13:00 — 0 players2026-08-28 05:00 — 0 players2026-08-28 21:00 — 3 players2026-08-29 13:00 — 1 players2026-08-30 05:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$14.99$2.992022-03-042026-08-272022-03-04 — best price $11.692022-05-16 — best price $8.702022-07-23 — best price $5.972022-11-02 — best price $5.842022-11-23 — best price $5.842022-12-28 — best price $10.392023-02-16 — best price $12.992023-03-23 — best price $12.992023-05-11 — best price $12.992023-06-29 — best price $4.492023-10-18 — best price $3.742023-11-21 — best price $5.992024-01-10 — best price $12.992024-03-21 — best price $14.992024-05-22 — best price $2.992024-07-11 — best price $14.992024-08-03 — best price $14.992024-10-21 — best price $14.992024-11-27 — best price $2.992025-01-02 — best price $14.992025-03-03 — best price $6.742025-03-13 — best price $6.742025-04-16 — best price $14.992025-06-17 — best price $7.142025-08-07 — best price $6.492025-09-27 — best price $14.992025-10-27 — best price $2.992025-12-18 — best price $2.992026-02-09 — best price $5.192026-03-19 — best price $2.992026-05-02 — best price $2.992026-06-12 — best price $2.992026-08-27 — best price $12.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

17
achievements tracked
93.4%
earned "Sorry, kiddo"
36.4%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam CloudFamily Sharing

5 supported languages: English, French, German, Russian, Simplified Chinese

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)1,85239%17
PS4 (PlayStation)81279%18
Xbox One (Xbox)50863%17
PS5 (PlayStation)28385%18
Switch (Nintendo)40%0

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

Player tags

FMVDramaIndieCasualMysteryAdventureDetectiveRealisticConspiracyStory Rich

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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