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Why Am I Dead At Sea

Peltast Software · 2015-05-11

Steam

AdventureIndieRPG

Modes: Single player

Releases: May 12, 2015 (Mac), May 12, 2015 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Why Am I Dead At Sea is an adventure game where you solve the mystery of your own murder. As a ghost, you will have to possess people and use them to investigate your surroundings. But in this place no one is who they seem...and everyone has a secret.

0
playing now
95%
positive of 428 reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
80/100
IGDB user rating (4 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$4.99
steam price (US)

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

Health check

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  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 43% of 11,424 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 11k–26k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 428 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.99 at Steam (2018-02-05)via IsThereAnyDeal

Players online

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Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$9.99$0.992015-05-112024-11-082015-05-11 — best price $7.992015-10-29 — best price $5.992015-12-22 — best price $4.992016-03-14 — best price $4.992016-07-02 — best price $4.992016-07-11 — best price $4.992016-07-14 — best price $4.992016-09-12 — best price $4.992017-01-02 — best price $4.992017-03-20 — best price $4.992017-05-22 — best price $4.992018-01-04 — best price $4.992018-02-12 — best price $4.992018-05-28 — best price $4.992018-07-05 — best price $4.992018-10-15 — best price $4.992019-01-03 — best price $4.992019-07-09 — best price $4.992020-01-02 — best price $4.992020-03-26 — best price $4.992020-09-07 — best price $4.992024-01-04 — best price $4.992024-11-08 — best price $4.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsmacOSFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam Trading CardsFamily Sharing

2 supported languages: English, Russian

Player tags

RPGIndieMysteryAdventureDetectiveStory RichSingleplayerPixel GraphicsGreat SoundtrackMultiple Endings

Census log

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

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