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Wire Lips cover art

Wire Lips

AIHASTO · Volens Nolens Games · 2020-01-17

SteamPlayStation Store

AdventureIndie

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Third person

Releases: Jan 20, 2020 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Sep 14, 2023 (Nintendo Switch), Sep 15, 2023 (PlayStation 4)

Leta’s life changed in one moment. She and her friend Lina found an old music box in the mountains... and soon Lina disappeared, leaving behind only a photograph and the ominous music box. Uncover the secrets in atmospheric third-person horror game.

Wire Lips is an Adventure and Indie game released in 2020, priced at $9.99, with an estimated 20,000 to 50,000 owners and a Very Positive review sentiment (87% of 472 reviews).

0
playing now
87%
positive of 472 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
70/100
IGDB user rating (2 ratings)
2h
to beat · completionist 3h
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$9.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 06:00 UTC (census sample)

Leta’s life changed in one short moment when fate lead her to a mysterious artifact. Leta went for a walk in the mountains near her hometown with her friend Lina. They were taking photos of nature when they stumbled upon an old music box. Lina decided to take the strange item home: nobody needs it anyway, right? Soon she went missing leaving behind only a photo and the ominous music box. Leta has to uncover the horrifying mysteries of the ancient artifact...(Storyline via IGDB)

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 54 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~7/week).
  • · Review velocity down 26% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 20% of 28,739 Adventure games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-01

Estimated sales: 9.4k–21k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 472 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.49 at Steam (2023-10-26)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $9.99 · on sale 9 of 18 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
515120202026Week of 2020-01-01: 40 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-02-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-03-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 51 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 2 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

302026-09-15 07:00 — 1 players2026-09-16 15:00 — 0 players2026-09-17 23:00 — 1 players2026-09-19 06:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 14:00 — 1 players2026-09-21 21:00 — 1 players2026-09-23 05:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 12:00 — 1 players2026-09-25 20:00 — 0 players2026-09-27 03:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 11:00 — 1 players2026-09-29 18:00 — 0 players2026-10-01 02:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 09:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 17:00 — 3 players2026-10-05 01:00 — 2 players2026-10-06 09:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 16:00 — 1 players2026-10-09 00:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 07:00 — 1 players2026-10-11 15:00 — 0 players2026-10-12 22:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 06:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$9.99$0.492020-01-172026-08-052020-01-17 — best price $8.092020-04-06 — best price $8.992022-01-27 — best price $2.692022-09-26 — best price $8.992022-12-22 — best price $4.492023-02-13 — best price $8.992023-05-14 — best price $4.492023-08-17 — best price $8.992023-11-02 — best price $4.992023-12-21 — best price $0.492024-02-19 — best price $0.992024-03-21 — best price $9.992024-06-05 — best price $0.992024-07-11 — best price $9.992024-09-22 — best price $0.792024-11-19 — best price $9.992024-12-19 — best price $0.792025-01-22 — best price $9.992025-03-24 — best price $0.992025-05-21 — best price $9.992025-07-25 — best price $0.992025-09-21 — best price $9.992025-10-22 — best price $0.992025-12-17 — best price $9.992026-01-16 — best price $0.792026-03-15 — best price $9.992026-04-14 — best price $0.792026-07-09 — best price $9.992026-08-05 — best price $9.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerFamily Sharing

5 supported languages: English, Russian, Traditional Chinese, Portuguese - Portugal, Turkish

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
PS4 (PlayStation)22289%22
PS4 (PlayStation)15186%22
PS4 (PlayStation)7190%22
PS4 (PlayStation)5491%22
Switch (Nintendo)10%0

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

Player tags

GoreAnimeIndieHorrorAdventureThird PersonFemale ProtagonistPsychological Horror

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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