# The Whisperer in Darkness

Summer DB entity ID: 4b1123ec\-16d4\-4bf1\-869f\-6fba003e3d56

Steam App ID: 435000

Black Lives Matter\.  A portion of all proceeds from the Whisperer in Darkness since November 2024 will be donated to the Marsha P\. Johnson Institute\.      Note: The Whisperer in Darkness is a short, focused experience which takes under an hour for a full playthrough\. The story has no branching choices, and only one ending\.     Rumors resurface\. Legends are resurrected\.   The Whisperer in Darkness is a visual novel based on the cosmic horror story by H\.P\. Lovecraft\. Play as Alex N\. Wilmarth, skeptic and professor at Miskatonic University, as you unravel the hideous secrets centered at a secluded farm in the hills of Vermont, coming ever closer to mortal peril\.      8 chapters of authentic Lovecraftian horror\.   Experience a linear story through painted illustrations, ASCII art, atmospheric sound effects, an unsettling musical score, and frantic email correspondence with a conspiracy theorist who might be a little too close to the truth\. No guns, no fighting\. Just you, alone to discover what lies hidden in the world you thought you knew\. Once you find the truth, can you ever go back?

## Game information

- Type: game

- Developer: NQNStudios

- Publisher: NQNStudios

- Release date: Oct 18, 2016

- Coming soon: false

- Free to play: false

- Parent Steam app: Not collected

- Genres: Adventure, Casual, Indie

- Categories: Single\-player, Captions available, Family Sharing

- Platforms: windows, mac, linux

- Website: Not collected

- Screenshots: https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/435000/ss\_7505790e6c3dcad5e1af0d627d4cbee243991316\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1732727344, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/435000/ss\_d8ed2b790a2610b5575675c923109a4c47b8f660\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1732727344, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/435000/ss\_ddb8d7fb48bc8c8d5b38da5b59b7e0f4f2484ce0\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1732727344, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/435000/ss\_d68ba2b9fc0fc92949731373196a400202aee256\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1732727344, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/435000/ss\_9fd6dabc98c27f0c278edef29481c3cbd3238dc2\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1732727344, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/435000/ss\_808424bde86aa62bd4e7e612cfa582a6c07e007d\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1732727344, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/435000/ss\_0218fc36ee3c68ef534703e8b6fe32427583da22\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1732727344

- Price: 150 minor units USD; discount 0%

- Price country: US

## Observed metrics

- Current players: 0

- Steam review count: 45

- Steam positive reviews: 37

- Steam negative reviews: 8

- Steam positive percentage: 82.22222222222223%

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

- Details observed: 2026\-09\-22T09:06:38\.237142\+00:00

- Player count observed: 2026\-09\-22T09:06:39\.723949\+00:00

- Reviews observed: 2026\-09\-22T09:06:39\.455399\+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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