# the static speaks my name

Summer DB entity ID: 3c5bfd68\-f4cf\-4781\-91ea\-cc380e9a294e

Steam App ID: 387860

A dark/sad/weird/funny first person exploration game\. You play a man on his last night alive as he obsesses over a mysterious painting\. More of a story game in that it emphasizes mood and character over gameplay\. Takes ten minutes to play and has "next\-gen" features like a shrimp tank with pet shrimp\.  Be warned, the game contains explicit handling of suicide\.   For people that have played the game elsewhere, this is the original version, not an expansion or HD remake\.   Follow me on twitter at @jessebarksdale\. I post updates about new things there\.

## Game information

- Type: game

- Developer: the whale husband

- Publisher: the whale husband

- Release date: Aug 10, 2015

- Coming soon: false

- Free to play: true

- Parent Steam app: Not collected

- Genres: Adventure, Indie, RPG, Free To Play

- Categories: Single\-player, Family Sharing

- Platforms: windows, mac, linux

- Website: Not collected

- Screenshots: https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/387860/ss\_99e0177ab749963028547a7d6b082e216f3928d5\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1755360930, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/387860/ss\_f5954bc1982bcbb442e5c2621f506bbce5e672ae\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1755360930, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/387860/ss\_2149a9f4ac28ab894fb3fe9e9fba321a5da92747\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1755360930, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/387860/ss\_81898451be4dcae9cf3218fa08bc62541ef609fa\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1755360930, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/387860/ss\_d66f7a824c74032f0d47050f4af9150e6da630ee\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1755360930

- Price: Not collected

- Price country: Not collected

## Observed metrics

- Current players: 1

- Steam review count: 5803

- Steam positive reviews: 4752

- Steam negative reviews: 1051

- Steam positive percentage: 81.88867826986042%

- Summer DB rating: No native votes

Review filters: \{"language":"all","review\_type":"all","purchase\_type":"all","filter\_offtopic\_activity":0\}

## Player history

[Seven-day chart data as Markdown](/api/v1/entities/3c5bfd68-f4cf-4781-91ea-cc380e9a294e/player-metrics?days=7&format=markdown) · [JSON](/api/v1/entities/3c5bfd68-f4cf-4781-91ea-cc380e9a294e/player-metrics?days=7)

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\-28T16:58:32\.455488\+00:00

- Details observed: 2026\-09\-22T05:46:46\.227161\+00:00

- Player count observed: 2026\-09\-22T05:46:47\.500313\+00:00

- Reviews observed: 2026\-09\-22T05:46:47\.244692\+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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