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The Great Perhaps is a time travel puzzle game about an astronaut returning to Earth destroyed by natural cataclysms. There, among the ruins he finds an unusual artifact — an old lantern, in the light of which you can see glimpses of another time and travel to the past.

Release DateAug 14, 2019
Price$ 9.99  Top 30%
Steam Rating (Steam Purchases / All)78.6% (mostly positive) / 78.9%
Steam DB Rating (Steam Purchases / All)74.3% / 74.9%
Reviews (Steam Purchases / All)560  Top 20% / 678  Top 20%
Curators27 reviews  Top 25%
Median Play Time3 hours
Play Time per Dollar18 minutes  Bottom 35%
Followers2.5K  Top 25%
Owners± 61.4K  Top 20%
Copies Sold± 17.4K  Top 25%
Gross Revenue ($)± 55.5K  Top 30%

Rating and Reviews (Monthly)
  

Chart showing the monthly evolution of The Great Perhaps steam rating, positive and negative reviews.

Here you can see The Great Perhaps's Steam rating and reviews between August 2019 and December 2023. Steam's rating is in a range going from 81.8% (August 2019) to 73.7% (May 2020).

The 678 reviews Top 15% suggest that The Great Perhaps might be an indie success or even a small AAA success. There is a peak in July 2020 that suggests a major update or discount.

Review Languages
 

Donut graph showing review languages for The Great Perhaps and the proportion of players they represent.

This donut chart displays the languages of The Great Perhaps's reviewers. The most popular language is Russian (47%), followed by English (24%). The player's languages are well diversified, with 21 different languages appearing in the reviews. The game is translated in 9 languages, which is nice.

Time Played

Chart displaying The Great Perhaps percentiles of time played for positive, negative, and early access reviews.

This chart displays the number of hours played in The Great Perhaps depending if the reviewer left a positive or a negative review. The time played is short, reaching only 253 minutes in the 80th percentile. Some players enjoy short games, but there is always a risk that people will be disapointed.

The median play time for the negative reviews is similar to the median for positive reviews, hinting that there is no significant difference in the player's experience and that is more a question of personal taste.

Players' Feedback

Game's StrengthsGame's Weaknesses
  • positive
  • + Time travel puzzle mechanics.
  • + Artwork.
  • + Soundtrack.
  • + Great storyline
  • + Nice drawing
  • + Full localization. The game has Russian dubbing and text.
  • + Discounts on the game
  • + Achievements
  • + Lots of nice Easter eggs and references to world works
  • + Gamepad support
  • negative
  • - Average story.
  • - Extremely short and repetitive.
  • - Broken quest on the level in the greenhouse. For the task to work correctly, it is recommended to use fertilizers from the past.
  • - There are small bugs.
  • - Lackluster gameplay.
  • - Backtracing puzzles.
  • - Dying from unavoidable/unexpected threats.
  • - Lazy animations.
  • - No real story behind the game.
  • - Unsatisfying ending.

The intention behind these pros & cons isn't to establish a balanced evaluation of the game, but rather to assist developers in identifying enhancement opportunities. The game's rating of 78.6% should be taken into account when assessing them.

Please keep in mind that this list was AI-generated with only a statistical sample of The Great Perhaps's review data that Steam provides. You don't always need to solve every issue. What some players hate might be what your fanbase loves.

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