# Shrinking Pains

Summer DB entity ID: b69b86f9\-0b95\-4067\-b722\-ceab15031546

Steam App ID: 839560

Did your ceiling always look like that?  Your vision peels at the edges, folding in\. Everything is white, empty\. You spend a day seeing how many coins you can fit into the hollows above your collarbones\.   You wonder how long it will take until there is nothing left of you to touch\.    Overview  Made in 48 hours for the Global Game Jam 2018, Shrinking Pains is a short narrative experience that explores a semi\-autobiographical struggle with anorexia\.   Story  Play as a sufferer of anorexia as they navigate their life and relationships\.   Features     Choose your partner preference before you play\.    Strong black and white visuals\.    Immersive original soundtrack\.    Multiple endings\.    Explores mental health\.    Narrative driven visual novel\.    Characters      Isabella is a gentle girl with a wicked sense of humour\. She is a professional violinist with a great love of sitcoms\.        Taylor is prickly young man with a warm heart\. He works as a software engineer by day and sells his knitting on Etsy in his spare time\.        Yuuto has been your best friend for years and put up with your emotional baggage as long as he's known you\. He's reliable, dependable and can't text to save his life\.        Vivienne's claw\-like nails chime against her wineglass when she's talking\. They leave long red marks against your skin as she pulls you to the door\.\.\.       Hunter looks good smoking in his leather jacket\. When he puts his hand on your neck you don't know if you feel excited or scared\.\.\.    Content Warning  Shrinking Pains deals with potentially distressing themes of mental illness and destructive behaviour\. Be warned that some of the content is fairly graphic and may be upsetting to some players\.   Cover art by Emily Chew

## Game information

- Type: game

- Developer: Bedtime Phobias

- Publisher: Bedtime Phobias

- Release date: Apr 27, 2018

- Coming soon: false

- Free to play: true

- Parent Steam app: Not collected

- Genres: Free To Play, Indie

- Categories: Single\-player, Family Sharing

- Platforms: windows

- Website: Not collected

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- Price: Not collected

- Price country: Not collected

## Observed metrics

- Current players: 0

- Steam review count: 226

- Steam positive reviews: 193

- Steam negative reviews: 33

- Steam positive percentage: 85.39823008849558%

- Summer DB rating: No native votes

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## Player history

[Seven-day chart data as Markdown](/api/v1/entities/b69b86f9-0b95-4067-b722-ceab15031546/player-metrics?days=7&format=markdown) · [JSON](/api/v1/entities/b69b86f9-0b95-4067-b722-ceab15031546/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\-23T12:01:03\.52631\+00:00

- Player count observed: 2026\-09\-23T12:01:04\.840988\+00:00

- Reviews observed: 2026\-09\-23T12:01:04\.567459\+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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