# The Sea Eternal

Summer DB entity ID: 6c45ddc0\-7117\-4f64\-8366\-2ec04515bc00

Steam App ID: 463320

In the enchanted underwater City of Glass, what will you sacrifice for immortality? Love, memories, freedom? Will you take freedom from others to win your heart's desire? Dive into a world of mermaids, mermen, and other merfolk, where every character has secrets, and nothing is what it seems\!  "The Sea Eternal" is an epic interactive fantasy novel by Lynnea Glasser, author of "Creatures Such as We" and "Coloratura," winner of the 2013 Interactive Fiction Competition and numerous XYZZY awards\. Your choices control the story\. It's entirely text\-based\-\-283,000 words, without graphics or sound effects\-\-and fueled by the vast, unstoppable power of your imagination\.  The whales have granted the merfolk eternal life, and asked you for so little in return\. Defense against the giant squid\. Secrecy from humans\. But when a rogue mermaid tries to destroy the gift of immortality, ancient secrets rise from the depths, and the delicate balance of society rests in your hands\.  Will you fight to protect your immortality, or surrender it for a higher cause? Will you choose sides in the neverending war between the whales and the giant squid? Will your undying love save the City of Glass, or destroy it?     Decide what being a hero means to you, with over 10 unique endings    Choose your own mer\-self, with multiple gender and orientation options available    Play alongside similarly diverse characters    Romance human visitors to the underwater city    Earn the trust of nuanced characters    Break their trust    Pick up the pieces of your shattered relationships

## Game information

- Type: game

- Developer: Choice of Games

- Publisher: Choice of Games

- Release date: Apr 22, 2016

- Coming soon: false

- Free to play: false

- Parent Steam app: Not collected

- Genres: Adventure, Indie, RPG

- Categories: Single\-player, Steam Achievements, Captions available, Steam Cloud, Family Sharing

- Platforms: windows, mac, linux

- Website: Not collected

- Screenshots: https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/463320/ss\_6309f0515afba896a818ea588e4af51675fa4af4\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1734114602, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/463320/ss\_8c46ac2b8c626b2ec31aa07b9402251d929177bd\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1734114602, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/463320/ss\_f7b8ab51911c3f33ec13e4bf5bf0ca94efb8de3c\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1734114602, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/463320/ss\_9c944e3215d4fd9bbff5668263cd8a44c5c74259\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1734114602, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/463320/ss\_12c20f188eac6f5c98e5358a2c4f7c08ddccdf93\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1734114602

- Price: 699 minor units USD; discount 0%

- Price country: US

## Observed metrics

- Current players: 0

- Steam review count: 26

- Steam positive reviews: 12

- Steam negative reviews: 14

- Steam positive percentage: 46.15384615384615%

- 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/6c45ddc0-7117-4f64-8366-2ec04515bc00/player-metrics?days=7&format=markdown) · [JSON](/api/v1/entities/6c45ddc0-7117-4f64-8366-2ec04515bc00/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\-24T19:57:04\.362365\+00:00

- Details observed: 2026\-09\-22T10:38:48\.096507\+00:00

- Player count observed: 2026\-09\-22T10:38:51\.459629\+00:00

- Reviews observed: 2026\-09\-22T10:38:51\.128066\+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.

[Steam store](https://store.steampowered.com/app/463320/) · [JSON](/api/v1/games/6c45ddc0-7117-4f64-8366-2ec04515bc00)