# A Study in Steampunk: Choice by Gaslight

Summer DB entity ID: 740ccbe9\-292b\-4bdf\-aca0\-bfe4d086c1b3

Steam App ID: 421630

Steam\-powered mechs meet forbidden sorcery\! Inspired by Sherlock Holmes, Dracula, Jekyll & Hyde, and Jack the Ripper, "A Study in Steampunk: Choice by Gaslight" is an epic 277,000\-word interactive mystery novel by Heather Albano, co\-author of "Choice of Broadsides," "Choice of Zombies," and "Choice of Romance: Affairs of the Court\." Your choices control the story\. It's entirely text\-based\-\-without graphics or sound effects\-\-and fueled by the vast, unstoppable power of your imagination\.  The game is afoot\! In a world of gaslit streets, mysteriously long\-lived foreign nobles, and master criminals, will you defend your Empire from spies or overthrow it from within? Advocate science and reason or learn forbidden magic? Romance men, women, both, or neither? End as a healer, a freedom fighter, a vigilante, or a traitor? The Fate Of the Empire Is In Your hands\!     Solve mysteries, hunt criminals, and match wits with enemy spies\.    Defend your homeland from the machinations of a master criminal and the conspiracies of the evil Vlaski Empire\.    Search for the truth about the sorcerers that reigned before the age of steam\.    Build deep friendships, acquire powerful enemies, and perhaps even find true love\.    Explore all the dark corners of a gaslit, fog\-shrouded city…and unearth all its secrets\.

## Game information

- Type: game

- Developer: Hosted Games

- Publisher: Hosted Games

- Release date: Nov 20, 2015

- Coming soon: false

- Free to play: false

- Parent Steam app: Not collected

- Genres: 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/421630/ss\_e79d2fefadb3b919c307c35714e08ecdbc968cdc\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1734026598, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/421630/ss\_74dda55f9a14f7de9976076b2b2aaf59c41ffc50\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1734026598, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/421630/ss\_990e9b6ddef69e03f5a4aa62716a2446ee191189\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1734026598, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/421630/ss\_b9b0a870d40e4ac792617b8f244f9ce28798d43b\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1734026598, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/421630/ss\_59edc857fdf78872e99d34b018e9b3190e6eb0cc\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1734026598

- Price: 699 minor units USD; discount 0%

- Price country: US

## Observed metrics

- Current players: 0

- Steam review count: 178

- Steam positive reviews: 170

- Steam negative reviews: 8

- Steam positive percentage: 95.50561797752809%

- 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/740ccbe9-292b-4bdf-aca0-bfe4d086c1b3/player-metrics?days=7&format=markdown) · [JSON](/api/v1/entities/740ccbe9-292b-4bdf-aca0-bfe4d086c1b3/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\-22T08:01:19\.432699\+00:00

- Player count observed: 2026\-09\-22T08:01:20\.826604\+00:00

- Reviews observed: 2026\-09\-22T08:01:20\.416516\+00:00

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Native rating methodology: \{"count":0,"average":null,"entityId":"740ccbe9\-292b\-4bdf\-aca0\-bfe4d086c1b3","revision":0,"observedAt":null,"methodology":"arithmetic\-v1","distribution":\[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0\]\}

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/421630/) · [JSON](/api/v1/games/740ccbe9-292b-4bdf-aca0-bfe4d086c1b3)