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You Shouldn't Be Here cover art

You Shouldn't Be Here

Doomster Entertainment · 2025-07-01

Steam

AdventureIndie

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: First person, Text

Releases: Jul 01, 2025 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

This short psychedelic visual novel takes place in a strange world inhabited by harrowing creatures shunned by the light. You’ll meet someone who has made this world their own, and in doing so, learn the reason why you shouldn't be there.

You Shouldn't Be Here is an Adventure, Indie game released in 2025, priced at $1.99, with a Very Positive review sentiment (90% of 110 reviews).— census verdict as of 2026-10-16

90%
positive of 110 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$1.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 26 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~3/week).
  • · Review velocity up 86% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 38% of 29,640 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 2.2k–5.0k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 110 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

lowest across shops (ITAD)$1.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $0.69 at Steam (2026-08-31)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $1.99 · on sale 11 of 22 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
121220252026Week of 2025-07-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2025-07-08: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-07-15: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-07-22: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-07-22: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-29: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-08-05: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-08-12: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-08-19: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-08-19: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-08-26: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-02: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-09-09: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-09: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-09-16: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-23: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-09-30: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-10-07: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-10-14: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-10-21: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-25: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-16: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-12-16: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-30: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-06: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-27: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-03: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-03-10: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-17: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-03-17: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-24: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-31: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-31: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-12: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-05-19: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-05-26: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-16: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-23: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-07-07: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-07-14: 8 positiveWeek of 2026-07-14: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-07-21: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-08-04: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-08-18: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-25: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-09-08: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$1.99$0.692025-07-012026-10-082025-07-01 — best price $1.792025-07-08 — best price $1.992025-09-06 — best price $1.592025-09-13 — best price $1.992025-09-29 — best price $1.592025-10-06 — best price $1.992025-10-27 — best price $1.492025-11-03 — best price $1.992025-12-08 — best price $1.392025-12-15 — best price $1.992025-12-18 — best price $1.372026-01-05 — best price $1.992026-01-19 — best price $1.192026-01-26 — best price $1.992026-03-02 — best price $1.092026-03-09 — best price $1.992026-03-19 — best price $0.992026-03-26 — best price $1.992026-05-11 — best price $0.892026-05-18 — best price $1.992026-06-25 — best price $0.792026-07-09 — best price $1.992026-07-12 — best price $0.772026-07-26 — best price $1.992026-08-31 — best price $0.692026-09-07 — best price $1.992026-10-01 — best price $0.692026-10-08 — best price $1.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

9
achievements tracked
86.9%
earned "It's Just Tire-d"
66.2%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportColor AlternativesCustom Volume ControlsKeyboard Only OptionMouse Only OptionPlayable without Timed InputSave AnytimeSteam Cloud1 DLC

1 supported languages: English

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2025-07-01 (Steam store data)

Census log

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

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