# A Place, Forbidden

Summer DB entity ID: 650972d2\-09d9\-40d8\-b6b8\-4cf6d7ab00de

Steam App ID: 1333920

NEW FROM THE LIBRARY: THERE SWINGS A SKULL \- GRIM TIDINGS    Existential terror never looked so HOT    A DARK AND EMPTY PLACE    A Place, Forbidden is a first\-person lo\-fi horror\-puzzle game that takes place in a cursed Library\. It is and shall remain completely free, and features a variety of puzzles and no small amount of reading\. Though the notes and books are not always imperative to gameplay, skipping them will detract from the experience\.     AN UNPLANNED STAY    The Library of Ouroboros\. You awaken here with no memory of how you've arrived \- though faint recollections of searching, of the Library's name, stick in your mind like scraps of torn paper\.  The reek of dust, of old wood, and of something\.\.\. more difficult to place hang in the air\. Is that a distant ringing you hear, or merely your imagination? And why do you feel so strange? So hot? Like a pair of eyes \- no, much more than a single pair \- are watching your every movement, reading your every thought, like words on the yellowed pages of an ancient book\.\.\.   A Place, Forbidden was initially released as a demo on the 2020 Haunted PS1 Demo DIsc\.    CREDITS: Conor Walsh, Writing and Design Dennis Müller, Scripting and Design Gábor Papp, 3D Modeling and Materials Aidan Cushing, Scripting

## Game information

- Type: game

- Developer: Poison The Inkwell

- Publisher: Poison The Inkwell

- Release date: Jun 25, 2020

- Coming soon: false

- Free to play: true

- Parent Steam app: Not collected

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

- Categories: Single\-player, Partial Controller Support, Family Sharing

- Platforms: windows

- Website: Not collected

- Screenshots: https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/1333920/ss\_c8dcb3b4ccb1555f537a4683809b81fdace520a5\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1684535776, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/1333920/ss\_523f0c100d003f52069a7b85d555fbb354013822\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1684535776, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/1333920/ss\_b0b6f20d047153434230bd7cb212e088972090c6\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1684535776, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/1333920/ss\_c829d96fc551fe71b6f88676c5e79e4c02db902a\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1684535776, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/1333920/ss\_623e92bf765ac5a40ef0ceed97f05ecd1c278547\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1684535776, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/1333920/ss\_afaa4f6b4cd9288d7aab7e4c1b0fb2c335d0d984\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1684535776

- Price: Not collected

- Price country: Not collected

## Observed metrics

- Current players: 0

- Steam review count: 457

- Steam positive reviews: 387

- Steam negative reviews: 70

- Steam positive percentage: 84.68271334792122%

- 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/650972d2-09d9-40d8-b6b8-4cf6d7ab00de/player-metrics?days=7&format=markdown) · [JSON](/api/v1/entities/650972d2-09d9-40d8-b6b8-4cf6d7ab00de/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\-25T01:24:17\.094211\+00:00

- Player count observed: 2026\-09\-25T01:24:18\.392327\+00:00

- Reviews observed: 2026\-09\-25T01:24:18\.098643\+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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