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Will Glow the Wisp cover art

Will Glow the Wisp

PartTimeIndie · 2017-09-15

Steam

ActionIndie

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Side view

Releases: Sep 15, 2017 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Navigate through psychadelic mazes to chill electornic beats. Imagine a mix between Super Meat Boy and Geometry Wars.

Will Glow the Wisp is an Action and Indie game released in 2017, priced at $1.99, with an estimated 50,000 to 100,000 owners and a Very Positive review sentiment (82% of 1669 reviews).

38
playing now
82%
positive of 1.7k reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
40/100
critic score (1 outlets, IGDB)
53/100
IGDB user rating (5 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$1.99
steam price (US)

38 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 17:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 38 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 3 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~0/week).
  • · Review velocity up 200% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 12% of 27,649 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-30

Estimated sales: 42k–100k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 1,669 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.37 at Steam (2023-01-26) · bundled 2×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $1.99 · on sale 7 of 14 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
4420172026Week of 2017-09-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

6812026-09-15 02:00 — 56 players2026-09-16 10:00 — 4 players2026-09-17 18:00 — 6 players2026-09-19 01:00 — 8 players2026-09-20 09:00 — 7 players2026-09-21 17:00 — 19 players2026-09-23 00:00 — 7 players2026-09-24 08:00 — 2 players2026-09-25 15:00 — 3 players2026-09-26 23:00 — 9 players2026-09-28 06:00 — 1 players2026-09-29 14:00 — 29 players2026-09-30 21:00 — 36 players2026-10-02 05:00 — 36 players2026-10-03 12:00 — 22 players2026-10-04 20:00 — 33 players2026-10-06 04:00 — 32 players2026-10-07 11:00 — 9 players2026-10-08 19:00 — 13 players2026-10-10 03:00 — 13 players2026-10-11 10:00 — 54 players2026-10-12 18:00 — 66 players2026-10-14 01:00 — 12 players2026-10-14 17:00 — 38 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
950Jun 2017Aug 2026Jun 2017 — avg 0 · peak 0Oct 2017 — avg 0 · peak 1Dec 2017 — avg 0 · peak 1Apr 2018 — avg 0 · peak 1Jun 2018 — avg 0 · peak 1Nov 2018 — avg 0 · peak 1Mar 2019 — avg 0 · peak 1May 2019 — avg 0 · peak 1Aug 2019 — avg 0 · peak 1May 2020 — avg 3 · peak 152Jul 2020 — avg 1 · peak 5Sep 2020 — avg 1 · peak 5Nov 2020 — avg 1 · peak 4Aug 2021 — avg 52 · peak 311Oct 2021 — avg 4 · peak 16Dec 2021 — avg 2 · peak 9Feb 2022 — avg 2 · peak 6Apr 2022 — avg 2 · peak 8Jun 2022 — avg 1 · peak 6Aug 2022 — avg 2 · peak 6Oct 2022 — avg 2 · peak 5Dec 2022 — avg 1 · peak 4Mar 2023 — avg 1 · peak 4Aug 2023 — avg 2 · peak 4Jul 2024 — avg 1 · peak 4Dec 2025 — avg 95 · peak 256Feb 2026 — avg 49 · peak 96Apr 2026 — avg 48 · peak 174Jun 2026 — avg 26 · peak 77Aug 2026 — avg 39 · peak 78
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$7.99$0.002017-09-162026-07-092017-09-16 — best price $7.192017-11-28 — best price $7.992018-02-15 — best price $1.592018-06-21 — best price $0.742018-11-01 — best price $2.992018-12-20 — best price $0.592019-02-11 — best price $2.992019-07-10 — best price $0.592019-11-01 — best price $2.992019-12-19 — best price $0.502020-01-27 — best price $2.992020-07-13 — best price $0.502020-11-02 — best price $2.992020-12-22 — best price $0.502021-02-15 — best price $2.992021-06-18 — best price $0.502021-08-19 — best price $2.992021-11-01 — best price $2.992022-01-27 — best price $0.502022-04-24 — best price $2.992022-08-29 — best price $1.992022-11-22 — best price $0.492023-02-02 — best price $1.992023-04-17 — best price $0.372023-07-13 — best price $1.992023-11-21 — best price $0.552024-02-29 — best price $1.992024-05-13 — best price $0.592024-07-22 — best price $1.992024-11-27 — best price $0.552025-03-20 — best price $1.992025-09-25 — best price $0.552025-12-05 — best price $1.992026-03-19 — best price $0.552026-07-09 — best price $1.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

20
achievements tracked
81.4%
earned "Birth"
20%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportFamily Sharing

10 supported languages: English, German, Simplified Chinese, French, Italian, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Turkish

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)2,98919%20

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

Player tags

2DActionArcadeCasualFlightSurrealAbstractColorfulRelaxingDifficult

Census log

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

Recent updates

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Similarity via IGDB.

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