# Actual Sunlight

Summer DB entity ID: 20f7de5a\-74bd\-4cec\-872e\-505fa0e7f6f1

Steam App ID: 288040

“I know what you’re thinking: Why keep getting up, day in and day out, even though your life is going nowhere?”    Notorious:  Widely considered to be one of the bleakest and best\-written experiences in indie gaming,  Actual Sunlight  challenges you to confront the life of Evan Winter: An overweight, lonely and severely depressed young professional\.   Fear the words, not the reading:  Presented almost entirely in text, a mixture of sharp observation and pitch black humor captures your interest from provocative beginning to shattering conclusion\.   Prepare yourself:  Actual Sunlight is a uniquely unforgettable adventure that will etch itself into you as one of the most difficult, haunting and beautiful experiences you have ever had as a gamer\. Key Features    An intense, heartbreaking story with themes of video game addiction, unsatisfying work and miserable solitude\.   Beautiful, original pixel and CG artwork invokes the streets, offices and sanctuaries of Toronto, Canada\.   Dark and moody original music sets a proper tone for the brutal indifference of real life\.   Important Notice  Due to explicit language, Actual Sunlight is not appropriate for players under the age of 18\.  It also deals with extremely mature themes, including depression and thoughts of suicide\. Similar to other forms of art that tackle these issues, Actual Sunlight can be an extremely powerful emotional experience – before downloading it, please first consider what your reaction to a book, film or piece of music in a similar vein might be\.  For immediate updates on the game, please follow Will O'Neill on Twitter:

## Game information

- Type: game

- Developer: WZOGI

- Publisher: WZOGI

- Release date: Apr 3, 2014

- Coming soon: false

- Free to play: false

- Parent Steam app: Not collected

- Genres: Adventure, Indie

- Categories: Single\-player, Steam Achievements, Steam Trading Cards, Captions available, Partial Controller Support, Family Sharing

- Platforms: windows, mac

- Website: Not collected

- Screenshots: https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/288040/ss\_0c937436222a0b5d7aee226d9f18d6dc2bca4f54\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1645837818, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/288040/ss\_ffc6a92079a9894882e89f90cb13d670de07f637\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1645837818, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/288040/ss\_9ca08526a738b737abdcc040388269f91ecc3d1d\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1645837818, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/288040/ss\_49a5cb8b773669282ff6f6e19d56806022bd85e4\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1645837818, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/288040/ss\_f679af868cf26a70be05f86d91209dad1f948c94\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1645837818, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/288040/ss\_61db397603d2bf8992501d36d76d2948d040b06e\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1645837818

- Price: 499 minor units USD; discount 0%

- Price country: US

## Observed metrics

- Current players: 0

- Steam review count: 617

- Steam positive reviews: 459

- Steam negative reviews: 158

- Steam positive percentage: 74.39222042139384%

- Summer DB rating: No native votes

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## Player history

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Chart values are hourly observed maxima. The sampled 24-hour peak and missing intervals carry explicit coverage; history before collection is unknown.

## Sources and freshness

- Catalog membership: store\_catalog

- Catalog observed: 2026\-09\-24T19:57:04\.362365\+00:00

- Details observed: 2026\-09\-21T23:17:32\.195178\+00:00

- Player count observed: 2026\-09\-21T23:17:33\.781443\+00:00

- Reviews observed: 2026\-09\-21T23:17:33\.216951\+00:00

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Steam reviews are not Summer DB votes. Missing data is not zero. Player counts are observations, not historical peaks. A supplemental record does not establish that a game was delisted.

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